Dr.Michael Resch, Director of HLRS(High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart) has visited KISTI on March 27th. His visit aimed to discuss mutual collaboration on COVISE between HLRS and KISTI. COVISE stands for COllaborative VIsualization and Simulation Environment. It is an extendable distributed software environment to integrate simulations, postprocessing and visualization functionalities in a seamless manner. KISTI and HLRS are working together to develop parallel renderer for HEMOS-Fluid post  processing which allows to develop large scale post processing for large data displays and desktop. Dr.Choi Heeyoon, Preisden of  KISTI and Dr.Michael Resch have agreed to strengthen mutual collaboration in developing S/W and supporting SMEs by utilizing resources of both sides.  

KISTI has organized 2018 Korean Scientists and Leaders Forum on Feb. 25th-26th in Barcelona in cooperation with Ministry of Science and ICT. This forum aimed to draw an idea and plan for the 4th industrial revolution through the open presentation and discussion among participants. This forum was consisted of 3 main sessions, the 4th industrial revolution and job creation, Science Diplomacy and Bioeconomy. About 20 korean scientists working in Eureope and 6 members of the National Assembly and Minister of Ministry of Science and ICT have participated in the forum as speakers and debators. They shared their special knowledge on each topic and exchaged ideas on the current  issues in the session. 

Dr.Choi Hee-yoon was appointed 7th President of KISTI by National Council of Science and Technology on Jan. 24th. She has her PhD. on Informatics by YonSei University and developved her career as the director of Infomation Service Center and Knowledge Service Center in KISTI for the last 30 years. At the inaugural address, she suggested KISTI staff to discover their own strength and to advance the day of science strong Korea based on knowledge infrastructre. To do so, she said she will set  her priority on the following R&D areas; -to lay the foundation for joint application of research data, key resources of open science ear -to strengthen information analysis service on national agenda issues -to expand supercomputing support for 4th industrial revolution Dr.Coi has concluded her address by saying " let's open the new era for Sciene Strong Korea together"

To support and facilitate S&T capacity of Ethiopia, KISTI has organized 2017 KISTI Global Academy in cooperatoin with STEPI(Science and Technology Policy Institute) in KISTI head office on Nov.14-16th. This program aims to provide knowledge and experience on S&T infrastructure, Natinal R&D Information Service, Modeling and Simulation for product  design and development, Open Science Policy and Service. During the workshop, participants of STIC(Science and Technology Information Center) of Ethiopia had discussion with KISTI speakers over the way of building S&T Infrastructure in Korea and difficulities and barriers KISTI had had while implementing those services as public institute. As a part of program, they also visited one of SMEs, a member of  KISTI's membercompanies to see how they worked with KISTI and made success story utilizing KISTI information serivce. In concluding the program, KISTI, STEPI and STIC have agreed to work together in promoting the capacity of STIC by means of organizing technical meeting, training program and exchange program for information specialist in STIC.          

National Research Council of Science and Technology(NST) and Catalonia Trade & Investment Agency have organized joint workshp on Oct.20-24 in Barcelona. During the workshop,NST and ACCIO have concluded MoU which aims to lay the foundation for promoting joint R&D and technology transfer between Korea and Catalonia. KISTI has participated in technical meeting and introduced its R&D activites and COMPAS system to I2CAT, NaSalle and EUROcat. This meeting was arranged by the demand of Catalonia and KISTI, KRRI and KIST whose technologies were matched in advance participated in technical meeting and met with their counter institutes and companies.During the meeting with Catalonican institutes, participants shared advantage of their technology and discussed how to cooperate to joint R&D for commercialization in Spain and EU market.

KISTI organized a seminar for its global joint R&D projects during the UKC 2017 which was held at Washington D.C. during Aug.09th-12th. This seminar aimed to introduce R&D project and to share performance among researchers partipateing in the project. During the seminar session, 5 projects were presented as follows; -Formational Bounds of Link Prediction for Collaboration Networks -Optimization of global high-resolution nonhydrostatic model(MPAS) and development of service tool   for large data analysis -Enhance the visualization and analysis capabilities of NCAR's VAPOR package -New data mining models to analyze big value networks data -Developing big data analytics framework for U.S. industry intelligence   Researchers and coordinators of projects shared their experience and discussed how to advance their research project in the future. 

KISTI has concluded MoU with SATI(State Agency for Technology Innovation) of MOST in Vietnam on April 18th. This MoU aims to facilitate mutual cooperation in supporing SMEs in Vietnam with science and technology information. KISTI and SATI have agreed to utilize COMPAS(Competitive Information Analysis Service), an On-line analysis service to help users make informed decisions on their R&D and to provide means to analyze the competitive environment(patents and journal articles) of  TOI(Technology of Interest) for SMEs in Vietnam and discussed the way to introduce COMPAS into Vietnam. 

Mr.Alexander Shumilin, Chairman of the State Committee on Science and Technology of the Repulic of Belarus and his S&T delegation have visited KISTI on April 12th. During the visit, there were briefed on National S&T Infrastructure and Sevice developed by KISTI and discussed how to proceed S&T cooperation between Korea and Belarus. Dr.Hahn Sunhwa and Mr.Shumillin have agreed to support S&T cooperation in the field of science, technology and innovation between two countries. In line with this regard, KISTI and BELISA(the Belarusian Institute of System Analysis and Information Support of Scientific and Technical Sphere under the State Committeee on Science and Technology of the Repulic of Belarus) have conclude MoU focused on promoting science, technology and innovation activities and cooperation between Belarusian and Korean legal entities including rearch organization, universites, business enterprisess and individual scientists and experts based on the principles of equality and mutual benefit. 

KISTI has organized 2016 KISTI Global Academy Program on Nov.7th-11th at its head office. The objective of this program is to provide participants with opportunities for expanding their global network and sharing their knowledge and experience in providng sceince and technology information infrastructure. This year, STPI from Taiwan, CCSTD from Uzbekistan, NSTC from Cambodia and NASATI from Vietnam have participated and KISTI has presented its supercomputing service, information analysis and NTIS. Participants also presented their information service infrastructure and S&T service enviroment.    After the workshop, participants had a chance to visit one of KISTI's member company  and learned about how SMEs is using KISTI information for their prod  development and commercialization. As a S&T ODA Program, KISTI has been organizing global academy program since 2015 and will expand participating countries next year to faciliate S&T cooperation among developing countries.     

CCSTD(Committee for Coordination of S&T Development) of Uzbekistan has organized an Internatiional Innovation Forum on May 11-13 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Among the invited participants to share their experience are U.S. U.K, Germany. Korea and so on. After 2 days of presentation and discussion, participants of the forum recognized that reforms conducted  in Uzbekistan in the field of government support of scientific research and organization of innovation activities produced a tangible result. High international level studies are carried out in the field of genetic engineering, biotechnology, cellular technology, chemistry, and materrial sciences. In order to further improve the mechanisms to support innovation activites in Uzbekistan, the participants of the forum recommended 12 suggestins to the government of Uzbekistan and relevnat issues with KISTI are as follows: In order to organize the information flow for the development of innovative economy to provide access for the development of innovative economy to provide access for the scientific community of Uzbekistan, explore the experience of KISTI including the analytical service tool "COMPAS" is highly necessary.