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Dongseo University will receive up to 5 billion won per year for five years. DSU president Jekuk Chang said that being selected as a leading university for the LINC+ project will help accelerate DSU’s development.

Dongseo University has been selected as a business-oriented “Leading University” for the LINC+ project, which is the follow-up to the LINC (Leaders in Industry-University Cooperation) project that began in 2012. Like its predecessor LINC, LINC+ will provide financial support to universities for an activation project and to colleges for a community-customized project.

The Ministry of Education, in collaboration with the National Research Foundation of Korea, announced that 55 universities had been selected to promote industry-academia cooperation, along with 44 specialist colleges that were selected with a special emphasis on customized community services.A business project was adopted for each of the five following regions: the southeast of Korea; the Seoul area; theChungcheong region; the Honam-Jeju regions; and the Daegu-Gyeongbuk-Gangwon regions. In the southeast, 10 universities were selected, including Dongseo University, Pukyong National University and Gyeongsang National University.

The LINC+ project is scheduled to begin this year and to continue for the next five years. According to the Ministry of Education, this will be the largest financial support program it has funded to date, with 327.1 billion won in total investment. Dongseo University will receive up to 5 billion won every year until 2022.