Department notice

Department notice

  • 2025 Summer/Fall Semester URP Program
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  • 2025-05-16 15:13:44|
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The office of research affairs is operating URP Program that supports KAIST students can do the research under the excellent professors and graduate students.

 

 

1. Research Period: 

   : Jun. 23, 2025 ~ Dec. 19, 2025

 

2. Requirements: 

   A. Undergraduate students enrolled at KAIST (students on leave not eligible).

   B. Students may participate up to two times.

   C. If you are a student on leave who can participate in research starting from the summer semester and are planning to return to school in the fall semester, please contact us by email first.

 

 

3. URP Program Type

   A. Type : Individual Research Project (Single/Team)

   B. Theme Category : Creative Research or Research Participation

 

Individual Research Project

Single

Team

General

Interdisciplinary

Details

Research conducted by individual student

2~3 students gathered to proceed to a single field of study

2~3 students of other departments gathered to proceed to fusion research in two or more field

Credit

URP(A) or URP(B)

URP(A)

Research Topic

Creative Research Project

Research Participation Project

Research theme (idea) proposed by student, and research on proposed topic being conducted for the first time through URP

Students given opportunity to participate in research being conducted by faculty or TA, and to apply basic principles taught in undergraduate courses

 

 

4. Funding Details

(Unit: KRW 1,000)

 

Single

General Team

(Interdisciplinary Team)

Research Fund

2,000

2,500(3,000)

Student

1,000

800/person

Advisor

1,000

T/A

1,000

 

5. How to Apply

   A. Download the research proposal form from this page.

   B. Choose the desired program type and fill out the form.

   C. Submit them* to the Strategic Research Planning Team (sjlilykim@kaist.ac.kr) by 23:59, May 23 (Fri.)

     * Application Form & Consent for Personal Information(Student/Advisor/TA)

   D. The successfully selected applicants will be announced on the KAIST Portal website in the middle of June.

 

6. Others

   - Number of selected projects may vary depending on applications and available budget.

   - If you want to stop the research of URP program, you must return to pay allowances, scholarships and URP funding.

   - After the end of the study, the student must attend the URP workshop. 

   - It is not permitted to participate in the URP program simultaneously with an internship or exchange program.

   - Approximately 60 individual research projects(Single/Team) will be selected. 

     * The final number of projects may change depending on the number of applications received and the evaluation results.

 

 

7. Contact

   : Sujin Kim, Strategic Research Planning Team (sjlilykim@kaist.ac.kr)