Global Industrial Technology Cooperation Center Program
Connects Korean institutions with global partners for long-term joint industrial innovation projects.
The Global Industrial Technology Cooperation Center Program sits under Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and supports international joint R&D between Korean institutions and leading overseas partners. In 2025 it selected six anchor institutions: MIT, Yale, Purdue, Johns Hopkins, Fraunhofer, and Georgia Tech. The program is built around consortium projects, with foreign universities and public research institutions serving as anchor partners while Korean firms and institutions join on the Korean side. The current plan points to about 45 joint projects in 2025 and a target of 100 next-generation foundational technologies by 2028. KIAT handles the international cooperation function. The program is aimed at building repeatable links between Korean industry and top-tier research centers abroad, not one-off exchange visits. It is strongest where a Korean industrial need can be paired with a credible foreign research base and a project can move from platform building to joint development. The named anchors span U.S. private, U.S. public, and German applied-research strengths, which gives the program a broad industrial bench.
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