YU International Development Cooperation Center holds workshop on 'International Development Cooperation Status and Tasks'. Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director Oh Young-joo and Dr. Park Soo-young of KOICA give special lectures.
[May 29, 2014]
YU (President Noh Seok-kyun) held a workshop to share the policy issues and visions of the international development cooperation projects at the YU Cheonma Art Center Sapphire Hall at 2 p.m. on the 28th.
This workshop, which was hosted by the YU International Development Cooperation Center (Director Choi Oe Chool), was held to search for and share directions for international development and social development that can contribute the global community from the university level. The YU International Development Cooperation Center holds workshops regularly to search for ways to develop international development projects and to find solutions to mutual tasks for the international community.
At this workshop, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Development and Cooperation Bureau Director Oh Young-joo, Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) Rural Development Team Director Park Soo-young, and other experts in international development and cooperation were invited as speakers.
First, Director Oh Young-joo spoke about Korea's ODA (official development assistance) history, scope of ODA and countries subject to support, ODA project types, and direction of major free aid policies, development and cooperation paradigm shifts of the international community, development and cooperation projects to become an exemplary global ODA contributing nation, and measures to respond to and lead key global agendas related to development and cooperation under the topic of 'current status and projects for international development and cooperation'.
Director Oh said, "It is necessary to foster international development and cooperation project planning and execution experts through the cooperation of civil organization and educational institutes with capacities in the field of development and cooperation like that of YU," and added, "It is important to search for integrative utilization plans of civil development strategies to pursue ODA projects efficiently and to implement diverse and effective ODA policies."
Following this, under the title 'KOICA farming and rural development sector project management', Director Park Soo-young spoke about the ODA international community trends, project strategies and planning, and project management for the agricultural sector, while introducing the major cooperative projects of KOICA.
Director Choi Oe Chool, who made preparations for this workshop, said, "Since establishing the Basic Act on International Development and Cooperation in 2010, Korea has been making efforts to overcome common international issues such as the poverty and disease problems of emerging countries." He added, "our university will also share the achievements of the Saemaul Undong and the development of Korea, which was unprecedented in the world, with emerging countries and continuously strive to contribute to global co-prosperity and development by expanding the number of countries to which our experiences will be shared with."
Meanwhile, in order to foster global Saemual leaders in emerging countries, YU established the Park Chung Hee School of Policy and Saemaul in 2011 and was selected in June 2013 as an 'international cooperation leading university'. In July of 2013, YU established the international development and cooperation center and signed MOUS with government institutes, local autonomies, international organizations and NGSs including KOICA, KOTRA, Korea Forest Service, Rural Development Administration, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Gyeongsangnam-do, UNESCO, Asia Forest Cooperation Organization, Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements, Korea Environment Corporation, and the Korea Rural Economic Institute as a hub university for international development cooperation projects. It also signed partnership agreements with nine national universities in seven Southeast Asian countries including Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines and is actively pursuing various international development and cooperation projects.
