South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT mentioned on Thursday it held the ninth Korea-France Joint Committee on Science and Technology with France’s Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Space (MESRE) on the National Science and Technology Advisory Council in Seoul.
The joint committee is a daily consultative physique run to share science and expertise coverage and establish cooperation duties between the 2 nations based mostly on a Korea-France science and expertise cooperation settlement signed in 1981. The ninth assembly was held to mark the a hundred and fortieth anniversary of diplomatic ties and the French president’s go to to South Korea.
Science and ICT Minister Bae Kyung-hoon (배경훈), additionally deputy prime minister, and Phillippe Baptiste, minister of increased training, analysis and area, reaffirmed that South Korea and France are key companions in main strategic core expertise fields resembling synthetic intelligence (AI) and quantum.
Major South Korean analysis establishments together with the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Seoul National University and Korea University signed memorandums of understanding with France’s largest nationwide analysis establishment, the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), and agreed to develop analysis cooperation and exchanges.
Kang Sang-wook (강상욱), director common for planning and coordination on the ministry, and Jean-Luc MOULLE served as chief representatives for the joint committee and mentioned detailed cooperation measures. The two sides reviewed main science and expertise insurance policies and cooperation achievements to this point. They shared the outcomes of exchanges since 2018 between South Korea’s science and engineering specialisation universities programme (Okay-STAR) and France’s INSA Group, and agreed to develop the scope to cooperation amongst universities throughout France to put the groundwork for science and expertise training cooperation in Europe.
The Innopolis Foundation and France’s SATT Network reviewed the standing of cooperation on commercialising deep-tech applied sciences. They agreed to develop cooperation to construct an innovation ecosystem, together with figuring out and matching company demand for proof-of-concept, linking to funding and selling worldwide joint analysis.
The two sides additionally mentioned methods to develop cooperation in key strategic science and expertise fields. They shared every nation’s principal AI methods, and the Korea AI Safety Institute proposed cooperation measures resembling constructing a coverage dialogue channel with France’s National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (INRIA) and exchanges of analysis personnel.
In quantum, KAIST and French quantum computing firm Quandela agreed to strengthen cooperation on quantum {hardware} manufacturing and constructing provide chains for supplies, elements and tools utilizing KAIST’s nationwide quantum fab infrastructure, based mostly on three years of cooperation in quantum expertise. Quandela agreed to arrange a global cooperation centre referred to as the Quandela Hub at KAIST from 2026 as half of its entry into South Korea, and to collectively 추진 training, analysis and industry-academia cooperation initiatives.
In theoretical physics, the 2 sides mentioned cooperation measures to safe international management in physics. They agreed to strengthen the partnership between the Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (APCTP) and CNRS and to work collectively on multilateral analysis cooperation throughout physics.
Bae mentioned the joint committee served as an opportunity to raise the science and expertise partnership between South Korea and France to the next stage in line with the a hundred and fortieth anniversary of diplomatic ties and the French president’s go to to South Korea. He mentioned South Korea will carefully align with France in key strategic science and expertise fields resembling AI and quantum to safe management collectively in an period of international expertise hegemony.