National Metropolitan University Project Teams Unite for Entrepreneurship Education

7 Metropolitan Area LINC+ Project Groups Unite to Advance Entrepreneurship Education

Including Dongmyung University in Southeast Region, Capital, Chungcheong, Honam-Jeju, and Daegyeong-Gangwon Areas

On the 22nd, seven universities in the ultra-wide area, including Dongmyeong University in the Southeast region, signed an agreement to advance entrepreneurship education and officially launched the LINC+ project.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] Seven universities spanning metropolitan areas such as the Seoul metropolitan area and the Southeast region have come together with the goal of entrepreneurship education.

The LINC+ project groups of seven universities across ultra-wide regions?including Dongmyung University in Busan (President Jeong Hong-seop), the Seoul metropolitan area, Chungcheong region, Honam-Jeju region, Daegyeong-Gangwon region, and the Southeast region?signed a "Business Agreement for the Development of Ultra-Wide Area Entrepreneurship Education" on February 19, setting sail toward joint projects.

The signing ceremony, held at 4 p.m. both online and offline at the Shilla Hotel's Yeongbingwan in Seoul, was attended by the heads of each university's project group: Park Eun-joo from Gyeongnam University, Kim Young-chul from Gunsan University, Kim Joon-dae from Dongguk University, Shin Dong-seok from Dongmyung University, Jeong Hyeong-seon from Yonsei University (Wonju Campus), Yoo Jae-soo from Chungbuk National University, and Lee Seok-won from Korea Polytechnic University.

The seven universities' LINC+ project groups?Gyeongnam University, Gunsan University, Dongguk University, Dongmyung University, Yonsei University (Wonju Campus), Chungbuk National University, and Korea Polytechnic University?agreed to join forces for the mutual development of student entrepreneurship education.

They plan to jointly support the continuous dissemination of achievements in university entrepreneurship education through collaborative responses to COVID-19.

These universities will establish an ultra-wide regional entrepreneurship education cooperation system to collaborate on fostering future entrepreneurial talent leading the Fourth Industrial Revolution era through initiatives such as △operating entrepreneurship-friendly academic systems in connection, △sharing excellent entrepreneurship education content, △jointly hosting entrepreneurship education programs, and △strengthening LINC+ project alliances.

In response to the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, they plan to create synergy in entrepreneurship education among universities by jointly developing and operating top-level online and offline entrepreneurship education programs in Korea.

Each project group hopes to create a leading model that significantly contributes to spreading a challenging student entrepreneurship culture.

Shin Dong-seok, head of Dongmyung University’s LINC+ project group, stated emphatically, “These seven universities will play a major role not only in creating synergy in entrepreneurship education between universities through joint development and operation of COVID-19 response entrepreneurship education programs but also in establishing a model for spreading a student entrepreneurship culture characterized by a spirit of challenge and entrepreneurship.”

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