Naju-si Achieves Honor as the Only Recipient of the 'Good Policy Award' for Lifelong Learning in the Province

[Naju=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yukbong] Naju City, Jeollanam-do, was the only local government in the province to receive the ‘Good Policy Award’ at the ‘1st Republic of Korea Lifelong Learning City Good Policy Awards’ held on the 26th at the Korea Press Center Foreign Correspondents’ Club.

Naju City won the Good Policy Award at the 1st Korea Lifelong Learning City Good Policy Awards.
[Photo by Naju City]

According to the city on the 30th, this award was hosted by the National Lifelong Learning City Council and sponsored by EBS Korea Educational Broadcasting System.

The evaluation was conducted through a contest for excellent policy projects targeting 189 member cities of the National Lifelong Learning City Council, 74 education support offices, and universities and lifelong education-related institutions nationwide.

The council shortlisted 97 policy projects in the first round of screening and, after the second final screening, selected 15 local governments and 5 institutions respectively.

The lifelong learning policy project (name) that Naju City applied for and won is ‘Small Movements Changing the Earth, Eco Changemaker.’

Eco Changemaker, a pilot project supported by the Ministry of Education in 2022, was promoted with the goal of strengthening autonomous capabilities such as discovering environmental and ecological problems, designing solutions, and finding sustainable models for 151 students from 9 schools (2 elementary, 5 middle, and 2 out-of-school).

In particular, before the project was launched, women who had obtained ‘Changemaker’ qualifications through lifelong learning and had experienced career interruptions were invited as instructors, providing opportunities for continuous advanced learning, lesson plan and teaching material development, and education capability assessment, which received high praise during the award evaluation process.

Mayor Yoon Byung-tae said, “Eco Changemaker has become an opportunity for ecological education to preserve the environment for future generations in the era of climate crisis, fostering environmental sensitivity and autonomous future planning capabilities among youth.”

He added, “We will build a broad lifelong learning infrastructure so that all citizens, including highly educated women with career interruptions who worked as instructors, can successfully open their self-development and second chapters of life.”

Meanwhile, the city has enhanced its prestige as a lifelong learning city through three consecutive years of awards, including the Special Award at the 18th Republic of Korea Lifelong Learning Awards in 2021, the Excellence Award in 2022, and this inaugural award.

Naju=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yukbong baekok@asiae.co.kr

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