KRIHS-IDB Urban Development Academy(KIUDA)-Small Private Online Course(SPOC)​

》​ Introduction​​​​​​​

On May 25, 2021, the Global Development Partnership Center (GDPC) and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) held the final session of a four-week-long small private online course (SPOC) of the KRIHS-IDB Urban Development Academy (KIUDA). For two weeks after the end of the courses, the participants created action plans for cooperation projects in the land and urban fields of their own countries and institutions. The participants presented their action plans in the final session and afterwards, sought ways to cooperate with KRIHS and IDB.

During the welcome speech, President Hyun Soo Kang of KRIHS highlighted that an online program was another means of continuing the collaborative relationship with IDB and the Latin America and the Caribbean (LACs) during the global pandemic. As the online platform allowed over double the number of participants this year compared with the previous years, more diverse types of collaborations are expected. Moreover, KRIHS will provide project incubation support to develop proposed action plans into a shaped application for consulting programs run by Korean governmental agencies