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NEW (2015-05-06) Ajou is selected as a partner for the Energy Experts Fostering Project by the Ministry of Trade

  • 2015-05-12
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Ajou University has been selected as a partner for the 2015 Energy Experts Fostering Project (for the University’s Support for Advanced R&D Experts Program). The Project is run by the Korean government, and the University will receive investments of 400 million won a year from the government for up to five years (investments for the first two years are confirmed, and they can be extended for the next three years subject to certain conditions).
 
The Project is being carried out by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy with the aim of fostering energy and R&D experts, and it consists of three programs (Capability Development of Future Experts in Basic Fields; Support for Advanced R&D Experts; and Promotion of International Talent Exchanges). The Ministry is scheduled to spend 8.3 billion won on the Project this year alone.
 
The University designated ‘Next Generation Clean Energy Based on Gasification and Chemical Conversion Technology’ as its Program task, and it plans to operate a track within the Department of Energy System Research under the Graduate School. Graduate students attending the Department of Energy System Research and the Department of Mechanical Engineering are likely to take part in the track.
 
For the Program, the University’s Industry-Academia Cooperation Group led the formation of its own project group including 15 public corporations and small- and mid-sized companies and two research institutes. Also taking part in the project group are 17 professors who majored in chemical engineering, energy engineering, chemistry, mechanical engineering, economics, physics, and educational engineering. The group plans to produce about 100 people with master’s and doctoral degrees in the fields of next generation clean energy technologies.
 
[Participating companies]
Korea District Heating, Korea Western Power, Korea Midland Power, Korea East-West Power, Korea Southern Power, Ajou NBC, Combustech, Nanopac, Advanced Technology & Energy Saving, Samho Enviro-Tech, CES, Doori Filter System, SFC, eZRobotics, and Telin
[Research institutes] 
Institute for Advanced Engineering, and Korea Institute of Energy Research