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POSCO TJ Park Foundation Selects 33 POSCO Science Fellows

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- Supporting young researchers in the field of basic sciences and applied sciences to become global scientists

- 「POSCO Science Fellowship 」 shows great achievements in creating social value

 

POSCO TJ Park Foundation(Chairperson, Sunuk Kim) has selected 33 ‘2022 POSCO Science Fellows’ who will lead Korea with future advancements in science.

 

POSCO Science Fellow is a program which selects about 30 young and competent ‘post-docs’ and ‘new professors who are doing research in the fields of basic sciences and applied sciences to grow into global scientists. The application was opened for a month in June and after 2 months of evaluation process, the final selection was made.

 

POSCO Science Fellowship is a science research funding program which started in 2009 with the aim to grow talents in the field of science technology, who can lead the future of Korea, by fostering social atmosphere where the importance of basic sciences is newly established and supporting applied sciences which become the foundation for new growth energy in Korea’s industrial technology. The program selects post-docs and new professors who study in 4 areas of basic sciences, which are mathematics, physics, chemistry, life sciences, and 3 areas of applied sciences, which are metals, new materials, and energy resources, in Korean University and research institutes to fund maximum of one hundred million won over two years.

 

Meanwhile, POSCO TJ Park Foundation has participated in a learning community which measures social value of public programs in Korean NGOs and deduced the social value of ‘POSCO Science Fellowship’, which has been funding researchers for 13 years. The result was shared in 「Learning and Practice of Impact Measurement Vol.1」 which was recently published.

 

The NGO social value measurement learning community which POSCO TJ Park Foundation participated in has been operating from last October led by social value researchers under the name of ‘Impact Foundation Learning Community’. The community deduced the research results on the social value measurements of the main programs in 5 of the participating NGOs, which are POSCO TJ Park Foundation, Center for Social Value Enhancement Studies, Future Class Network, The Beautiful Foundation, and T&C Foundation, and published the results in a booklet

 

POSCO TJ Park Foundation performed a survey in the form of interview to the past fellows to find out how helpful POSCO Science Fellowship was academically to measure social value of the program. Also, through analyzing the fellow’s individual research accomplishments, the foundation showed that POSCO Science Fellowship has been creating social value which contributed to the development of basic science in Korea through objective numbers.

 

On the booklet, chairperson Sunuk Kim stated ‘For the past 6 months of measuring the social value of the program, we could see that POSCO Science Fellowship improved the research environment in the field of basic sciences in Korea, boosted researcher’s confidence and expanded their careers, and supported to create research achievements which were academically significant. Overall, we could see that most of the initial goals established at the start of POSCO Science Fellowship were achieved.

 

POSCO TJ Park Foundation plans on continuously pursuing Life with POSCO(the corporate that creates the future together) and Community with POSCO(the corporate that works together with local communities), which are a part of the five brand activities for corporate citizen that capture the essence of a corporate that POSCO TJ Park Foundation pursues, ‘the corporate that you want to be with’.