The idea of the project "Development of higher education institutions in the field of ICT in Mongolia" with the help of Korea, one of the leading country in ICT area, first appeared in 2015 at the level of Mongolian and Korean leaders. The School of ICT, MUST drafted the project concept paper and submitted it to the Government of the Republic of Korea through the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA). In accordance with this, KOICA organized several preliminary study teams at the school from 2016 to 2018, and as a result, in January 2019 Country director of KOICA and State secretaries of  the Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science of Mongolia and the Ministry of Finance of Mongolia have signed the Record of Discussions to implement "The capacity building project for SICT at MUST”  for 4 years with a grant from the Korean government.

The concept of the project formulated as “The capacity building for SICT leads to ICT industry development and its development will speed up the development of other sectors, thus laying the foundation for the sustainable development of Mongolia” based on Mongolia's ICT and Education sector development policy, Mongolia-Korea cooperation development policy, and the Master plan of the MUST for research-oriented university development

 Project outline

“The SICT capacity building project” will improve the capacity of the school in 4 main directions  

Project content - directions

The human, technical, and technological capabilities that will be created as a result of the project will be "the core of cooperation and attracting talents of any organization that is doing research and academic work in the field of ICT".

Korea's Sangmyung University (https://www.smu.ac.kr) was selected as the main implementing organization of the project, and professor Paek SeonUck of the Department of Computer Science working as the project leader/coordinator.

Prof. A.Erdenebaatar,
Project coordinator from SICT