- DGIST and National Human Rights Commission of Korea sign MOU to promote integrity education.
- Collaboration aims to instill integrity values among students and staff through structured training, grievance counseling, and regular programs.
- DGIST President and NHRC Chairperson stress the role of ethics in science and tech leadership for Korea’s future.
The Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology (DGIST; President Kunwoo Lee) and the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (Chairperson Chulhwan Yu) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU), at the Main Administrative Building, DGIST, and made an announcement that they will be cooperating in education to disseminate a culture of integrity. The MOU was designed to create an educational bedrock for internalizing awareness on integrity among generations of undergraduate and graduate students to come, enhancing integrity among faculty and staff members, and enshrining a framework for the protection of the rights and interests of the university.
The two institutions aim to expand collaboration in a wide range of fields to promote a culture of integrity, such as (i) education in order to instill integrity values among undergraduate and graduate students, (ii) education in order to enhance integrity among faculty and staff members, (iii) advocating the operations of collaborative integrity education in the university, (iv) routine courses for integrity education, and (v) counseling for and settlement of grievances among undergraduate and graduate students and faculty and staff members.
DGIST President Kunwoo Lee added, "Because science and technology is an area that has considerable influence over society in general, we will collaborate with the National Human Rights Commission of Korea to advance systematic integrity education. We will ensure sustainable development and social trust by cultivating talented people in science and technology by not only providing them with excellent skills, but also proper values and sense of integrity awareness".
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National Human Rights Commission Chairperson Chulhwan Yu stated, "With the signing of this MOU, I hope the students of DGIST will become good leaders with morals and guide Korea's science and technology in a proper direction".
DGIST builds future values for the country and the region through interdisciplinary research and education in innovation, and chooses physical AI, human digital twins, and quantum sensing as its three strategic fields to promote technology commercialization and establish an industrial ecosystem. In addition, DGIST has global research competitiveness and is the fourth in the world and the first in Korea in terms of citations per faculty in the QS World University Rankings. DGIST seeks to further solidify collaboration with top-ranking organizations in Korea and globally to become a difference-making institution in promoting national science and technology development as an innovative organization.
