Gachon University has been selected for the ‘2025 Advanced Industry Specialized Graduate School Support Project (Battery)’ led by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, and will receive 15 billion KRW in funding over the next five years.
This project aims to establish and operate specialized graduate schools for advanced industries to cultivate and utilize innovative master's and doctoral talents who will lead the nation's advanced strategic industries. This year, Gachon University was the only university nationwide to be selected.
Following the project selection, Gachon University will receive 3 billion KRW annually for five years, totaling 15 billion KRW, to build educational environments such as research equipment, develop and operate curricula, and promote industry-academia projects linked with companies.
According to the project selection, Gachon University will establish a Battery Specialized Graduate School in the first half of this year to build a ‘Leading Model for Practical Battery Talent Education Responding to Sustainable Industrial Field Needs’ and cultivate master's and doctoral talents who can be directly deployed in core battery materials, battery design, and advanced analysis fields.
Through this, the university plans to nurture about 150 master's and doctoral-level core technical personnel over the next five years. Currently, the battery major has 84 students, including 74 master's and 10 doctoral students.
A research team at Gachon University is conducting electrode slurry manufacturing practice for the development of high-performance cells in the battery specialized laboratory. Photo by Gachon University
Gachon University has secured specialized battery education curricula and excellent faculty accumulated through the Ministry-collaborative secondary battery talent cultivation project and the advanced field innovative convergence university project.
In February, the university also held a ‘Battery Specialized Graduate School Establishment and Operation Agreement Ceremony’ with the Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI), a specialized production research institute in the electronics and IT fields under the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy.
The two institutions will conduct joint research and academic-industry programs in the secondary battery field by utilizing battery education infrastructure.
Additionally, last year, the university invited world-renowned secondary battery scholars such as Professor Arumugam Manthiram from the University of Texas and this year Professor Y. Shirley Meng from the University of Chicago as speakers to hold an international symposium on the theme of ‘The Future of Secondary Battery Technology.’
President Gil-yeo Lee of Gachon University said, "We plan to continuously produce core personnel with global competitiveness in the secondary battery industry sector to supply talents needed by the nation and help the secondary battery industry advance into the global market."
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