Overseas Campuses Rapidly Expanding... Dongseo University Selected for 'Campus Asia Korea-Japan-China Expansion Project'

Ministry of Education and Korea Council for University Education Announce Selection of New Campus Expansion Project Teams

From Existing Korea-Japan-China Universities to ASEAN Universities 'Plus'

Annual Support of 120 Million KRW per Team fo

Dongseo University Campus.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] Dongseo University is embarking on a project to expand its campus to universities in Japan and China.

On the 3rd, Dongseo University announced that it was finally selected as a new project group for the Ministry of Education and the Korean Council for University Education’s ‘2021 CAMPUS Asia (Collective Action for Mobility Program of University Students in Asia) Korea-Japan-China Expansion Project.’

The three countries conducted evaluations by country in September this year and reached an agreement by the end of October to select a total of 20 new project groups.

Among the 20 project groups, Korean universities selected include Dongseo University, Seoul National University, Korea University, Yonsei University, Pusan National University, Pukyong National University, and Korea Maritime and Ocean University.

The Campus Asia Department at Dongseo University operates a program under the theme “Jointly Operated Mobile Campus of Three Countries for Cultivating East Asian Global Leaders.”

Along with the existing Ritsumeikan University in Japan and Guangdong University of Foreign Studies in China, the newly added university is Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU), establishing a joint educational curriculum and an online joint curriculum among Korea, Japan, and China, activating a mobile campus across the three countries.

Dongseo University was introduced as an exemplary case for establishing a dedicated department for program operation, joint curriculum among the three countries, and a global living-learning linkage program centered on joint living and learning of students from the three countries.

This expansion project has been reorganized not only as ‘CAMPUS Asia’ but also as CAMPUS Asia Plus, which includes universities from ASEAN countries to promote international exchange.

Selected universities will receive approximately 120 million KRW annually for five years to support program operation costs such as developing online and offline joint curricula.

This project will also provide support for dispatched students’ living expenses, settlement support funds, and emergency aid.

The CAMPUS Asia project promotes joint and double degree exchange programs among universities in the three countries.

It was adopted as a new project at the 3rd Korea-Japan-China Summit in May 2010 and has gone through the first phase pilot project (2011?2015) and the second phase main project (2016?2021).

As a result of efforts for educational cooperation and human exchange among the three countries, a total of 6,625 people have participated in exchanges, and 497 have obtained double degrees.

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