On July 10th, a delegation from the Innovation College of Korea visited the Beato Innovation District in Lisbon, hosted by the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program, INESC ID – Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores: Investigação e Desenvolvimento, and ITI – Interactive Technologies Institute (ITI).
Ki-Seok Nam, Head of the Project Team from the Innovation Support Project Group at the Council for the Innovation College of Korea (ICK), welcomed the delegation of ICK, a consortium established to promote innovative development among 104 specialist colleges in South Korea. The group is currently in Europe to explore research and development opportunities and collaborative initiatives such as the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program. Recently, South Korea has completed negotiations to become the first East Asian nation to ‘associate to’ the European Union’s Horizon Europe program, starting in 2025.
Silvia Castro, Executive Director of the CMU Portugal Program, launched the session and shared an overview of the Program’s initiatives. The round of presentations continued with Inês Lynce, President of INESC-ID and National Co-Director of CMU Portugal, and Nuno Nunes, President of ITI and National Co-Director of CMU Portugal, who presented an overview of both Institutes, their research work and ecosystems, and of the projects carried out in the areas of ICT. José Mota Leal, Project Manager of Beato Innovation District, also attended the meeting to introduce how the Hub has become an innovation center for creative and technological companies based in Lisbon and the Unicorn Factory Lisboa as a platform to support startups and scaleups. To close the meeting, Ricardo Pinto and Francisco Paiva from the Mobility and International Cooperation Office of the Instituto Superior Técnico shared an overview of the technological school.
