General management of Future Car Conversion Component Project for Regional Innovation System of Daegu-Gyeongbuk

Cultivation of talents to meet future car conversion and operation of shared campus for Daegu-Gyeongbuk’s innovative colleges

Cluster of “future car conversion component” area of core driving industry for the 4th industrial revolution focused in YU

[September 06, 2022]

YU (President CHOI Oe-chool) started the project for “Regional innovation based on cooperation between local governments and colleges (Regional Innovation System, hereinafter RIS).”

 YU held “Conference of participants of future car conversion component project for Daegu-Gyeongbuk RIS” in Hotel Interbulgo on the 6th. YU leads the project as the central university of RIS project being implemented by “Daegu-Gyeongbuk RIS”.  College and agency personnel of future car conversion component project for Daegu-Gyeongbuk RIS participated in the conference to share general direction of operation of the project and project budget payment standard and to construct a cooperation system for participants of future car conversion component project.

 RIS project is implemented to establish a mid-to-long-term development plan to meet industrial demands with construction of RIS by local governments, colleges, and regional innovation agencies, to select core areas for the goal of development, and to support innovation of colleges and regional industries concerned. Including Daegu-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Kyungpook National University, and YU, 23 colleges/universities, 14 regional innovation agencies and institutes, and more than 200 local enterprises participate in the project. KRW 331.6 billion will be invested for five years in maximum and the project will be implemented for reorganization of educational system and collaboration with regional innovation agencies.

 In this project, YU will manage the Future Car Conversion Component Project Team to implement the project for cultivation of talents and enterprise collaboration bubs by ▲ supporting cultivation of talents and local settlement to meet future car conversion and ▲ operating share campus of Daegu-Gyeongbuk Multiversity (DGM) for future car conversion and installing the major in future car integration. Gyeongsangbuk-do and regional colleges/universities, local innovation agencies and institutes, and local mid-sized automobile component companies will form a government-academy-industry-institute cluster and implement the project focused in YU.