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.