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Dongseo University’s President Jekuk Chang announced on November 3rd that DSU has been selected as a New Project Group for the 2021 CAMPUS Asia (Collective Action for Mobility Programs of University Students in Asia) Korea-Japan-China Expansion Project by the Ministry of Education and the Korea University Education Council.

CAMPUS Asia is a student exchange project in the field of higher education aimed at promoting mutual understanding by offering joint and dual degrees between universities in Korea, Japan, and China. The program began operating in 2011 and is being expanded in 2021 as CAMPUS Asia Plus to include ASEAN national universities.

Korea, Japan, and China began screening for the 2021 expansion project in September this year, finally selecting 20 New Project Groups through an agreement process at the end of October. Among the 20 New Project Groups, Dongseo University, Seoul National University, Korea University, Yonsei University, Pusan National University, Pukyong National University, and Korea Maritime University were selected in Korea.

Dongseo University's CAMPUS Asia department will add Japan’s Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University to its existing partners: Ritsumeikan University in Japan and Guangdong University of Foreign Studies in China. The new mobile campus will be jointly operated by Korea, Japan, and China and will seek to nurture global leaders in East Asia by establishing a joint curriculum and online joint curriculum among the three nations. Dongseo University has already introduced a new department for program operations and a global life-study linkage program centered on a best-practices approach to learning experiences in the three countries.

CAMPUS Asia Plus universities will be provided with program operating expenses, including for the development of online and offline joint curriculums, totaling about 120 million won per year for the next five years. Also, the project will provide settlement subsidies and emergency subsidies as well as stay expenses for dispatched students.

CAMPUS Asia was adopted as a new project at the third Korea-Japan-China summit in May 2010 and went through a first phase pilot project (2011-2015) and a second phase main project (2016-2021). As a result of efforts for educational cooperation and human exchange in the three countries, a total of 6,625 students have participated in student exchanges and 497 students have obtained multiple degrees.