Busan City Hosts '2023 Busan Regional Innovation Platform Joint Seminar'

2 PM on the 23rd at Avani Central Busan Hotel, Over 150 Attendees from City, Universities, and Companies

Local Governments, Universities, Companies, and Public Institutions... Discussion on Promotion Plans for Busan Regional Innovation Platform Pro

Busan City will hold the ‘Busan Regional Innovation Platform Joint Seminar’ at 2 p.m. on the 23rd at the Avani Central Busan Hotel Avani Hall.

This seminar was organized as a communication opportunity to share the goals and progress of the Busan Regional Innovation Platform project, which will lead innovation in Busan City and local universities, and to discuss tasks that need to be cooperatively addressed to establish a Busan-type shared university model and create a foundation for performance achievement.

About 150 participants, including Lee Seong-gwon, Deputy Mayor for Economic Affairs, Director of Youth Industry-Academia Cooperation, and other Busan City officials, as well as representatives from local universities, Busan Technopark, and the Office of Education, will attend. The agenda includes ▲ University Education Innovation Promotion Plan ▲ Core Field-Specific Tasks ▲ Regional Innovation Autonomous Tasks ▲ Panel Discussion.

Kim Seok-su, General Operations Center Director of the Busan Regional Innovation Platform, will provide an overall explanation of the Regional Innovation Project (RIS), followed by presentations of task-specific promotion plans by the heads of the three core task project teams, and then a panel discussion will take place.

The discussion panel includes Nam Jeong-eun, Director of Youth Industry-Academia Cooperation; Won Gwang-hae, Director of Regional Industry-Academia Cooperation Group; Jeong Jin, Head of University Education Innovation Headquarters; Kim Tae-jung, CEO of Dongwon BIDC; and Kim Jae-sung, Deputy Director of Chungbuk Regional Innovation Platform. They will discuss ▲ Establishing a cooperative system between the dedicated agency (General Operations Center) and participating universities ▲ Building the Busan-type Shared University Model (BITS) and establishing a convergent education innovation system ▲ Innovation tasks in the three core fields.

The ‘Busan Regional Innovation Platform Project (RIS)’ was finally selected in March after a government (Ministry of Education) public contest in February, and a total of 214.3 billion KRW will be invested over the next five years, including 149.9 billion KRW in national funds and 64.4 billion KRW in local funds.

The Regional Innovation Platform Project (RIS) is a project that supports fostering talent directly in the region to develop local key industries and solve regional issues through cooperation among local governments, universities, and regional innovation institutions, enabling them to settle in the region through employment and entrepreneurship. The city is promoting the establishment of the Busan-type Shared University Model (BITS) and innovation tasks in three core fields.

The three core fields are smart port logistics, eco-friendly smart ships, and clean energy convergence parts and materials.

Since being selected in the contest, Busan City has been supporting the joint establishment of business plans regarding core field innovation tasks, industry-demand-tailored talent cultivation, and performance management measures based on government consulting.

Additionally, the city is playing a leading role based on regional industry-academia cooperation by expanding autonomous tasks linked to the operation of the Regional Innovation-centered University Support System (RISE) pilot area, selecting 20 autonomous tasks for talent cultivation in local key industries and future industry development, and solving current issues.

Deputy Mayor for Economic Affairs Lee Seong-gwon stated, “Since Busan’s future depends on talent cultivation, we will actively communicate and cooperate to successfully establish university education innovation such as the Busan Shared University (BITS) and create an innovation model based on a partnership between universities and the region.”

Busan Local Government-University Cooperation-Based Regional Innovation Project (RIS) Promotion System.

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