Sookmyung Women’s University selected for the Leaders in Industry-University Cooperation project
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- Writer 커뮤니케이션팀
- 보도일자 2022-05-10
Sookmyung Women’s University was selected for the cooperation-based development university category among the three-phase Leaders in Industry-University Cooperation fostering project (hereinafter the LINC3.0 project) that creates a cooperation ecosystem between universities and industries.
The cooperation-based development university category of the LINC3.0 project aims to strengthen universities’ industrial-educational cooperation capacity through the establishment of a foundation for industry-university cooperation, and a total of 10 universities in Korea were selected for this purpose. As the only women＇s university selected in the country, Sookmyung Women’s University is to receive about 2 billion won in government support for 6 years, totaling 12 billion won.
Sookmyung Women’s University’s Research & Business Development Foundation (Dean Myung-Seok Lee) plans to establish a leading model for the BEST (Bio Health, Environment/Energy, Smart City, Digital Humanity) TUNE UP industry-university cooperation through this project. To this end, the school plans to achieve the following: ▲invigorate industry demand-based curriculum and convergence training curriculum ▲facilitate technology commercialization through the operation of ICC (Industry Collaboration Center) in the fields of bio, health, environment, and energy ▲build a startup-friendly ecosystem ▲establish an industry-university sharing and collaboration system that enables regional-zone-global expansion.
As a result of this project evaluation, the Sookmyung Women’s University’s university-industry and regional-global sharing/collaboration plans were selected as excellent cases in the sharing and collaboration category. In the future, Sookmyung Women’s University will prepare a regional-other university-global collaboration system to build a small but stable industry-university cooperation model for small and medium-sized universities, and share project results to evolve and develop into a demand-tailored growth track at the stage evaluation that is to be held in 3 years.
President Yunkeum Chang said, “After the establishment of the College of Engineering in 2016, and through continuous efforts, we have prepared a growth ladder for industry-university cooperation that leads to basic research-application development-technology transfer-startups and became the first women’s university in the nation to be selected for the LINC3.0 project,” and “we will establish a new industry-university cooperation model to discover and resolve industries’ demand for manpower, education, and technology.”