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Korea Institute of Construction Technology Education (President Dae Chol Kwon) and the Korea International Cooperation Agency (President Won Sam Chang), an organization in charge of grant aid, conducted invitational Capacity Building for Municipality on SMART Environment City in Thailand for 14 days from September 1st to September 14th.

This training is the first year program of SMART City that start this year. The participants were 14, 5 from Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, 9 from each local municipality from Thailand.

In this training, the participants learn Korea's SMART city policy, its implementation and regional entities’, strategies on SMART city planning with big data and digital twin simulation, and SMART green city are introduced through lectures, and ways to improve their knowledge that derived in the field of SMART City. In addition, participants had an opportunity to experience SMART City technologies through World Smart City Expo 2024 and smart city control centers about the current system and status in Korea.

The participants share the various ideas and systems with current status through data on the SMART City in Thailand, and make presentations in three different groups, government level, big city level, local level for the establishing action plan for future of SMART City in Thailand.

Korea Institute of Construction Technology Education (President Min-Woo Park) and the Korea International Cooperation Agency (Chairman Hyuk-sang Son), an organization in charge of grant aid, conducted online training Capacity Development for Women Construction Engineers in Africa  for 10 days from August 30th to September 8th.

This training is the last course of the 'Capacity Building for female construction engineers in Africa' program conducted by the Education Institute since 2019, and the participants were 15 female construction engineers belonging to the Ministry of Works and Housing in Ghana, Africa.

As movement between countries is restricted due to COVID-19, KICTE and KOICA have been conducting online training since last year.

In this training, Korea's human resource development, science and technology policies, and the system for nurturing female scientists and engineers were introduced through lectures, and ways to improve them were derived in the field of nurturing female construction workers in Africa. In addition, participants had an opportunity to hear about the current status and support cases of the policy project to foster female scientists and engineers from Ji-hye Kwon, the head of the International Cooperation Center and the working group of WISET in Korea.

The participants shared the current status through data on the training and statistics of female construction engineers in Ghana, and announced plans and activities for the establishment of the Women Builders Association under the Ministry of Worksn and Housing.

Josephine Essie Kpesese, Principal Assistant Registrar, who participated in this training, said, “Through this online training, I was able to experience Korea's female construction engineers training system and excellent construction technology. We hope to be able to cooperate with you continually.”

KICTE has released the <Educational Materials for Road Pavement Technology, Vietnam> to share the knowledge and experiences regarding Warm-Mix Asphalt Technology applied in Korea and Vietnam as a part of KOREA ODA program. Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport(MOLIT) and Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Techonology(KICT) implemented the <Project for Optimization of Warm-Mix Asphalt Technology Applied to Vietnam's Roads> from 2018. The project should have been completed by the end of 2020, however, due to the outbreak of COVID-19, the project duration is extended by 2021. The educational materials have also been produced to overcome the current situation for restriction of crossing the borders.

KICTE and KOICA co-hosted its 2nd training program for female engineers of Ghana October 16 - 23, 2020. 

Due to COVID-19, this program was implemented as online program. 

The 1st invitational program was carried out in October 2019. 

KICTE and KICT(Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology) co-hosted its 2nd invitational training program for public officials and engineers of Vietnam for Road Pavement Technical Improvement from November 2 - 9, 2019. The 1st invitatioanl program was implemented in March 2019.

KICTE hosted invitaional fellowship program - Capacity Development for Women Construction Engineers in Africa from October 10 to October 30, 2019 supported by Korea International Cooperation Agency(KOICA).

Fellows from Ghana, The Gambia, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Tanzania were participated in lectures, study visits, and cultural activities.

Also, they had a chance to meet Korean women construction engineers - KOWSAE while they were staying in Korea.

You can also watch the video - the country reports presented by each country.

KICTE hosted the 3rd CON-NECT programs for 13 international students who are studying in the field of construction, infrastructure, urban planning, and energy. Connecters are from 13 countries and 5 schools. All connecters came to Korea with KOICA scholarship program.

KICTE and KOICA hosted the 3rd training program for public officials in Iraq from April 4 to 20, 2019. 18 experts from Iraq were participated in this course - lectures, study visits, and cultural experiences. 

KICTE and KICT(Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology) co-hosted the 1st invitational training program for public officials and engineers of Vietnam for Road Pavement Technical Improvement from March 23 - 29, 2019.