GWANGJU < invest Korea

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(GWANGJU=Yonhap News) Gwangju City announced on September 19 that it successfully won the 2018 ERC Support Center Project jointly with Chonnam National University offered by the Ministry of Science and ICT.

It will carry out research that can be aligned with applied science, such as battery, fuel cell, membrane, photolysis of carbon dioxide and fluorescence which will lead the future green energy market. The project will be supported by the government with KRW 13.5 billion by 2025 making the total of KRW 17.7 billion.

The Project is carried out by the Ministry every year in four fields including science and engineering, natural science, fundamental medicine and convergence.

It is the first time for Chonnam University to be selected for the ERC project since it has started in 1990.

The research center will dramatically shorten the technology development period based on the accumulated knowledge through the result of energy material experiment by using Artificial Intelligence, the key technology of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

The center will develop technologies that can be utilized in applied field, such as battery, fuel cell, Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLED) and hydrogen production, by using AI-ionics material platform.

"The project is expected to help revitalize energy material field as the new growth engine," said Lee Sang-bae, the Director General of Strategic Industry Bureau of the City, adding, "It will particularly enhance competitiveness of Gwangju's energy industry by nurturing creative personnel, securing fundamental technology and providing decent jobs."

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** This article was translated from Korean.

Source: Yonhap News (September 19, 2018)