Nurturing Talent Sought by Companies and the Future... Dong-Eui University LINC 3.0 Project Group Leads Industry-Academia-Research Cooperation Centered on New Industries

Forming a Consortium with Departments, ICC, Companies, Institutions, and Research Institutes Centered on the Working Group

Promoting Talent Development Education, Corporate Support Projects, Industry-Academia Joint Research, Technology Commerciali

Research equipment established at the Core Research Support Center for Regeneration of Biological Tissues at Dong-Eui University.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] Dong-Eui University (President Han Su-hwan) is a university that is rapidly advancing industry-academia-research cooperation projects in the Busan-Ulsan-Gyeongnam (Bu-Ul-Gyeong) region.

In 2017, Dong-Eui University was selected for the LINC+ project (Leaders in INdustry-university Cooperation+), investing about 20 billion KRW over five years to introduce a convergence-centered collaborative education system. By establishing industry-friendly organizations, infrastructure, and corporate support policies, it strengthened its position as a leader in the Fourth Industrial Revolution among regional universities.

In April of this year, it was selected for the third phase of the Leading University for Industry-Academia-Research Cooperation project (LINC 3.0), hosted by the Ministry of Education and the National Research Foundation of Korea. The goal of this project is to advance workforce development and activate corporate support in line with industry and future societal demands.

From 2022, over six years, it will receive a total of about 24 billion KRW to focus investment on core projects aimed at ‘activating industry-academia cooperation and technology commercialization based on enterprise-department convergence.’ This is also linked to Dong-Eui University’s core strategic task in its Dong-Eui Vision 2025, which is the ‘establishment of an evolved industry-academia cooperation ecosystem.’

To achieve the LINC 3.0 project goal of ‘activating industry-academia cooperation and technology commercialization based on enterprise-department convergence,’ Dong-Eui University is applying a strategic model that further advances its new industry-centered industry-academia-research cooperation brand. Based on a well-structured platform of industry-academia-research cooperation systems, organizations, and performance management, it is conducting customized technology commercialization and advanced workforce training tailored to corporate demands.

Dong-Eui University’s strategy is to create core outcomes centered on WG (Working Group), an industry-academia cooperation community unit organization combining departments, companies, and research institutes.

To this end, the LINC 3.0 project team (Director Lee Im-geon) has established the WG Support Center (Director Heo Kyung-yong) as a core organization to comprehensively support WG activities. WG is Dong-Eui University’s differentiated industry-academia-research linkage model designed to produce expansive industry-academia-research cooperation outcomes in response to internal and external environmental changes such as the Fourth Industrial Revolution and digital transformation.

Through WG, Dong-Eui University’s three engineering colleges?the IT Convergence Components and Materials Engineering College, the ICT Engineering College, and the Engineering College?form consultative bodies with ICC (Industry coupled Cooperation Center), companies, institutions, and research institutes, where converged participating departments by theme promote talent development education based on corporate needs, corporate support projects, joint industry-academia research, technology commercialization, and startups.

To support this, educational infrastructure such as Makersville for prototype production, interactive remote teaching classrooms, and co-teaching classrooms for joint industry-academia team teaching, as well as specialized equipment at the Convergence Components and Bio-Tissue Regeneration Core Research Support Center, have been established.

Additionally, with the launch of the LINC 3.0 project team, Dong-Eui University established the Family Company Cooperation Center (Director Kim Hyun-soo) to expand the technology demand-based corporate support platform.

The Family Company Cooperation Center operates various corporate support programs including discovering new paid family companies, managing the POOL, administrative and financial support, needs matching and feedback, employee training, technology transfer, providing excellent personnel, and linking to national projects.

Lee Im-geon, director of Dong-Eui University’s LINC 3.0 project team, explained, “Dong-Eui University’s paid family companies are managed by a grading system, and from March to December this year, more than 60 companies have joined, realizing sincere networking with Dong-Eui University.”

He added, “The Family Company Cooperation Center is conducting various corporate support programs such as technology transfer, providing excellent personnel, and linking to national projects, and assigns specialized professor mentors by industry to provide support and feedback services that respond to corporate demands.”

Furthermore, paid and free employee training reflecting new industry sector demands has also been promoted. In the first half of 2022, short-term online courses for industry employees were operated in new technology fields such as AI, IoT/AR/VR, big data, and SNS marketing. In the second half, employee training courses focused on innovation in technology development have promoted knowledge sharing and usability enhancement for employees.

Dong-Eui University plans to continuously provide venues for expansion of networks and technology exchange with companies by hosting events such as the Dong-Eui Paid Family Company Festival, joint industry-academia technology development project performance presentations, and Technology Matching Day.

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