BACKGROUND AND RATIONALES

Aligning with the Royal University of Phnom Penh’s vision “To become Cambodia’s flagship university specialized in teaching, research and community services” and its mission which is to build competency in knowledge, skills, values and attitudes for students in development and education programs along with equipping them with entrepreneurship skills, innovation skills, cross-cultural competence and employability skills, the Royal University of Phnom Penh has worked very closely with all its development partners including higher education institutions, organizations, industries, and private companies in order to establish the University-Industry Cooperation Center (UICC) to foster the students’ above competencies.

Received funding in 2016 from the Erasmus + project called “Hub4Growth” from the European Union, the Royal University of Phnom Penh has taken an opportunity to further develop and initiate the industrial linkage services for our students. Furthermore, in 2019 the Royal University of Phnom Penh received another grant from the World Bank called “Higher Education Improvement Project-HEIP” to pursue its mission in order to provide even more effective services to students and effectively recruit even more potential industry partners.

In order to further contribute and leverage the university production of the human resources to fit even more to the needs of the Cambodian labor market of small, medium and large industry in the future, along with the unstoppable advancement of science and technology which encourages joint research between the university and industry and the enhancement of the young entrepreneurship of the students in order to significantly contribute to the micro and macro-economy, the University-Industry Cooperation Center will plays a key role to link students to every industrial development sector so that the today and future industry market could be well comprehended.