EU and South Korea sign research cooperation agreements
Montag, November 27th, 2006The European Union signed two scientific cooperation agreements with one the world’s fastest growing research powers - the Republic of Korea - on 22 November.
The science and technology (S&T) agreement will enable researchers from the EU and South Korea to participate in one another’s research programmes and protects intellectual property rights (IPR), while a specific agreement on fusion energy research will promote collaboration in fusion research programmes. This is intended to complement work within the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project, to which both the EU and South Korea are party. The new agreements can only enhance the cooperation that is already ongoing between EU and South Korean researchers. Not only are both partners in ITER; they are both also signatories to the Galileo project to develop Europe’s first satellite navigation system.

