Busan Port Authority to Actively Promote Industry-Academia-Government Cooperation Projects in 2024

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Busan Port Authority (BPA) will actively promote industry-university-institute cooperation projects in 2024 to strengthen the global competitiveness of Busan Port, secure future growth engines, and foster professional manpower.

Busan Port Authority.

As one of the representative industry-university-institute cooperation projects, BPA will fully participate in the 'Busan Regional Innovation Platform,' led by Busan City and supported by the Ministry of Education, starting in 2024.

This project involves collaboration among Busan City, local universities, regional innovation institutions including BPA, and companies to nurture talent specialized in regional industries, support the settlement of outstanding young talents in the region, and expand future promising jobs.

BPA plans to implement various projects to enhance the competitiveness of the Busan regional shipping and port logistics industry as an innovative company in the port logistics sector within this project.

These include various support projects aimed at developing field-oriented smart port technologies such as joint technology development with the private sector and on-site demonstration support.

So far, BPA has promoted initiatives such as '1876 Busan,' a technology startup support platform in the Busan regional shipping and port sector, and 'BPA Jump Up Campus,' a graduate student research support project, to strengthen the competitiveness of Busan Port and related port industries.

Kang Jun-seok, President of BPA, stated, “We will continue to proactively secure essential new port and logistics technologies and professional manpower for the smart port era through various industry-university-institute cooperation projects, and actively cooperate for the mutual growth of Busan Port and related port industries.”

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