AKCF - ASEAN Korea Cooperation Fund

AEC

Business Planning Workshop for NTFP Social Enterprises in Da Nang, Viet Nam

A business planning workshop was held in Da Nang, Viet Nam from 26 to 28 August 2025. The three-day workshop was hosted by NTFP-EP Viet Nam and the Southern Institute for Ecology (SIE), in partnership with Borneo Chic and PARARA of Indonesia, and Plantsville Health Products of the Philippines. The workshop is part of the “Capacity Building on Enhancing Resilience to Forest Fire, and Strengthening Local Livelihood, and Market Linkages in Cambodia,…

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ASCC

AKCMM 2nd MRC Meeting and Study Tour in the Philippines

AEC

Conference on Shaping ASEAN’s Critical Mineral Future

AEC

New Students Orientation for ASPP Fall 2025 Intake

The orientation for newly admitted Master’s degree students under the ASEAN Smart-City Professional Programme was held on 1 September 2025 at Seoul National University (SNU), one of the most prestigious universities in Korea. This programme is supported by the ASEAN-Korea Cooperation Fund (AKCF) as part of the “Capacity Building Project for Data-driven Smart City Planning”. Implemented by the Global R&DB Centre at SNU since…

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ASCC

FLY 2025 Marks the Conclusion of the ‘ASEAN-ROK Film Leaders Incubator’

AEC

1st In-Situ Training Course on Critical Minerals Management & Strategy for Sustainable Environment in ASEAN

AEC

ASPP Short-Term Training 2025

52 officials and experts from ASEAN Member States began a two-week training under the “Capacity Building Project for Data-Driven Smart City Planning”, also known as ASEAN Smart City Professional Program (ASPP) on Monday, 25 August 2025. Funded by the ASEAN-Korea Cooperation Fund (AKCF), this marks the third year of the short-term training, held at the Seoul National University (SNU), one of Korea’s most prestigious educational institutions.…

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ASCC

ASEAN-Korea Cooperation for Methane Mitigation (AKCMM) Project Launched in Malaysia

ASCC

CASA 3rd Project Steering Committee Meeting

ASCC

The 1st Regional Consultative Workshop on the Comprehensive Review of the ASEAN Strategic Plan for Culture and the Arts (2016-2025) and the Development of New Work Plan

Jakarta, 17 July 2025 – The 1st Regional Consultative Workshop on the Comprehensive Review of the ASEAN Strategic Plan for Culture and the Arts (2016–2025) and the Development of a New Work Plan was convened in ASEAN Secretariat/Headquarters to assess the implementation and effectiveness of the current Strategic Plan. Led by the ASEAN Secretariat's Culture and Information Division (CID), the workshop was attended by H.E. Lee Jang-keun,…

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ASCC

2nd Knowledge Sharing Program on ASEAN-Korea Integrated Municipal Solid Waste Management

ASCC

FLY POST LAB 2025

ASCC

ASEAN + ROK Conference on Care and Support for Older Persons

The ASEAN + ROK Conference on Care and Support for Older Persons under the theme: “Nurturing a Shared Future: Bridging Generations, Strengthening Communities, and Innovating Care” was successfully held from 30 June to 1 July 2025 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Supported by the ASEAN-Korea Cooperation Fund (AKCF), the conference was hosted by the Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development of Malaysia in collaboration with the Ministry…

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ASCC

Busan Film Commission x KF ASEAN Culture House Special Exhibition “Brise-Soleil and Rounded Corners”

AEC

Building Capacity in Critical Mineral Exploration: 2nd In-Class Training Course

ASCC

ASEAN-Korea Music Festival 2025 ROUND in Malaysia Wraps Up with Resounding Success

Hosted by KBS, sponsored by the ASEAN-Korea Cooperation Fund (AKCF), and supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Korea and the ASEAN Secretariat, the ASEAN-Korea Music Festival 2025 ROUND was held successfully on 21–22 June 2025 at ZEPP Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. Held in celebration of the 65th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Korea and Malaysia, and in recognition of Malaysia’s chairmanship of ASEAN in 2025, the festival…

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AEC

Korea-ASEAN Digital Academy Launched in Indonesia

APSC

Supporting Enhanced Victim Assistance in Viet Nam

AEC

Korea-ASEAN Digital Academy Launched Its First Academy in Lao PDR

On 29 April 2025, the Korea-ASEAN Digital Academy officially launched its first academy at the Institute of ICT (IICT) in Vientiane, Lao PDR. The Korea-ASEAN Digital Academy project aims to develop digital talent and create job-linked opportunities. Over the coming year, approximately 200 students will benefit from these digital and AI-focused education programs, strengthening the country’s digital talent pool and contributing to the…

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AEC

[Project] Korea-ASEAN Digital Academy

AEC

ASPP Students Engage in Technology and Team Spirit Through World IT Show 2025 and SNU Sports Day

ASCC

ASEAN-ROK Film Community Programme Concludes Its 11-Year Journey in Busan

The Busan Film Commission (Chairperson: Kang Sung Kyu) has announced the full schedule for the 2025 ASEAN-ROK Film Community Programme, marking the final edition of the initiative to be held in Busan. Launched in 2012, the ASEAN-ROK Film Community Programme has served as a unique platform for knowledge-sharing and collaborative growth between Korea and ASEAN countries. The initiative leverages Busan’s experience and infrastructure as a leading…

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AEC

Third Technical & Database Workshops to Advance ASEAN's Critical Minerals Management and Strategy for Sustainable Environment

AEC

Kickoff Event for Building High-Performance Computing Infrastructure and Capacity in ASEAN

ASCC

ASCEND Programme Takes a Step Forward with the 2nd Competency Assessment

Quezon City, 10-14 February 2025 – The 2nd ASEAN Standards and Certification for Experts in Disaster Management (ASCEND) Competency Assessment was successfully held at the Armed Forces of the Philippines Education, Training and Doctrine Command (AFPETDC) in Camp General Emilio Aguinaldo, Quezon City, Philippines from 10-13 February 2025. The assessment was co-hosted by the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) of the Philippines and the AHA Centre,…

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ASCC

Handover Ceremony of Air Quality Monitoring System to Cambodia

AEC

Socialisation Workshop on the Implementation Plan for the Framework for CLMV Development

AEC

[Project] Korea-ASEAN AI Development/Startup Competition

Project tittle: Korea-ASEAN AI Development/Startup Competition Budget: USD 2.19M Proponent: National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA) Period: 2024-2029 Project Description Korea-ASEAN AI Development/Startup Competition Project involves organizing and hosting an annual AI competition for Korea-ASEAN start-ups and young developers. The fostering of specialized talent will be essential for sustainable digital innovation and growth, and…

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AEC

[Project] Building HPC Infrastructure and HPC Capacity for ASEAN Data Utilization

ASCC

Celebrating 35 Years of ASEAN-Korea Dialogue Relations with a Spectacular Music Festival in Lao PDR: ROUND in LAO PDR

ASCC

The 3rd ASEAN-ROK Children’s Reading Culture Development Committee (AKRCC)

Seoul, 31 October 2024 - The 3rd ASEAN-ROK Children’s Reading Culture Development Committee (AKRCC) General Meeting of the project titled, “ASEAN Children’s Reading Culture Development Project,” was convened by the National Library for Children & Young Adults (NLCY) of the Republic of Korea from 28 - 30 October 2024 in Seoul, Korea. The three days meeting shared and evaluated the achievements of the project implementation…

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ASCC

[Project] Comprehensive Review of the ASEAN Strategic Plan for Culture and the Arts (2016-2025) and Development of a New Work Plan

ASCC

[Project] ASEAN - Korea Cooperation on methane Mitigation

AEC

[Project] Korea-ASEAN Digital Academy

Project tittle: Korea - ASEAN Digital Academy Budget: USD 4.5M Proponent: National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA) Period: 2024-2029 Project Description Korea-ASEAN Digital Academy Project aims to develop educational interventions to nurture future talent – a key resource for digital transformation. It focuses on operating digital academies to enhance the workforce in the ASEAN region in the fields of AI and data utilization This…

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ASCC

[Project] Learning and Development Programme for Community and Corporate Affairs Department

APSC

[Project] ASEAN-ROK Training Course on Crime Scene Investigation (CSI): Building Capacities for Regional Investigators through Best Practices and Experience Sharing

ASCC

[Project Completion] Symposium on ASEAN Identity and Strengthening ASEAN-ROK Cooperation: Now and Beyond

Project: Symposium on ASEAN Identity and Strengthening ASEAN-ROK Cooperation: Now and Beyond Proponent: ASEAN Secretariat Period: July 2019 - January 2024 Project Summary The Symposium on ASEAN Identity project was approved in 2019 and implemented by the Culture and Information Division at the ASEAN Secretariat. The project was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic until 2022, when it was finally implemented. Funded by the ASEAN-Korea Cooperation…

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ASCC

[Project Completion] KONNECT ASEAN – An ASEAN-ROK Art and Culture Programme

AEC

ASEAN – Korea Collaborative Initiative: Critical Minerals Management and Strategy for Sustainable Environment in ASEAN

ASCC

Clean Air Sustainable ASEAN (CASA): The 2nd Technical Meeting

Jakarta, 13-14 June 2024 - The 2nd Technical Meeting of the project titled, “Clean Air for Sustainable ASEAN (CASA),” was organized by the Project Management Unit (PMU) at Seoul National University. The meeting was attended by the government officials and local researchers from Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR and Thailand. The representatives from the ASEAN Secretariat and ASEAN-Korea Program Management Team (AKPMT) also attended…

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ASCC

SEA-PLM 2024 Main Survey rolls out in Lao PDR, the Philippines, and Viet Nam

ASCC

The 14th SEA-PLM Regional Steering Committee Meeting and related Meetings

AEC

ASEAN Smart City Professional Program

Seoul, ROK - One of the main components of "Capacity Building Project for Data-driven Smart City Planning" is to provide higher educational opportunities for experienced officials and professionals whose expertise are related to smart-city planning. Earlier this year, 9 students from AMS have embarked their academic journet at Seoul National University (SNU) for their Master Degree programme for the next two years. Throughout the programme,…

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AEC

The 1st Project Steering Committee (PSC) meeting of "Critical Minerals Management and Strategy for Sustainable Environment in ASEAN” Project

AEC

[Project] Critical Minerals Management and Strategy for Sustainable Environment in ASEAN

ASCC

[Project] ASEAN-Korea Football Interpersonal Exchange and Leadership Development (FIELD) Programme

Project Title: ASEAN-Korea Football Interpersonal Exchange and Leadership Development (FIELD) Programme Budget: USD 3.8M Proponent: Korea Football Association, Love Sharing Foundation Period: 2022-2025 Project Description The ASEAN-KOREA FIELD(Football Interpersonal Exchange and Leadership Development) Program aims to strengthen the cooperation between ASEAN and ROK through interpersonal exchange and engagement of ASEAN football experts…

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AEC

[Project] Feasibility Study on Establishment of ASEAN-ROK Regional e-CO Exchange Platform

AEC

[Project] Support for the development of an ASEAN Green Map

AEC

[Project] Digital Transformation: Facilitating ASEAN’s Inclusive and Sustainable Digital Economy

Project Title: Digital Transformation: Facilitating ASEAN’s Inclusive and Sustainable Digital Economy Budget: USD 3.9M Proponent: World Economic Forum (WEF) Period: 2023-2025 Project Description This project entitled “Digital Transformation: Facilitating the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)’s Inclusive and Sustainable Digital Economy” is a multi-year work programme of public-private action focused on driving…

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ASCC

[Project] Advancing ASEAN-Korean cooperation in Integrated Municipal Solid Waste Management (IMSWM) for Environmentally Sustainable Cities

ASCC

[Project] ASEAN - Korea Music Festival 2023-2024

AEC

[Project] Capacity Building Project for the Data-driven Smart City Planning

Project Title: Capacity Building Project for the Data-driven Smart City Planning Budget: USD 5.4M Proponent: Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, ROK Period: 2022-2027 Project Description Urban processes and practices are becoming highly responsive to a form of data-driven urbanism, and here big data is the critical mode of production for smart cities. Therefore, it is essential to understand how the emerging data-driven smart city…

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ASCC

[Project] ASEAN-ROK Film Community Programme 2022-2025

AEC

[Project] ASEAN Cyber Shield (ACS) Project

ASCC

[Project] Clean Air for Sustainable ASEAN (CASA)

Project Title: Clean Air for Sustainable ASEAN (CASA) Budget: USD 11M Proponent: Seoul National University (SNU) Period: 2022-2026 Project Description The 4 years project aims to provide comprehensive support for ASEAN Member States (AMS) to mitigate air pollution and its negative impact on health through political, scientificm and technical measures. The project is composed of four primary outcomes. Outcomes 1 is to raise understanding…

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AEC

[Project] Capacity Building on Enhancing Resilience to Forest Fire, and Local Livelihood and Market Linkages

AEC

[Project] Enhancing Digital Economy Participation for ASEAN Women MSMEs

ASCC

[Project] ASEAN Children’s Reading Culture Development Project

Project Title: ASEAN Children’s Reading Culture Development Project Budget: USD 0.41M Proponent: National Library of Children and Young Adult (NLCY), ROK Period: 2021-2024 Project Description 'ASEAN Children’s Reading Culture Development Project' is a 3-year-project that aims to improve the children’s reading cultural environment and to raise children‘s literacy level in ASEAN. Through the Project, (1) a cooperation…

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ASCC

[Project] Monitoring and Developing ASEAN Basic Education: Southeast Asia Primary Learning Metrics (SEA-PLM) Programme

APSC

[Project] ASEAN-IPR TRAINING & CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAMME

AEC

[Project] Development of ASEAN Open Data Dictionary for ASEAN Connectivity

Project Title: Development of ASEAN Open Data Dictionary for ASEAN Connectivity Budget: USD 0.65M Proponent: National Information Society Agency (NIA), ROK Period: 2020-2023 Project Description The proposed project aims to improve quality and efficiency of the public service delivery, support private sector innovation, and establish the foundation for the ASEAN open data network by: (i) suggesting the conceptual development framework…

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APSC

[Project]18th East Asia Forum: Strengthening ASEAN Plus Three Cooperation for Economic and Financial Resilience in the face of emerging challenges

APSC

[Project]Enhance Victim Assistance Programme in the ASEAN Member States

ASCC

[Project Implementation] The 1st Project Steering Committee Meeting for “ASEAN Standards and Certification for Experts in Disaster Management” (ASCEND)

JAKARTA/ONLINE, 3 December 2020 – The first Project Steering Committee (PSC) Meeting for “ASEAN STANDARDS AND CERTIFICATION FOR EXPERTS IN DISASTER MANAGEMENT” (ASCEND) was organized by the ASEAN Coordination Centre for Humanitarian Assistance on Disaster Management (AHA Centre) on 3 December. The ASEAN Standards and Certification for Experts in Disaster Management (ASCEND) is an initiative launched by the ASEAN Member…

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ASCC

[Project Implementation]Kick-off Meeting of the "Increasing Access to Basic Education in CLMV Countries through Flexible Learning Programmes"

ASCC

[Project]Disaster risk management Capacity Building Project for AMS

ASCC

[Project] Increasing Access to Basic Education in CLMV Countries through Flexible Learning Programmes

The “Increasing access to basic education in CLMV countries” project aims to assist the governments of Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Viet Nam in providing out-of-school children (OOSC) with flexible learning strategies and non-formal education (NFE)/alternative education (AE) programmes to help them complete basic education. The project employs the following three strategies to achieve this goal: 1) evidence-gathering; 2) policy-strengthening;…

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ASCC

[Project] Enhancing the detection capacity for COVID-19 in ASEAN countries

AEC

[Project] Capacity Building for Implementing the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) and Quality Assurance (QA) in TVET in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Viet Nam (TEAM Programme Component 3)

ASCC

[Project] ASEAN-ROK Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Mobility Programme (TEAM Programme Component 2)

Project Description As an important element of the education and training system, TVET allows the transformation and improvement of human capital to match industry needs and requirements. With the growing skills mismatch in the labor market brought about by the 4th industrial revolution, the ASEAN-ROK Mobility Programme intends to provide ASEAN Member States with the platforms needed to prepare for the challenges in the labor market and to meet the…

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ASCC

[Project] Enhancing the Competitiveness of ASEAN Human Resources through Responsive TVET curriculum supported by Involvement of Industries and Labor Market (TEAM Programme Component 1)

ASCC

[Project] ASEAN Women's Economic Empowerment through Digital Literacy and e-Business Education

ASCC

[Project] Operationalising the ASEAN Standards and Certification for Experts in Disaster Management (ASCEND) (2020-2023)

The project seeks to create a regionally recognised certification scheme for professions in disaster management in order to ensure and promote higher standards and quality in the management of disasters in the region. It is intended to ensure the availability of competent disaster management professionals in the region with strong capacity to manage disasters to reduce the loss of life, respond effectively, recover more quickly, and decrease disaster…

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ASCC

[Project] Higher Education for ASEAN Talents (HEAT): Scholarship Opportunity for ASEAN Faculty Members in the Republic of Korea

ASCC

[Project Implementation] Model ASEAN-Korea Summit

ASCC

[Project]KONNECT ASEAN – An ASEAN-ROK (Republic of Korea) Arts and Cultural Programme

ASEAN has, since its inception, done much to facilitate people-to-people exchange in the arts sector across Southeast Asia to encourage dialogue and debate. This unique space for artistic discourse that allowed for pluralistic notions of what constituted a regional artistic identity and aesthetic is one of ASEAN’s great legacies and is widely discussed, researched, and acknowledged by a new generation of art historians and curators. In the…

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ASCC

[Project] ASEAN Korea Music Festival (AKMF)

ASCC

[Project] 9th ASEAN-Korea Frontier Forum: ASEAN – ROK Youth Community Initiative

ASCC

[Project] Gender Mainstreaming into Labour and Employment Policies to Promote Decent Work for All

The project was launched to develop and operationalize an ASEAN Guideline on gender mainstreaming into labour and employment policies to promote decent work for all.

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ASCC

[Project] Development of Digital Heritage Contents with UNESCO World Heritage of ASEAN

AEC

[Project] Technical and Vocational Education and Training through ASEAN Mobility (TEAM)

ASCC

[Project] ASEAN-Korea Environmental Cooperation Project (AKECOP)

AKECOP was launched in July 2000 by ASEAN-Korea Environmental Cooperation Unit (AKECU), associated with the Seoul National University (SNU). For the past 20 years, AKECOP has supported the restoration of degraded ecosystem and conservation of biodiversity in ASEAN through research, capacity building, and technology transfer. Under AKECOP, each ASEAN member state has conducted researches on their forests to share aggregate knowledge of vegetation…

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AKCF Briefing for CPR Highlights Achievements and Future Priorities

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2025 ROUND Festival in Malaysia Broadcast Schedule and Exclusive Bonus Stage

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Business Planning Workshop for NTFP Social Enterprises in Da Nang, Viet Nam

AKCMM 2nd MRC Meeting and Study Tour in the Philippines

Conference on Shaping ASEAN’s Critical Mineral Future

New Students Orientation for ASPP Fall 2025 Intake

FLY 2025 Marks the Conclusion of the ‘ASEAN-ROK Film Leaders Incubator’