학제간 융합연구의 정책적 지원 방향

Policy Direction for Interdisciplinary Convergence Research Grants

This paper aims to suggest the policy direction for interdisciplinary convergence research top-down grants. For this purpose, this study conducted a questionnaire survey targeting all researchers and graduate students on enrollment DB of National Research Foundation of Korea within the framework of national current issues and sustainable development, researcher unit size and research supporting period, research fund, and research project evaluation. The main findings of the study are as follows: the enlargement of humanities & social science-based interdisciplinary convergence research grants contributing to the establishment of system solving national current issues such as socioeconomic bipolarization and inequality & lowbirth and aging problems; the priority support of research projects contributing to sustainable development such as those focusing on the securement of future fundamental converging technology, the enhancement of growth potentiality & low-carbon green growth; the reinforcement of research support on medium and large size research projects through medium and long term; the composition of appraisal board including the appropriate experts and the experienced of interdisciplinary convergence research; the emphasis on the evaluation of research conducting capacity of research team and the construction of optimal evaluation stage obtaining procedural rationality.