Dongseo University Students Receive Top Award at Campus Living Lab

(From left) Hwang Gi-hyun, Head of LINC 3.0 Project Group, Yoo Tae-jung, Kim Sung-hoon, and Professor Lee Hyun-dong are taking a group commemorative photo.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Hwang Du-yeol] Students from Dongseo University recently received the Grand Prize and a cash award of 3 million won at this year’s Campus Living Lab, co-hosted by Busan City and the Busan Creative Economy Innovation Center.

The Campus Living Lab is a program held annually by the Busan Creative Economy Innovation Center that fosters creative thinking and entrepreneurial spirit by having local university students and general citizens solve problems together, ultimately linking to actual startups.

The team “No-in-gwa Bada (The Old Man and the Sea),” which won the Grand Prize this year, proposed “Sinaya,” a communication service for caregivers at nursing hospitals for seniors, and developed and presented a prototype app.

The Sinaya app provides functions to search for nursing assistants and nursing hospitals or nursing homes, check reviews, and make reservations.

Since 2017, Dongseo University’s LINC 3.0 Project Group has participated in the Busan Living Lab network, continuously promoting local living lab activities, and has operated 37 DSU-Living Lab projects from 2018 to the present, leading efforts to solve regional problems.

Dongseo University has been leading the barrier-free living lab field, producing barrier-free cultural content and operating a media festival for people with disabilities for five years. On the 3rd and 4th of this month, it successfully held the 2022 Disabled Media Festival in collaboration with the Busan Viewer Media Center.

Hwang Gi-hyun, head of Dongseo University’s LINC 3.0 Project Group, said, “We will build a local-government-industry-academia-research network centered on Dongseo University’s Shared Collaboration Center to consider cooperative measures for solving regional problems,” adding, “We will also prepare ways to link industry-academia education and startups so that students can strengthen their creative thinking and capabilities through the Living Lab.”