Busan City Holds Workshop for Establishing 'Glocal University 30 Innovation Strategy'

Held at Busan City Hotel at 2 PM on the 22nd, attended by about 100 city and local university officials

On the 22nd at 2 PM, Busan City will hold a "Workshop for Establishing the Glocal University 30 Innovation Strategy" at the Busan City Hotel Convention Hall.

This workshop was organized to share the promotion strategy of Glocal University 30 and to strengthen the response capabilities of local universities challenging the 2024 Glocal University 30 designation through special lectures on establishing innovation strategies.

About 100 participants, including officials from Busan City and local universities, will attend to explore promotion plans for the Glocal University 30 designation by preparing innovation strategies related to talent cultivation linked to regional development strategies, industry-academia cooperation, and employment and entrepreneurship.

The workshop will proceed in the order of ▲ Special lecture on the direction of establishing the Glocal University 30 innovation strategy ▲ Presentation of the main designation case by Pusan National University and Busan National University of Education.

First, Professor Ha Yeonseop of Yonsei University (member of the Glocal University Committee) will give a lecture titled "Direction for Establishing the Glocal University 30 Innovation Strategy," reviewing the basic direction of the government's local university development policy, the promotion strategy of Glocal University 30, and the main characteristics of the designated universities, and will discuss innovation strategy plans to secure global competitiveness for local universities.

Next, Jang Deokhyun, Director of Planning at Pusan National University, will introduce the business contents of Glocal University 30 at Pusan National University and Busan National University of Education with the vision of a new future education city created by the "Edu-TRIangle." He will share know-how gained from being designated as the first Glocal University in the Busan area, including governance convergence for educational innovation, educational system convergence for cultivating integrative talents, and campus specialization leading future industries.

So far, Busan City has promoted various policy supports by establishing a support system linking local governments, universities, and industries to enable local universities to be selected in the Glocal University 30 competition.

After Pusan National University and Busan National University of Education were provisionally designated in June, the city formed the Glocal University Support Group led by Deputy Mayor for Economy Lee Seonggwon, actively operating an integrated support system linking local governments, local universities, industries, and specialized institutions through execution plan establishment, preparation status reporting meetings, and vision and innovation strategy reporting meetings with the provisionally designated universities. This effort led to the final selection in the Glocal University 30 competition last November.

In particular, future-oriented educational innovation and specialization strategies linked to Busan City's strategic industries such as Edutech, Lifecare, semiconductors, quantum and information communication technology (ICT), and digital finance are expected to contribute to revitalizing the regional economy as important growth engines for Busan's industry.

Mayor Park Hyungjun stated, "Through this workshop, we expect to strengthen the capabilities of local universities by seeking ways for autonomous innovation and global competitiveness of universities," adding, "Through the designation of Glocal Universities, local universities will function as hubs of innovative growth, and together with our city's industry-academia-government cooperation policies and the local era vision of opportunity development zones and education development zones, Busan will lead the true local era and take the lead in becoming a key hub for development in the southern region."

Panoramic view of Busan City Hall. (Photo by Busan City Hall)

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