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Ewha Earns Highest Grade for Second Consecutive Year in 2025 University Innovation Support Project Evaluation
Ewha Earns Highest Grade for Second Consecutive Year in 2025 University Innovation Support Project Evaluation Ewha Womans University has once again affirmed its status as a leader in educational innovation by earning the highest rating of S-grade in the educational innovation category of the 2025 University Innovation Support Project Evaluation announced by the Ministry of Education, marking the second consecutive year it has received this top honor, following the 2024 evaluation. In this year’s evaluation, Ewha was recognized for key achievements including: introducing more flexible academic systems to enhance students’ autonomy in choosing their majors; offering Self-designed Module Courses to support student-led learning; establishing major-specific career guidance systems to link academic programs with career and employment opportunities; operating E-Buds, an AI-based intelligent student support system; implementing liberal arts education and a foundational competency certification program to foster future-oriented, interdisciplinary and convergent talent; developing educational innovation courses and encouraging greater faculty participation; and building a communication framework for educational innovation centered on active engagement by members of the university community. Ewha was commended for establishing and advancing a leading model of the autonomous major selection system, which was initiated with the introduction of the Scranton College interdisciplinary major in 2009 and further developed through the implementation of integrated selection for regular admissions by academic division in 2018, thereby laying a strong foundation for cultivating interdisciplinary and convergent talent to meet the needs of future society. As part of efforts to support students’ career exploration and increase flexibility in major selection, Ewha advanced the application period for minors and double majors to the second semester of the first year, enabling students to explore career paths at an earlier stage. It also introduced the Self-designed Module Course System, which allows students to combine short-term courses of their own choosing and receive academic credit as a way to strengthen the foundation for student-led learning. Furthermore, the university systematically provides adjunct faculty-linked major exploration guidance, senior mentoring programs, and other initiatives tailored for students in the autonomous major selection track. The university’s enhanced career and employment support system was also positively recognized. By analyzing career outcome data for each major, it operates a structured career guidance program, while in 2025, it also launched the AI-based intelligent student support system E-Buds to provide personalized career and academic support. In addition, with the goal of cultivating future-oriented, interdisciplinary and convergent talent grounded in strong foundational competencies, the university has systematically designed and implemented initiatives such as developing an integrated liberal arts education framework, offering character education through practical campaigns of sharing, and introducing a foundational competency certification program, while continually strengthening mechanisms for curriculum quality assurance. It also provides major exploration guidance through adjunct faculty and has established measures to expand faculty participation in educational innovation, thereby encouraging more active engagement by members of the Ewha community. Furthermore, to enhance the overall momentum for educational innovation across the institution, the university has built a communication framework through diverse channels for gathering feedback and made efforts to reinforce its performance management structure. President Hyang‑Sook Lee stated, “Ewha Womans University is committed to fostering an educational environment in which students can take the lead in their own growth through flexible, future-oriented academic management that enables world-class higher education. Amid the sweeping tide of advanced technologies, including artificial intelligence, we will continue to pursue educational innovation to nurture creative, convergent talent grounded in inclusive innovation.”
Ewha Starts to Co-develop AI Platform for Cardiotoxicity Evaluation of New Drug Candidates with Fraunhofer IBMT, Germany
Ewha Starts to Co-develop AI Platform for Cardiotoxicity Evaluation of New Drug Candidates with Fraunhofer IBMT, Germany Ewha has been selected for the “2025 Korea-Germany Industry-Academia Joint Research (2+2 Projects),” overseen by the Ministry of Science and ICT, in collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering (IBMT), a world-renowned applied science research institute in Germany. Based on its selection for this large-scale global research project, which is jointly supported by the governments of both nations, Ewha plans to further strengthen scientific and technological cooperation between Korea and Germany. To this end, Jang-Hwan Choi, professor at the Department of Artificial Intelligence at Ewha, and Heiko Zimmermann, director of Fraunhofer IBMT, Germany, have secured a total of KRW 1.87 billion in research funding to jointly develop a next-generation drug cardiotoxicity evaluation platform that combines 3D myocardial organoids and AI over a period of three years starting this October. The contractile dynamics of iPSC-based 3D myocardial organoids are measured with Fraunhofer IBMT’s non-contact optical metrology technology in real time and analyzed with unsupervised AI models from the Medical AI & Computer Vision Lab at Ewha to automatically generate drug dose-response curves. This is expected to enable the high-speed and high-precision prediction of cardiotoxicity risk for new drug candidates at the preclinical stage. To this end, the two organizations signed an MOU in April and established the Ewha–Fraunhofer RegMed AI Hub in Seoul. The Korean Fund for Regenerative Medicine (KFRM) stated that the collaboration will serve as an opportunity to enter the drug development market and establish a global standard platform. The research participants include Ewha Womans University (general management and AI development), Biosolvix Co., Ltd. (organoid production and standardization), Korea University College of Medicine (histopathology and clinical consulting), Dt & CRO (preclinical verification), Fraunhofer IBMT (optical metrology and stem cell platform), and Innovitro GmbH (3D culture process). In particular, Biosolvix will promote the commercialization of research outcomes while carrying out projects of the KFRM. This collaboration was enabled through researcher exchange support projects by the KFRM, including the hosting of an international workshop in 2026, plans for the AI-Organoid Cardiotoxicity Challenge in 2027, completion of preclinical validation, and technology transfer for domestic and foreign pharmaceutical companies and CROs by 2028. Through such efforts, Korea and Germany are expected to strengthen cooperation in the fields of advanced regenerative medicine and AI-digital healthcare convergence, and lead global innovation in cardiotoxicity evaluation.
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