JBNU is actively expanding an 'infrastructure-sharing campus' model that opens the university's educational, cultural, and research infrastructure to local university students and residents through the Glocal University 30 Project. The strategy aims to broaden the foundation for mutual growth between the university and the region by sharing the campus with the local community and strengthening joint education systems.

The JBNU Glocal University Promotion Team is implementing a range of policies to increase connectivity between the university and the local community, focusing on 'full campus opening' and 'sharing educational content and establishing joint education systems.' Through measures such as the operation of the digital ID-based J-Card, opening campus facilities, and expanding joint lectures and educational content sharing among universities in the Jeonbuk region, it is creating an environment that makes university infrastructure more accessible to local students and residents.

In particular, the digital ID-based J-Card system is cited as a flagship outcome of the campus opening policy. The J-Card is an integrated mobile-based service that supports access to university resources—such as library entry, material use, and program registration—and has greatly improved user convenience by introducing remote enrollment and an automatic approval system. As of February 2026, cumulative issuances reached 12,236, substantially expanding local students' and residents' access to and use of university infrastructure.

The results of opening campus facilities are also clear. JBNU has opened major facilities to the local community, including libraries, cafeterias, the Foreign Language Institute, the Continuing Education Center, and the Center for University wide Research Facilities. In 2025, facility users totaled 147,806, a significant increase year-on-year. In particular, Central Library use more than doubled year-on-year, establishing it as the region's leading learning and cultural space.

Academic and cultural programs centered on the Central Library's 'Jungdo Lounge' are also notable. These include exhibitions of local authors in collaboration with the Jeonbuk Cultural Tourism Foundation, the exhibition 'Turning Pages, Finding Myself: Records of Our Writings and Books,' lectures on academic paper writing using AI, intensive thesis-writing workshops and one-on-one coaching programs, and performances and screenings of classical music, opera, and theater. As a result, annual Central Library users reached 79,512 in 2025, about a 140% increase year-on-year.

In education, the establishment of a joint education system based on cooperation among universities in the Jeonbuk region is gaining momentum. JBNU, together with 17 universities in the Jeonbuk region, has established a system for the joint use of educational content and is expanding real-time joint lectures and hybrid classes. From 2024 to 2025, it achieved a cumulative 386 instances of educational content sharing, concretizing a regional higher education cooperation model.

At the same time, the operation of Jeonbuk Saemangeum Tech Platform University and linkage with the JBNU RISE Project Group are strengthening mutual cooperation among universities. Focusing on regional strategic industries such as future mobility, new energy industries, agro-life and bio, and AI and software, the universities are expanding joint education and industry–university collaboration programs. They are also running regionally linked projects such as practical AI and software training, company visits, job fairs for international students, and culture and tourism–linked initiatives.

President Yang O-bong said, 'Through the Glocal University project, we are sharing the university's outstanding educational, cultural, and research resources with the local community and creating an innovative higher education model that grows with regional universities. We will continue to expand tangible results that local residents and students can experience.'