A Study on the Improvement and Revitalization of General Center for Convergence Research Services based on the Integrated Research Center’s Recognition Survey

Abstract

In this study, the Commission sought to investigate the progress and value changes of convergence researchers participating in the Interdisciplinary Research Support Project of the Korea Research Foundation along with the participation and satisfaction of HubCon regularly held at the Center for Convergence Research based on the researchers' request to promote the improvement direction of services at the Center for Convergence Research in the future and the development of the humanities-based Convergence Research. Briefly summarizing the results of the study is as follows. First, overall satisfaction with HubCon was lower in 2019 than in 2018, indicating the need to redefine the overall meaning and direction of each event held at the Convergence Research Center and set up a window to reflect the opinions of convergence researchers in the process of preparing the event. Second, it is analyzed that the time has come for the reorganization of the support services of the Convergence Research Center based on the needs and demands of the convergence researchers. Third, as the convergence research center has been frequently changed to various research institutes, it needs a stable player who can continuously supplement new services on top of regularized services. Fourth, it is required to provide differentiated support according to the timing of the research by convergence researchers and the problem of occurrence. Fifth, convergence research can create new convergence value by supporting it. Sixth, it is affecting the perception of convergence researchers involved in convergence research. As a center that supports convergence research projects, we should consider what convergence researchers call a “network” really means.