The Climate Change Response Project and Global Coexistence Project of Kookmin University (President Jeong Seung Ryul) participated in the '2024 HUSS Convergence Camp' held in Splas Lisom, Chungnam for three days and three nights from the 8th.

The 'Humanities and Society Convergence Talent Development Project', hosted by the Korea Research Foundation and the Ministry of Education, is a project to foster leading talents in the humanities and social fields by breaking down the boundaries between universities and majors to form a humanities and society convergence education system.

The HUSS Convergence Camp, hosted by the Ministry of Education and the Korea Research Foundation, was a large-scale event under the slogan, 'Wisdom from the humanities changes the world,' and was attended by 40 universities and 900 students from the humanities and social sciences. At Kookmin University, three faculty members and 31 students from the Climate Change Response Project, led by Kang Yoon-hee, head of the project, and one faculty member and 16 students from the Global Coexistence Project, led by Lee Dong-eun, deputy director, participated. Over the course of three days and four nights, students participated in hackathons to diagnose and solve social problems based on their humanities competencies, and attended specialized lectures prepared by each consortium across departments and universities.

At the lecture held on the 9th, Dr. Kim Sun Ae, a research professor at the Climate Change Response Project, delivered a passionate lecture on 'Climate Reality and ESG Management' and interacted with the students.

In the “Challenge! HUSS Golden Bell”,Cho Sang Heum(Department of Sociology) won the runner-up prize (Presidential Award of the National Research Foundation of Korea), and Lee Yoon Ji(Department of Russian and Eurasian Studies) won the third prize in the “Budget Market Idea Contest”.
Park Byung Young(Department of Pregnancy and Biomedical Engineering), who participated in the hackathon as a representative, said, “I was very passionate about the hackathon program. I would like to thank my teammates who worked together day and night for three days and four nights, and I was able to experience various perspectives on the future society by listening to the hackathon presentations of other consortium students."

Lee Yoo Jin(Department of Russian and Eurasian Studies), who participated in the camp as a representative of the academy, said, “I had a meaningful time with students from various schools who took courses from each consortium and shared their thoughts with each other. Based on the experience gained at the camp, I hope to develop the competencies necessary to become a convergence talent and set a concrete direction for my future career."

In this regard, Kookmin University's Climate Change Response Project and Global Coexistence Project plan to make further efforts to help students become convergence talents with humanistic and social skills and digital technology literacy through interdisciplinary exchanges.