– Do our best to support the growth of young businesses, including expanding support targets nationwide and providing commercialization funds.
“Supporting young businesses in the environmental field is a social responsibility of public institutions.”
The Korea Environment Corporation (Chairman Byeong-ok Ahn) under the Ministry of Environment held the ‘Environmental Youth Entrepreneurship Innovation Studio Meeting and Networking Day’ at Shared Space POEL (Mapo, Seoul) on the 22nd.
About 50 people attended this meeting, including representatives of 14 young companies selected as this year’s 5th youth startup support companies in the environmental field and mentor employees of the Corporation.
The youth entrepreneurship support project in the environmental field is a project that started in 2020 to foster future young leaders and support ESG for small and medium-sized businesses. From 2022, a joint fund with NH Nonghyup Bank will be created to support growth funds, and the Incheon Metropolitan City Social Economy Support Center will manage the project. It is operated as a three-party collaboration system.
In particular, the Corporation operates a group of environmental expert mentors with accumulated professional knowledge and know-how in the environmental field, providing customized mentoring for each company to companies supporting young start-ups.
Since last year, the support target has been expanded from Incheon City to the entire country, and commercialization funds have been provided to excellent young start-ups in local areas.
At the event, the business status of each company was shared, ways to expand performance were discussed, and the experiences and best mentoring cases of youth representatives from senior top companies, Globe (’23) and Upmost (’21), were shared, and junior companies A time was provided to encourage.
After the meeting, legal consulting from the Corporation’s Legal Support Department and all members participated, and a networking time was provided to share experiences between senior and junior companies and obtain new ideas.
Kwang-myeong Cha, management planning director of Korea Environment Corporation, said at the meeting that day, “The corporation will do its best to support the growth of young companies in the environmental field in connection with the agency’s expertise.”
Economy Queen Reporter Ryu Jeong-hyeon | Photo: Korea Environment Corporation
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