Gyeonggi-do to Dispatch 330 Youths for Overseas University Training This Year

Gyeonggi Provincial Government

Gyeonggi Province will expand the ‘Gyeonggi Youth Ladder Program,’ which provides young people with overseas university study experiences, to cities and counties, and significantly increase the number of participants this year.

On the 7th, Gyeonggi Province announced that the Gyeonggi Youth Ladder Program, which was promoted last year as a 100% province-funded direct project, will be divided into a direct project by the province and a support project by cities and counties (50% province funding, 50% city/county funding) this year, and the scale of the project will be greatly expanded from 200 participants at 5 universities to 330 participants at 11 universities.

Through the direct project, Gyeonggi Province will select 270 participants for 9 overseas universities this year, and cities and counties will select 60 participants for 2 universities to be dispatched respectively.

To this end, Gyeonggi Province will hold a public contest to select cities and counties that will promote the youth ladder support project by the end of this month. The selected cities and counties will select a total of 60 participants, 30 from each city/county, in the second half of this year and send them to study at 2 universities.

In addition, the Gyeonggi Youth Ladder Program, which will be conducted as a direct project by Gyeonggi Province with 270 participants at 9 universities, will recruit participants from next month and conduct overseas university study programs in July and August.

The countries for study are currently being considered among 11 universities located in the United States, Australia, China, as well as Europe and Asia, which were included last year.

The Gyeonggi Youth Ladder Program is a representative youth policy of the 8th Gyeonggi Province administration aimed at providing ‘more equal opportunities’ to young people. The program supports young people’s overseas university study experiences to help reduce social disparities and provide opportunities for diverse career development. Participants receive support for all program costs, including airfare, accommodation, university program fees, as well as pre-education and post-management.

Last year, Gyeonggi Province selected 200 young people in the province and conducted a 4-week overseas study program at 5 universities, including the University of Michigan in the United States, in July and August. At that time, over 5,000 people applied, resulting in intense competition.

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