The second EU-South Korea Digital Partnership Council, co-chaired by the Commissioner for the Internal Market, Thierry Breton, and the Korean Minister for Science, Information and Communication Technologies, Lee Jong-Ho, took place in Brussels on Tuesday 26 March.
The aim of the meeting was to take stock of the progress made thanks to the cooperation between the two parties. The EU and Korea agreed to continue their partnership in the fields of semiconductors, 5G, quantum technology, artificial intelligence (AI) and cyber security.
More specifically, the Commission and Korea launched a joint semiconductor research programme to expand cooperation between development teams. A number of joint projects and research and innovation initiatives are due to be selected in June 2024 and should get under way by the end of the year.
A call for proposals on research topics in the fields of radio access networks (RAN) and 6G was launched at the Partnership Council. The selected projects should be established at the end of the year.
To facilitate the implementation of these projects, the Commission and the Republic of Korea yesterday concluded negotiations aimed at making the Asian country part of the Horizon Europe framework programme for research and innovation. (Original version in French by Isalia Stieffatre)