To Prevent Research from Stopping Due to Childbirth and Parenting… Ministry of Science and ICT to Provide Additional Support for 100 Substitute Personnel

The Ministry of Science and ICT is launching assist for substitute personnel at analysis websites to scale back profession gaps attributable to childbirth and parenting. This initiative goals to stop profession interruptions for researchers and to foster an setting the place analysis and parenting may be balanced.

The Ministry of Science and ICT and the Korea Foundation for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology (WISET) introduced on the sixteenth that they’re recruiting taking part establishments for the second half of the 2026 “R&D Substitute Personnel Utilization Support Program in the Field of Science and Technology.”

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This program supplies wage assist for substitute or extra analysis workers at analysis establishments, enabling researchers on maternity or parental depart, decreased working hours, or versatile work preparations to proceed their R&D actions. Since its launch in 2018, a complete of 987 substitute personnel have been supported.

The scale of this 12 months’s program is 233 folks in whole, with roughly 100 extra positions to be supported by this second half recruitment.

Support Ranges from Substitute Personnel for Researchers on Leave to Research Assistants for Parenting Researchers

The program operates in two classes: “Support for Researchers on Leave or Reduced Hours” and “Support for Parenting Researchers.”

First, analysis establishments that rent new substitute personnel to cowl the work of researchers on maternity or parental depart, or these working decreased hours, will obtain wage assist. Bachelor’s and grasp’s diploma holders can obtain up to 21 million received per 12 months, and PhD holders up to 23 million received per 12 months, with assist obtainable for up to 15 months relying on the interval of depart or decreased work.

Support can also be supplied when extra analysis workers are employed to allow researchers with youngsters below 12 years outdated to proceed their work. Intern researchers can obtain up to 10 million received per 12 months for up to one 12 months, and PhD researchers can obtain up to 30 million received per 12 months for up to two years.

Institutions wishing to take part in this system could apply by the designated regional places of work by 6:00 p.m. on July 13. Institutions which can be unable to full the hiring course of in the course of the software interval should still apply as “institutions planning to hire,” and the federal government additionally plans to conduct extra recruitment in September.

Lee Junbae, Director-General for Future Human Resources Policy on the Ministry of Science and ICT, said, “Career interruptions among parenting researchers are not just a personal loss, but can also weaken national science and technology competitiveness. We will continue to expand field-oriented support to ensure that outstanding science and technology talent do not have to give up research due to childbirth and parenting.”

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