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International Conference and Recruitment Briefing Session Jointly Held by Ewha and the Financial Supervisory Service

International Conference and Recruitment Briefing Session Jointly Held by Ewha and the Financial Supervisory Service Ewha Womans University partnered with the Financial Supervisory Service to host the 2024 International Conference and Recruitment Briefing Session for Youths on August 27 (Tue.) at the Lee Sam-bong Hall of the ECC building. Since 2019, Ewha has jointly organized the said international conference on the themes of future finance and green finance with the Financial Supervisory Service, aiming to explore a sustainable future through industry-academia cooperation. This year marked the sixth edition of the event. Held under the theme of “Toward the Era of Green Transition,” the conference was attended by stakeholders from financial authorities, financial companies, and research institutes, including Ewha, the Financial Supervisory Service, the Financial Services Agency of Japan, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., Société Générale, Carbon Free Alliance, and BloombergNEF, who gathered to discuss pressing issues and measures for achieving carbon neutrality and responding to climate change. The first part of the international conference began at 9 a.m. with an opening address by Governor Lee Bokhyun of the Financial Supervisory Service and welcoming remarks by President Eun Mee Kim. This was followed by expressions of congratulations and support from global figures for the conference and its goal of presenting sustainable green finance models. Attendees included: Yoon Han-hong, chairperson of the National Assembly National Policy Committee; Kim Sang-hyup, Co-chairperson of the Presidential Commission on Carbon Neutrality and Green Growth; Colin Crooks, Ambassador of the United Kingdom; Georg Wilfried Schmidt, Ambassador of Germany; Peter Van der Vilet, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; and Maria Castillo Fernandez, Ambassador of the European Union in Korea. In her welcoming remarks, President Eun Mee Kim stated, “Environmental issues cannot be addressed by technological advancements alone and must be supported by a significant societal shift, in which awareness and change among individuals who drive that transformation are paramount.” She added, “I hope that today’s conference will serve as a platform for industry-government-academia cooperation for low-carbon transition and climate change response, contributing to the exploration of innovative and practical ways to tackle the climate crisis.” The international conference commenced with a keynote speech by President Lee Hoesung of the Carbon Free Alliance, on the topic of “The Role of the Green Transition and Carbon-free Energy.” It was followed by presentations on seven topics that explored the role of the financial industry in the low-carbon transition while sharing policies and market trends in the respective countries of speakers including: Satoshi Ikeda, Chief Sustainable Finance Officer at the Financial Services Agency of Japan; Georgina Lok, head of market development at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority; Masaaki Nagamura, general manager for international initiatives at Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co.; Ronald Young, head of Sustainable Finance for Asia at Société Générale; Jonathan Luan, head of Sustainability Research at Bloomberg; and Jaehak Hwang, Senior Investigator at the Financial Supervisory Service. In the afternoon, the event continued with the A.I. Challenge competition and the Recruitment Briefing Session for Youths, featuring 15 companies, including KB Kookmin Bank and ING. Jointly hosted by Ewha and the Financial Supervisory Service, this event serves as a platform to explore the future of green finance—a key pillar in achieving carbon neutrality amid the climate crisis—and to discuss potential responses for the domestic financial sector while identifying new growth opportunities. Additionally, by supporting youth employment, the event fosters innovative ideas for future finance and raises awareness of future finance among young people.
2024-08-28
Top Grade Obtained in Educational Innovation in 2024 University Innovation Support Project Evaluation

Top Grade Obtained in Educational Innovation in 2024 University Innovation Support Project Evaluation Ewha Womans University has received the highest rating of S-grade in the 2024 University Innovation Support Project Evaluation announced by the Ministry of Education, specifically in the field of educational innovation. Ewha was highly praised for its proactive implementation and successful operation of flexible academic systems, including the introduction of the Scranton College interdisciplinary major in 2009 and integrated selection for regular admissions by academic division in 2018, both of which ensured complete freedom of choice in students’ selection of majors. In particular, the university was recognized for its excellent multifaceted support to ensure the successful adaptation of students into their freely-chosen majors, such as strengthening the operation of the support system involving advisors, adjunct professors, and mentors; offering personalized support to help freshmen adapt to university life; facilitating networking and community-building among senior and junior students; operating courses designed for major exploration; offering programs focused on major counseling and exploration as well as establishing data-based support systems. The efforts to ensure the sustainable operation of the autonomous major selection system also positively impacted the overall results of the performance evaluation. This was achieved by categorizing students’ experiences of adapting to university life and exploring majors through policy research projects based on six years of accumulated operational data, which enabled the design of customized roadmaps for each category in order to facilitate systematic support. Additionally, Ewha was recognized for its excellence in establishing a systematic governance structure for collecting feedback from the university community, driving educational innovation, and offering a diverse range of convergence education programs. President Eun Mee Kim stated, “Since 2018, Ewha has been leading the way in open-major integrated admissions through the HOKMA College of General Education and working to foster future-oriented convergent talents. I believe these efforts have led to our impressive achievements.” She added, “We will continue our commitment to developing an innovative research and education platform aimed at establishing a future-oriented educational ecosystem.”
2024-08-13
Climate Tech Entrepreneur Bootcamp for a Sustainable Future Held

Climate Tech Entrepreneur Bootcamp for a Sustainable Future Held The Ewha Womans University’s Support Corps for Business Startups hosted a Climate Tech Entrepreneur Bootcamp over the course of four days from July 30 (Tue.). Organized under the initiative of the Ewha-Asan UniverCT (University × Climate Tech) by the Ewha Support Corps for Business Startups, the camp was designed to cultivate creative problem-solving skills through mentorships and hands-on training provided by various experts, alongside opportunities to explore solutions for a sustainable future. Director Sang-jun Kim of the Support Corps for Business Startups commented, “In light of the increasing need for developing innovative climate-technology solutions to combat climate change, we organized this event to offer undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to grow as talented entrepreneurs in the field of climate technology.” Held from July 30 (Tue.) to August 2 (Fri.) in the Research Cooperation Building and the University-Industry Collaboration Center at Ewha, the bootcamp was attended by 52 undergraduate and graduate students, including 36 students in 10 teams and 16 individual participants. Education, hands-on training, and mentoring at the event were provided by a diverse group of technical mentors, comprising climate-tech experts, startup professionals, venture capitalists, and master’s and doctoral students from Ewha’s Department of Climate and Energy Systems Engineering and Department of Environmental Science and Engineering. The students attended expert lectures on climate technology market trends, business models, and practical business pitch preparations. They also actively engaged in a range of activities intended to enhance their entrepreneurial capabilities, including brainstorming sessions on climate technology and related ideas, team building, business model development in groups, and customer interview and response analysis exercises. During the Pitching Day event held on the last day of the boot camp, a total of 15 teams presented their climate-tech business plans, utilizing various technologies such as solar power, carbon capture, artificial photosynthesis, and machine learning. Evaluations by venture capitalists and climate-tech experts then selected a total of five outstanding startup teams, which will receive KRW 10 million in commercialization support, along with various other entrepreneurial benefits, including the chance to compete in the University Integrated Demo Day this November. In addition to the Climate Tech Entrepreneur Bootcamp, the Support Corps for Business Startups will run various programs under the Ewha-Asan University initiative to lay the academic foundation for students to start businesses based on climate technology, and foster researcher-led startups within the university to build a technology-driven entrepreneurial ecosystem on campus.
2024-08-08
2024 Ewha Science Festival Held

2024 Ewha Science Festival Held The 2024 Ewha Science Festival was held on Monday, July 22 in the Lee Sam-bong Hall of the ECC building, providing unique hands-on scientific learning experiences for the public, including elementary, middle, and high school students. The Ewha Science Festival is a talent donation event in which science professors and students at Ewha participate under the motto of “bringing science to the public.” This year, 28 booths were established on various scientific topics, with the participation of six departments including Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Life Sciences, and Eco Science, centered around the high-tech laboratory of Chemistry and Nano Science at the College of Natural Sciences. Professors from the said departments designed science experiments for the event, while the participating students offered hands-on learning opportunities and engaging exhibits, thereby garnering a high positive response. Visitors to the festival enjoyed the rare opportunity to develop an interest in scientific fields and satisfy their curiosity through hands-on experiences, taking part in experiments with instructions and explanations from Ewha professors and students. Centered around the “Center for Future Sustainable Molecular Design Research” at the Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, which is one of the teams selected for the “Ewha Frontier 10-10 Project” in leading research fields, this festival was organized by the Research Institute for Basic Sciences and Autonomous Priority Research Institute, BK21 Future-oriented LIFE Talent Cultivation Team, alongside the Korea Foundation for Women In Science, Engineering and Technology (WISET), and sponsored by Ewha’s College of Natural Sciences and Office of Admissions.
2024-07-25
Ewha Research Teams Pioneer Development of Advanced Original Technologies

Ewha Research Teams Pioneer Development of Advanced Original Technologies Research teams from Ewha were selected for major projects initiated by the Korean government with the aim to support the development of advanced research and original technologies, thereby enabling universities to conduct global-level innovation research. The Fluorescence Core Imaging Center (Director Dongmin Kang) at the Department of Life Science was selected for the Research Infrastructure Advancement Project, under the Basic Science Research Capacity Enhancement Project organized by the Ministry of Education. Consequently, the Fluorescence Core Imaging Center will be installed and operated with cutting-edge research equipment and translational research on aging-related diseases will be conducted with project funding of approximately KRW 70 billion over the next five years. The research team from the Department of Life Sciences will set up advanced research equipment to systematically analyze diseases that occur during the aging process of small animals. They will also conduct translational research on aging-related diseases using an advanced in-vivo small animal molecular imaging system. Through advanced equipment such as the 7 Tesla MRI scanner and a micro-CT image analysis system, the team will obtain detailed multi-dimensional images of individual organisms, tissues, or cells using in vivo small animal molecular imaging technology. The Fluorescence Core Imaging Center was selected for the “Core-Facility Project” in 2019 and has been facilitating the co-utilization of research equipment and joint research with a focus on specialized research using optical molecular imaging technology. In 2022, the center was also selected for the “Bio Research Data Utilization Infrastructure Development Project” to operate the Bioimaging Data Curation Center, thereby taking the lead in securing national competitiveness in the science and technology sector. The joint research team led by Professor Taeyoung Choi from the Department of Physics was selected for the “2024 Leading Project for Quantum Technology Research and Development (Quantum Computing)” project. The Ewha research team will conduct joint research on the development of a 15-qubit ion trap-based universal quantum computing processor with high connectivity, in collaboration with research teams from Seoul National University, Kookmin University, and POSTECH. The team will focus on the development of a technology to perform high-reliability quantum superposition and entanglement based on the “ion qubit,” which demonstrates the highest performance among various quantum computing platforms. To this end, the team will receive a total of KRW 2.65 billion in research funding over four years until 2027. Professor Taeyoung Choi has demonstrated programmable quantum entanglement in five quantum information qubits for the first time in the world, a core achievement for the practical implementation of quantum computers. The team has conducted various research projects, having been consecutively selected for the “2019 Basic Research Laboratory Support Project” and the “2022 Follow-up Research Support Project for the Basic Research Laboratory,” as well as for the “2021 Quantum Computing Development Project” and the “2022 Quantum Technology Cooperation Project (Quantum Computing Field).”
2024-07-09
Ewha Signs MOU with Syensqo, a Global-Leading Materials Company

Ewha Signs MOU with Syensqo, a Global-Leading Materials Company Ewha held a ceremony for signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Syensqo at the auditorium of the University-Industry Collaboration Center on Wednesday, June 27, and reaffirmed their commitment to continuing university-industry cooperation. Around 150 relevant people attended this event, which was held as part of “the 10th Anniversary of Ewha-Syensqo R&I Center Ceremony,” including Ewha President Eun Mee Kim; Ilham Kadri, CEO of Syensqo; Francois Bontemps, Ambassador of Belgium to the Republic of Korea; and Minister for Trade Inkyo Cheong. Syensqo is a specialized materials company that was demerged in 2023 from Solvay, a Belgian global materials company. In 2011, the company signed a partnership with Ewha, and following the establishment of Ewha-Syensqo R&I Center (formerly Ewha-Solvay R&I Center) at the University-Industry Collaboration Center in 2014, the center has been conducting university-industry joint research in 13 areas such as battery solutions and artificial intelligence. With the signing of this MOU, Syensqo has committed to continuing the achievements of the past 10 years of university-industry collaboration and to providing over KRW 5 billion in research funding and scholarships over the next 10 years. Following the MOU signing ceremony, Ewha President Eun Mee Kim and Syensqo CEO Ilham Kadri engaged in a roundtable discussion on the topic of the importance of university-industry collaboration. This roundtable discussion was organized to explore sustainable university-industry collaboration and development measures based on the achievements from the previous 10 years of collaboration between Ewha and Syensqo, with a particular focus on fostering female professional talent in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields. During the discussion, CEO Ilham Kadri emphasized that universities are “game-changers” that transform industries, highlighting the significance of fostering human resources through university-industry collaboration. She also stated, “In order to better achieve innovation, it is vital to invest in human resources, and the partnership between Ewha and Syensqo is further solidifying and accelerating efforts for innovation.” President Eun Mee Kim remarked, “The strong bonds we’ve built through university-industry collaboration will lay the foundation to enhance the capabilities of the next generation of talented women in STEM fields.” The discussion also covered various topics, including strategies for fostering female talent in STEM fields and the future vision of Syensqo. As the roundtable discussion concluded, CEO Ilham Kadri expressed her hope that Ewha Womans University will go on to produce Korea’s first female Nobel Prize winner.
2024-06-28

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