2020. 05. 21

- As part of UNESCO UNITWIN Project, the 1^st HGU International Development Cooperation UCC Contest has been held.

(Picture 1) The Awards Ceremony for the 1^st HGU International Development Cooperation UCC Contest held in a Live Webinar Format

Handong Global University (President Soon-Heung Chang)'s International Development and Cooperation Center, as part of UNESCO UNITWIN project, hosted the 1^st HGU International Development Cooperation UCC Contest, and held the awards ceremony on May 20^th in a live webinar format.

This contest, held with the topic of ‘Necessity of Higher Education Field in International Development Cooperation for the Sustainable Development and Capacity Building’, was opened for 5 weeks from April 1^st ~ May 6^th, 2020, and consisted of topics from the ▲Academic Field ▲Social Innovation Field and ▲Business Field. This contest has put Project-based Learning (PBL) into application, which President Chang of HGU has continuously emphasized. This contest encouraged individual teams to find solutions to important problems within the international development field. Each team identified a country they wanted to visit, analyzed the socio-economic problems of the nation, and created a UCC that derived a possible solution in the higher education field of International Development Cooperation.

A total of 15 teams applied for this contest, and HGU selected 5 teams, considering the adaptability of the subject, degree of the completeness of the content, creativity, suitability of promotion, etc. Those that have been selected are as follows:

• ‘Understanding of Computer & Electrical Engineering – International Social Revolution in 5 Minutes’ created by Min-Jin Kim (School of Management and Economics, Class of 2016) and 3 others (Ye-Bin Kim, Se-Won Oh, Chan-Yeong Park)
• ‘Why Not Change the World; Why Not Change Mongolia?’ created by Ha-Neul Jeong (School of Computer & Electrical Engineering, Class of 2019) and 3 others (Su-Bin Kang, Ye-Sung Kang, Eun-Hyang Lee)
• ‘Remember 3E’ created by Dong-Whan Kwon (School of Counseling, Psychology, and Social Welfare, Class of 2015) and 3 others (Chan-Sik Choi, Ju-Eun Kim, Kyung-Min Hur)
• ‘A Change for a Change’ created by In-Kyu Choi (School of International Studies, Languages, and Literature, Class of 2016) and 3 others (Esther Yoo, Su-Min Lee, Ji-Woo Kim)
• ‘Survival Technology, Entrepreneurship’ created by Min-Sun Shin (School of Communication Arts, Class of 2016) and 3 others (Ye-Eun Han, Yoon-Soo Jung, and Jei-Young Park) and others.

(Picture 2) ‘Why Not Change the World; Why Not Change Mongolia’ created and awarded in the 1^st HGU International Development Cooperation UCC Contest created by Ha-Neul Jung and 3 others.

(Picture 3) ‘Remember 3E’ created and awarded in the 1^st HGU International Development Cooperation UCC Contest created by Dong-Whan Kwon and 3 others.

The teams that have won awards will visit UNESCO UNITWIN project locations throughout the world in which HGU has on-going relationships to apply the solutions that they have prepared in the field.

Professor Jin-Won Ahn, Director of HGU International Development Cooperation Center said, “Through this International Development Cooperation Contest, we hope that this opportunity will be a chance where the university students that one day will lead the international society find important problems of the higher education field in International Development Cooperation by themselves, and perform problem-solving techniques to be given an opportunity to inspire sustainable development and capacity building in developing countries.”

*UNESCO UNITWIN (University Twinning and Networking) is a program where universities from developed nations form a network with universities in developing nations to support the education and research institutes of these universities. This aims to narrow the gap in knowledge and support the self-sustainability of developing nations, founded by UNESCO in 1992. Handong Global University was selected as the First UNITWIN Sponsor University in 2007.

* Besides this, Handong Global University was selected as the first Intern Exchange Agreement University in South Korea with OECD (2008), sponsoring University of UN ACADEMIC IMPACT (2011), operating University of the UN Depository Library (2014), and host institution of the UN NGO Conference (2016). The UNAI Ban Ki-moon Institute for Global Education (IGE) was opened in 2019, thereby speeding up the drive for internationalization.