[Digital Today reporter Jin-ho Lee] South Korea and Italy will increase science and technology cooperation centred on three key areas, together with synthetic intelligence (AI), climate change and bio.
South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT stated on June 12 that it held the thirteenth Korea-Italy Joint Committee on Science and Technology in Rome on June 11 native time, collectively with Italy’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
The Korea-Italy joint committee is an official intergovernmental consultative physique operated below a bilateral science and technology cooperation settlement signed in 1984. This assembly was held for the primary time in 5 years because the twelfth assembly, which passed off on-line in 2021 as a result of impression of COVID-19. It was the primary face-to-face assembly between the 2 nations’ head delegations in 9 years because the eleventh assembly in 2017.
The two nations have pursued joint analysis based mostly on a science and technology cooperation implementation plan on a three-year cycle. They additionally participated collectively in 15 tasks below the multilateral analysis programme Horizon Europe.
The assembly was attended by Hwang Seong-hoon (황성훈), director basic for worldwide cooperation on the ministry, as head of the South Korean delegation, and Filippo La Rosa (필리포 라 로사), deputy director basic of the general public and cultural diplomacy bureau at Italy’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, as head of the Italian delegation, in addition to officers and researchers from the science and technology fields of each nations.
First, the 2 nations shared outcomes from a joint bio analysis challenge accomplished final 12 months, titled “Establishment of a plant-derived extracellular vesicle-based biotechnology platform.” Through the examine, researchers from the 2 nations established commonplace technology to exactly isolate and analyse extracellular vesicles, a pure drug supply car extracted from crops.
They additionally checked the standing of a chemistry and eco-friendly analysis challenge titled “Azetidine synthesis using a sustainable photocatalytic system.” A photocatalyst is a substance that absorbs gentle to extend the velocity of a chemical response. Azetidine is a four-membered ring compound containing a nitrogen atom, and is used to extend medicinal exercise in the method of creating new medicine.
They additionally mentioned future cooperation agendas. In the AI subject, the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) proposed attainable cooperation between the 2 nations centred on embodied intelligence, neuromorphic, and chiplet heterogeneous integration applied sciences, that are key semiconductor applied sciences for bodily AI. In the climate change subject, the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology shared analysis outcomes on genome-based flowering time management technology and the event of crops responding to modifications in climate environments. The analysis is being superior by way of shut communication with the University of Padua in Italy.
In addition, the Korea Brain Research Institute and the University of Bologna in Italy mentioned methods to increase analysis cooperation spanning your complete cycle from figuring out mechanisms of onset of mind ailments to creating therapeutics. The two sides can even step up working-level talks on plans to ascertain a world joint analysis centre to maintain cooperation in a steady method. The 14th Korea-Italy Joint Committee on Science and Technology is scheduled to be held in Seoul.
Hwang stated belief and science and technology capabilities between South Korea and Italy, which have carried out joint analysis duties, are extending to the multilateral joint analysis area of Horizon Europe. He stated the 2 nations will mix their robust technological capabilities to ascertain themselves as main nations in world science and technology.