Busan Port Authority, 'BPA Jump Up Campus' Research Results Evaluation Meeting

Busan Port Authority (BPA) listened to the research results of graduate students supported by BPA and held a time for exchanging opinions between industry experts and young researchers through feedback.

On the 8th, BPA held the final evaluation meeting for the research results of the Busan Port and related industries research support project, ‘BPA Jump Up Campus’.

BPA Jump Up Campus is a research support project for graduate students nationwide related to Busan Port and shipping, port, and logistics, which includes direct and indirect support throughout the research process such as ▲research funding per project ▲consultation linking practitioners and experts.

Since starting the project in 2019, BPA has supported 28 research projects from 7 universities nationwide, and has achieved various results such as utilizing the outputs supported by this project in establishing and operating BPA’s own projects.

This evaluation meeting focused on presentations of the progress and results by graduate student researchers for 12 projects from 6 universities participating in the 2022 project, and feedback from R&D experts in the shipping, port, and logistics fields.

Busan Port Authority.

In evaluation meetings like this, BPA plans to operate BPA Jump Up Campus not just as a simple support project but as a win-win cooperation project that leads the development of the entire industry through active opinion exchange between industry experts and young researchers.

Based on the results of this project, BPA plans to further supplement and expand the project plan, promote the project in the first half of 2023, and select and support about 10 research projects.

Kang Jun-seok, President of BPA, said, “Through BPA Jump Up Campus, we support the nurturing of talent in the shipping, port, and logistics fields and aim to raise awareness and interest among the younger generation regarding Busan Port and related industries.”

He added, “We will share and develop research and analysis results from the perspective of young researchers to establish a future growth foundation for Busan Port and the Korean port and logistics industry in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.”