- Hyundai Motor Group (the Group) companions with SOAS to foster a basic understanding of the continent and selling sustainable improvement in Africa
- With the institution of the ‘Hyundai Motor Group Scholarship,’ each events have broadened their collaborative efforts to nurture future generations in Africa
- This yr, 25 grasp’s and doctoral college students from Africa will obtain a scholarship to review at SOAS because of a £1.5M donation from Group companions
- Scholarship recipients to take part in occasions and seminars hosted by the Group, specializing in sustainable improvement in Africa and international collaborations
- The Group’s new Junior Internship Program to supply international enterprise expertise to SOAS college students from Africa to work in Seoul
Hyundai Motor Group (the Group) has signed a scholarship settlement to nurture expertise from Africa at SOAS College of London, a college that’s dwelling to main worldwide consultants engaged in analysis and instructing to create significant change and empower college students to search out options to international challenges.
A signing ceremony for the ‘Hyundai Motor Group Scholarship’ happened on the SOAS Senate Chamber on February 10. Group attendees included Heung-Soo Kim, Government Vice President and Head of the International Technique Workplace (GSO), Hyundai Motor Group; Ashley Andrew, President of Hyundai Motor and Genesis UK; and Simon Hetherington, Vice President of Kia UK Ltd.
Attendees from SOAS included Professor Adam Habib, Vice-Chancellor; Professor Elisa Van Waeyenberge, Dean of the School of Growth, Economics and Finance; Professor Christopher Cramer; Professor Antonio Andreoni and different college officers.
The Group is actively pursuing collaboration with African nations to realize mutual development, aligning with its imaginative and prescient of ‘Collectively for a Higher Future.’ The Group has taken vital steps to leverage its capabilities to ascertain modern collaboration fashions with Africa.
As a primary step, in partnership with SOAS, the Group has established the Growth Management Dialogue (DLD) Institute, a discussion board for discussions amongst leaders within the improvement group, in addition to the Centre for Sustainable Structural Transformation (CSST), a analysis middle targeted on structural transformation within the context of the local weather disaster.
These initiatives goal to reinforce the Group’s understanding of the African market and develop sustainable improvement methods. Moreover, the Group is increasing its collaboration past analysis by establishing a scholarship program at SOAS to nurture African expertise.
Beginning within the first half of 2025, the Hyundai Motor Group Scholarship will likely be provided yearly to 5 grasp’s and doctoral college students coming to SOAS from Africa. Students will obtain transformational assist in direction of their tuition and residing bills. The Group will invite scholarship recipients to take part in numerous networking occasions and seminars hosted by the Group after finishing their research. This community and collaboration mannequin between the Group and the students is designed to assist this subsequent era of changemakers past their research as they apply their experience to careers throughout the African continent.
As well as, the Group is ready to launch the Junior Internship Program for undergraduate and grasp’s college students from Africa at SOAS. By means of this program, the Group goals to introduce its imaginative and prescient for the way forward for Africa and supply taking part interns with beneficial international enterprise expertise.
“Hyundai Motor Group has established the DLD and CSST in collaboration with SOAS to realize a basic understanding of Africa and is in search of a collaboration mannequin for a fascinating future on the continent,” mentioned Heung-Soo Kim, Government Vice President and head of the International Technique Workplace (GSO) at Hyundai Motor Group. “As a part of our dedication to fostering the subsequent era of leaders who will drive sustainable improvement in Africa, Hyundai Motor Group is establishing a scholarship program to nurture the longer term generations of the continent.”
Professor Adam Habib, Vice-Chancellor of SOAS, mentioned: “Widening the chance for college students within the international south to entry a SOAS schooling, each in London and with our companions within the majoritarian world, is central to our mission. Scholarships in each instances have a transformational influence, for the person and for the society round them. Our partnership with the Hyundai Motor Group helps construct capability for the subsequent era of leaders to develop the talents and imaginative and prescient to create sustainable and constructive change. We’re grateful to the Group for his or her ongoing assist of SOAS and sit up for working collectively to nurture expertise from Africa.”
The Group goals to domesticate consultants for sustainable improvement in Africa throughout this transformative interval within the international financial system and can proceed to ascertain long-term collaboration fashions for the subsequent era of Africa.
