In a ceremony held in the Global Room of the New Millennium Hall on April 28, DSU and the Busan Regional Small and Medium Venture Business

Administration signed an agreement for ‘the Establishment and Operation of the Dongseo University Small and Medium Business Contract

Department,’ which will begin operation in the second semester.

The Small and Medium Business Contract Department is taking advantage of a ‘preemployment-backward education’ form of talent nurturing

program that opens a degree course at a university based on industry demand in order to strengthen the innovation capabilities of SME workers and support their degree acquisition.

Additionally, DSU will further establish a Cloud Convergence Department in the master’s programs of its general graduate schools, and will recruit 20

workers who have been working for more than six months at small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as new students from the second semester of this year. Of particular interest to prospective students, 65 percent of tuition costs are waived for 2 years, and weekend and night courses are operated.

Choi Won-yeong, head of the Busan Regional Small and Medium Venture Business Administration, said, “Local SMEs who are having difficulties

in finding high-quality human resources are solving problems facing companies by nurturing and securing professional recruits on their own through the creation of this Small and Medium Business Contract Department at DSU. I feel assured that DSU will establish itself as a leading university

in demand-based industry-university cooperation.” Dongseo University President Chang Jekuk further added, “The Department of Computer Engineering, a specialized field taught at our university, will also contribute to strengthening the competitiveness of SMEs and the development of Busan’s

future industry by nurturing key personnel in the field of cloud computing, which is attracting attention as a new industry of the future.”