EKC 2017 was held from Aug.20th to 24th in Glasgow. EKC is an annual conference where scientists, engineers,
government officials, industry exeives, and policy-makers from both Korea and Europe share expertise and
ideas and develop networking and collaboration. EKC has been held annually in different European countries
and has become the most important scientific and social event, bringing scientists and engineers from
Europe and Korea together.

KISTI also participated in EKC 2018, promoting its KOSEN(Korea Scientists and Engineers Network) project which is connecting
Korean scientists and engineers in 70 countries with 130,000 members. At the Korea-Europe R&D forum held on Aug.22nd,
Dr.Choi Hee-yoon delivered a speech on "The Role of KISTI in the 4th Industrial Revolution Age". She explained knowledge
infrastructure KISTI has been developing as a national leading research institute of science and technology.
Especially, she emphasized drastic challenges of R&D environment and to cope with that, she said " it is highly necessary
to build virtuous circle of dynamic data ecosystem where industry-academia and research institutes can share the knowledge,
data and can cooperate together.