POSTECH Day Commemorates Thriving Korea-Sweden Education and Research Partnership

Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) hosted POSTECH Day on Thursday, November 23 to kick-off the three-year Korea-Sweden Education, Research and Innovation Collaboration (SKERIC) partnership. 20 representatives across five leading universities of Sweden, Daniel Wolvén, the Swedish Ambassador to Korea, and about 30 POSTECH representatives attended the event.
POSTECH Day began with an opening ceremony with remarks from POSTECH president Seong Keun Kim and Ambassador Wolvén followed by the welcome luncheon. In the afternoon, Startups at POSTECH session was held to introduce POSTECH’s unique entrepreneurship ecosystem and its industry-academia-government network. Two POSTECH-grown companies that have been successfully launched with such support presented their startup journeys during the session. In another room, Professor Anne-Lise Viotti, a physics professor from Lund University in Sweden, gave a talk to POSTECH physics students on attoseconds, the topic of Nobel Prize in Physics 2023. Study in Sweden was also held for undergraduate students to learn about opportunities to study in Sweden and its research environment.

This year, POSTECH, along with Seoul National University and Korea University, joined the SKERIC partnership, an international collaborative research project with five Swedish universities, which are: Lund University, University of Gothenburg, Umea University, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and Uppsala University. The eight universities will collaborate on research for three years to foster the next generation of researchers and promote research-based startups. To celebrate the launch of the partnership, Seoul National University and Korea University also each held events this week.