SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY (SKKU), SEOUL, KOREA
The 5th Korea-Russia Rector's Forum with the theme "The 4th Industrial Revolution and Changes in Higher Education" was held on November 9, 2017 (Thursday) at SKKU's Natural Sciences Campus. At the forum, rectors from 13 Russian universities and 20 Korean universities participated and had in-depth discussions for seeking new directions for Korea and Russia's higher education.
Speeches were delivered by Kyu Sang CHUNG, the President of SKKU, followed by Kyuhyung LEE, Chairman and the Secretariat of KRD, Yeopyo YUN, the President of Chungbuk National University, and Ivanchenko Sergei NIKOLAEVICH, the Rector of Pacific National University and Head of the Russian KRD Education and Science working group.
At the 1st session, Prof. Jeehyong LEE (Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering/Vice Dean of Sungkyun AI Convergence Center) gave a presentation with the subject "AI and the Human" while Prof. Anisimov Nikita YURIEVICH, Interim President of Far Eastern Federal University, gave a lecture entitled "Response to the Challenge of the 4th Industrial Revolution: Russia Techno Park as a Motive of Innovation and Development".
The 2nd session was held under the theme "The Age of Convergence and A New Direction for Korean-Russian University Exchange: Interdisciplinary Cooperation, Mutual Degree Recognition, Academic-Industrial Cooperation", and the participants developed cooperation models in the fields of humanities and social sciences and natural sciences. They also shared their ideas for joint research activities, academic-industry cooperation, and research complexes.
In the afternoon, each department had an individual meeting with Russian universities. On the SKKU side, professors from the Dept. of Mathematics, Dept. of Physics, Dept. of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Dept. of Software, School of Chemical Engineering, Dept. of Civil, Architectural and Environmental System Engineering, Dept. of Systems Management Engineering, SAINT, and the Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics participated.
Lastly, Russian delegations had time to tour the Suwon campus and N-Center. The Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research and the Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics introduced their research fields and researchers as well as their research facilities.
On November 10th (Friday), the rectors from Russian universities visited the Samsung Innovation Museum (SIM) located in the Samsung Electronics Suwon Complex. They discussed possible academic-industrial cooperation with Samsung Electronics and had a chance to see Samsung's history, technology, and products.
