Yeungnam University announced on the 10th that the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) has selected it as a training institute under KOICA’s professional talent development program in the fields of information technology and artificial intelligence (IT·AI) and manufacturing-industry engineering.
The program is a government-run official development assistance (ODA) project that pairs master’s degree programs at South Korean universities with industry internships for beneficiary countries designated by the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC).
Yeungnam will receive 6.2 billion KRW (about USD 4,154,000) from KOICA through August 2030 to train master’s-level engineers who can lead industrial development in developing countries.
The university plans to admit 45 graduate students into the Department of Information and Communications Engineering for the IT·AI track and 30 into the Department of Mechanical Engineering for the manufacturing-industry engineering track.
President Choi Oechul said, “We will combine the international development cooperation experience we have accumulated through the Saemaul Movement with advanced-technology training to support sustainable industrial development in partner countries and to promote shared prosperity globally.”
