University of Newcastle featured at Korea-Australia Higher Education Forum in Seoul
In May this year the University in conjunction with South Korea’s Pusan National University presented an overview of the last 15 years of collaboration between our two universities at the Korea-Australia Higher Education Forum in Seoul.
The focus of the Forum was to stimulate collaboration but also identify the joint projects we have worked on that helped our two universities develop the partnership and the opportunities for future collaboration.
Since 2007, both universities have promoted and engaged in international research partnerships that have led to the establishment of the International Collaborative Centre of the Carbon Future (ICCCF) at NIER, supported by University of Newcastle, Pusan National University and various industry partners in Korea.
Since 2016 the collaboration focus has been on sustainable energy technology which has attracted significant global interest in international conferences, student exchange programs, technical seminars, and industry engagements. Building on our strong collaboration, University of Newcastle and Pusan National University recently established the Australia-Korea Collaborative Research Hub Centre for Green Ammonia Integrated Power Generation.
In 2024 we added Teacher Education to the collaboration portfolio and in 2025 the University of Newcastle will host and reciprocate with Pusan National University on Undergraduate and Post Graduate teacher training, in-country experiences and research with a potential outcome for our graduates to work in both South Korea and Australia.
To inform future collaborations, the advice we offered at the recent Korea-Australia Higher Education Forum in Seoul was to:
1. Encourage Postdoctoral Researchers, as they are the facilitators that will get to know both universities and start small collegiate projects that build a deeper awareness of each institution.
2. Invest in face-to-face connection through delegations, exchange, joint seminar and conference presentation and aim to get a higher oversight of the collaboration landscape and look beyond you own areas of expertise and the silos of faculties and institutes.
3. Have an open mindset as to how a collaboration might develop. For example there was a time in Newcastle's history where coal was the primary focus but today the city has evolved to offer a world-class university.
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