First Korean University participated in the international event hosted by the French government.
School of Architecture Signed exchange and cooperation MOU with the EAPV, a world top 5 college in the architecture field.
The Exchange including up to 3 annual exchange students will become fully fledged.
[September 4, 2012]

 The YU School of Architecture (Dean Kang, Joo-Won), which is celebrating its 60th anniversary, entered Paris, the home of the world famous architect, ‘Alexandre Gustave Eiffel‘ (1832~1923).

 Recently, the YU School of Architecture signed an MOU with France's EAPV (Ecole d' Architecture de Paris la Villette EVPA) promising exchange and cooperation. EAPV is a prestigious ranking in the top 5 of the architecture field together with the US Harvard Graduate School of Architecture and the Cooper Union School of Architecture, British AA School, and German RWTH Aachen University of Technology's Department of Architecture.

 With this MOU, the two universities will exchange up to 3 students in their fourth to fifth year majoring in architecture for the next five years to offer the opportunity for global education, as well as an exchange student program that accepts each other's academic credits in order to strengthen their global partnership.

 Prior to this, the YU School of Architecture became the first Korean university to participate in the 'Grand Paris International Workshop' hosted by the French government. This international workshop is in its second year since first starting in 2010 as the AIGP (l'Atelier International du Grand Paris) for 'Le Grand Paris', a redevelopment project of Paris by former President Nicolas Sarkozy.

 The YU School of Architecture, which received funding from the Educational Capacity Strengthening Project, co-hosted with the EAPV an international workshop based on coming up with an advanced, future city on the outskirts of Paris at Palais de Tokyo from July 19 - 27. YU School of Architecture Professor Baek, Seung-Man also participated as joint tutors in this international workshop together with Professors Jean Magerand and Claire Bailly. 10 YU School of Architecture students and 18 students from French universities such as EAPV, national architecture universities in Versailles and Strasbourg, ENSCI-Paris, ESAG-Paris, and EIVP also participated in this event.

 The YU School of Architecture's first step in Paris is evaluated to be very successful. Bertrand Lemoine, the director of AIGP said that the results were very promising and said, "I hope the partnership between the YU School of Architecture and EAPV becomes stronger and that many great collaborative works result from this partnership." Results of the workshop will be published in a book issued by AIGP and they will be put on display at the Science Hall of la Villette, together with international seminars, from this coming December until October of next year.