Article in Keep in Touch, RWTH Aachen University's magazine for alumni.You will find more information on the ADeKo-website and on Facebook. In past years the conferences attracted up to 500 participants. From 2016 onwards it will alternately take place in Germany and Korea. The Joint Korean-German Conference is one of the most important events in German-Korean cooperation. The 8th Joint Korean-German Conference titled „Engineering for our Future“ is organised by ADeko and will take place at the International Congress Center in Dresden from 16th to 18th November 2016. The ADeKo conference now attracts considerable attention from the Korean press. The number of participants rises every year in 2015, there were more than 600.

Since 2010, ADeKo has organised a science conference on a specific topic that takes place every year in autumn and attracts strong sociopolitical involvement from both Germany and Korea.

Annual conference (every year in Autumn).

Its reputation is enhanced even further by high-ranking events such as the annual German-Korean Science Conference that also attract attention in Germany. The ADeKo umbrella organisation brings together Korean alumni with experience of Germany, thus raising its profile in the country. It officially became a registered society (e.V.) on 8 March 2013, and since the beginning of 2015, has largely funded itself by sponsorship and membership dues. ADeKo currently has around 7,000 members, tendency rising. They have a decisive influence on ADeKo’s profile. The members of ADeKo’s board include – by virtue of their office – the German ambassador, the President of the DAAD, Korea’s former prime minister Kim Hwang-Sik and other high-ranking political and scientific representatives of Korea. ADeKo is funded in connection with the target field “Strengthen research cooperation with the world’s best” in the federal government’s internationalisation strategy and the “Networking and Transfer” pillar of the federal government’s high-tech strategy. ADeKo also aims to raise the profile of German science and research in South Korea. Most of the associations are regional or university-based, and ADeKo also represents them externally as a kind of umbrella organisation. The network supports and bundles the interests of the alumni associations in Korea and was created for Koreans with experience of Germany. It is the world’s biggest network of Korean alumni who have lived, studied or conducted research in Germany and currently encompasses 48 organisations.

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