Kookmin University (President Jeong Seung ryul)'s Next Generation Communication Business Unit (Director Park Jun-seok) will hold the "Multidisciplinary Capstone Design (Next Generation Communication) Award" on June 13 (Thursday).

In June 2023, Kookmin University was selected as the lead university in the field of 'next-generation communication' of the Advanced Field Innovation Convergence University Project (local government participation type) hosted by the Ministry of Education and the National Research Foundation of Korea, and is forming a next-generation communication consortium with the participation of five universities and local governments, including Seoul National University, Ulsan National University of Science and Technology, Jeonnam National University, and Korea Aerospace University, and Gwangju Metropolitan City.

The High-tech Innovation Convergence University Project is a project that breaks down the boundaries between universities and crosses the barriers between departments, enabling students to receive education in any high-tech field they want, regardless of their major. The Next Generation Communication Consortium is developing and operating joint curricula, flexibilizing faculty and academic systems, promoting corporate participation projects (WE-Meet project), and operating small-scale majors (microdegrees) so that students can complete curricula in cutting-edge fields regardless of their majors.

The Multidisciplinary Capstone Design (Next Generation Communication) Ⅰ-Ⅱ+ is the representative curriculum of the Next Generation Communication Consortium and is a convergence and convergence talent training program in which students form a team through credit exchange among universities in the consortium and design, plan, and produce projects based on the major knowledge of undergraduate students on topics required by industry and local communities. 

In the first stage (1st semester, summer semester), the students will form a team, discover a topic, and brand a startup product through expert mentoring, and in the second stage (2nd semester, winter semester), they will verify the commercialization of the result, submit a startup and technology transfer plan, present an IR, and receive 5 credits for completing the regular semesters (1st and 2nd semesters).

The award will be held on Thursday, June 13, 2024, from 15:00 at the Academic Conference Hall on the 1st floor of Kookmin University Headquarters, and will consist of an event where seven teams (IAM, SSM, PersonaFit, GV, Spoting, VisionMesh, and VIST) of the Next Generation Communication Consortium University Alliance will participate to comprehensively evaluate and share the results of the first semester of the 2024 academic year. Through the awards, the creativity, convergence, and marketability of the ideas will be evaluated by 11 industry experts (CEO, CFO) in the field of next-generation communications to provide opportunities such as whether to enter the second stage, support for the development and production of startup products, and opportunities to participate in the booth at CES 2025, the world's largest consumer electronics expo scheduled to be held in Las Vegas, USA, and connect with employment and startups.

As it is an open evaluation, all students and university members who are interested in cutting-edge fields and interdisciplinary capstone design (next-generation communication) can attend and listen to the creative ideas and presentations of participating teams.

"Through the Multidisciplinary Capstone Design (Next Generation Communication) Award, it will be an opportunity to expand startup linkages and technology transfer based on the creative ideas of undergraduate students who applied next-generation communication, which is the core technology of the industry, and to discover talents in cutting-edge fields." "We will improve the understanding of the class through open evaluation and develop it into an innovative convergence and convergence signature course that combines novel ideas through exchanges between universities and between science and non-science disciplines," said Park Jun Seok, head of the Next Generation Communication Project at Kookmin University.