Busan National University Hosts '4th Performance Sharing Forum for 4th Phase BK21 Graduate School Innovation Project'

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Hosted by Ministry of Education and NRF, Organized by Pusan National University, Held on the 18th at Signiel Busan

Pusan National University (President Choi Jae-won) hosted the ‘2024 4th Phase BK21 Graduate School Innovation Project 4th Performance Sharing Forum’ on the afternoon of the 18th at Signiel Busan, organized by Pusan National University and sponsored by the Ministry of Education and the National Research Foundation of Korea.

Busan National University is holding the 4th phase BK21 Graduate School Innovation Project Performance Sharing Forum and taking a commemorative photo. Photo by Busan National University

The event was attended by about 300 people, including officials from the Ministry of Education and the National Research Foundation, graduate school deans and BK project participants from major universities nationwide such as Seoul National University, Yonsei University, Sungkyunkwan University, and Kyungpook National University, as well as Pusan National University.

This forum was prepared to discover and share excellent performance cases of the government’s research-oriented university fostering project, the 4th Phase BK21 Graduate School Innovation Project, to explore directions for graduate school innovation and development, and to provide benchmarking opportunities for participating universities in the future.

The BK performance forum, held in Busan for the second consecutive year, began with a keynote lecture on research-oriented universities and future industries by Professor Lee Yong-hoon of KAIST (former president of UNIST), followed by a comprehensive performance analysis sharing of the 4th Phase BK project, presentations on achievements in education, research, internationalization, and industry-academia cooperation, and a Q&A session.

In particular, attention was drawn to the introduction of the ‘full-cycle academic structure support performance,’ which covers not only partial support for graduate students but also support starting from undergraduate students aspiring to enter graduate school, including graduate studies, career-tailored support for employment and entrepreneurship after graduation, and both direct and indirect support for students.

Lee Jae-woo, Dean of Graduate School at Pusan National University and Vice Minister of Education, who hosted this forum, said, “The BK21 Graduate School Innovation Project is almost the only government-funded project supporting graduate schools and has been a pillar sustaining graduate education and research in Korea for about 25 years. Based on the achievements so far, we expect more support at the central government level so that this project can achieve even greater results in the future.”

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