Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) Agricultural Start-up Specialization Project Group held the "2025 Agricultural Start-up Competency Training Results Sharing Conference" on the 21st to collate and present the outcomes of practical agricultural start-up training. The event was organized as an opportunity for students to present, in their own words, the yearlong training, field practicum, and start-up activities, reaffirming the strength of practice-oriented education.

About 100 people, including faculty, students, and Project Group officials, attended the event, which featured presentations of agricultural start-up club activities, a Business Model (BM) competition, an overall review of outcomes, and an awards ceremony. 

In the club presentations, groups active in horticulture and livestock—'붉은악마', '블루망스', '담백 2.0', and '리프'—shared their yearlong cultivation, practicum, sales, and planning activities, concretely demonstrating the outcomes of student-led education. Practical practicum processes based on real farming sites, sales experiments, and collaboration cases with local farms were introduced, confirming that student-centered experiential programs lead to tangible capacity building.

At the Business Model competition, students attracted attention by proposing creative agricultural and food business ideas based on problems faced by farmers. Presentations included practical BM designs, consumer analyses, and market viability assessments—at a level that could lead to actual start-ups—demonstrating the effectiveness of field-based entrepreneurship education.

The JBNU Agricultural Start-up Specialization Project Group has sustained practice-oriented education aligned with national policy directions by expanding field practicums, providing expert mentoring, implementing farm-linked projects, and fostering start-up ideas through clubs. It is recognized as having established a "virtuous-cycle learning model" that connects education, field experience, and outcomes.

Director Hwang In-ho said, "As students experiment, plan, and execute themselves, education and field practice are naturally connected," adding, "This results-sharing conference was a meaningful occasion to see students' growth with our own eyes."

Meanwhile, the event concluded with gifts to students of strawberry milk made from strawberries grown at a farm run by a Project Group alumnus ("Ttalgi Bapsang," CEO Kang Myung-shin) and a 10-egg pack symbolizing livestock ("Guppeu" · "Ongal-Ongal"), followed by a dinner between faculty and students.