Volkswagen Group Woori Foundation invites students to participate in the 2024 SEA:ME Hackathon

The Volkswagen Group's Woori Foundation is looking for students to participate in the 2024 SEA:ME Hackathon, the first official event of its kind.

The 2024 SEA:ME Hackathon is sponsored by the Volkswagen Group Woori Foundation, organised by the Convergence and Open Sharing System (COSS) Future Automotive Consortium of the Ministry of Education, and participated by the Intelligent Robot Consortium.

SEA:ME (Software Engineering in Automotive and Mobility Ecosystems) is a university-level training programme for automotive software talent that Volkswagen Group Korea has been running with Kookmin University since 2022. The aim is to send Korean students to 42 Wolfsburg, a non-profit coding school in Germany, and develop them into automotive software experts with practical skills through a 12-month curriculum.

In addition, Volkswagen Group Korea and Kookmin University have designed and operated SEA:ME@Korea, which adapts the curriculum to the Korean education system in order to expand the number of students who can benefit from the SEA:ME programme. As part of this, the SEA:ME@Korea programme was launched last summer, and 21 students from participating universities in the COSS programme held the '2023 SEA:ME Summer Hackathon'.

The Volkswagen Group Woori Foundation has established the hackathon as a core programme of SEA:ME@Korea and is looking for students to participate in the 2024 SEA:ME Hackathon in July. To participate, teams of four to five undergraduate and graduate students from eight universities working on COSS projects must apply through their respective COSS project groups by Friday, 31 May. A total of 14 teams and 70 participants will be selected and notified individually in early June. For more information about the competition, please visit the website of the respective organisation or the Volkswagen Group Woori Foundation's Instagram account.

"SEA:ME is a core programme of the Volkswagen Group Woori Foundation's education initiative 'We: Run', through which we have seen Korean students develop into outstanding automotive software talent and work in the real world," said Dr. Teil Scheer, Chairman of the Board of the Volkswagen Group Woori Foundation. "By expanding the SEA:ME@Korea programme around the SEA:ME Hackathon, we will give even more students the opportunity to grow and fulfil their potential as automotive software professionals."

"The SEA:ME programme, which is fully supported by the Volkswagen Group's Woori Foundation, has established itself as a key programme for training outstanding students to lead the development of software-driven vehicles (SDVs). The COSS Future Vehicle Consortium aims to further systematise and develop the programme so that it can be offered as a regular course, and to establish a collaborative system so that it can be expanded to other universities."

Meanwhile, Volkswagen Group Korea, which sent four Korean students to Germany in 2022 and 10 in 2023 as part of SEA:ME@Germany, selected the third batch of students in February this year. The Volkswagen Group Woori Foundation will select 10 COSS Future Car Consortium university students each year for the next two years until 2026 and support their education at 42 Wolfsburg. In addition, the company will continue to expand SEA:ME@Korea by reorganising the SEA:ME curriculum into various formats suitable for the Korean university system, such as hackathons and clubs.

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