On the morning of October 30th , the opening ceremony and main forum of the first Jiangsu International Exchange Week on the Cooperation and Integration of Industry, Education, Research and Application, hosted by the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education and organized by NanjingTech, were held at the Yangtze River International Conference Center. This exchange week is co-organized by 10 universities in Jiangsu. Vice Governor Zhao Yan attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech.
With the theme of “International Cooperation and Integration of Industry, Education, Research and Application for a Shared Future”, this exchange week brings together more than 300 presidents, academicians and representatives of leading enterprises from more than 100 higher educational institutions and research institutes in Russia, Britain, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Canada, South Korea, Pakistan, Singapore, Egypt, South Africa as well as other countries and regions. They focused on 9 key areas of economic and social development so as to explore new opportunities and measures for cross-border collaboration to stimulate innovation capability, industrial power and ecological vitality in the context of globalization.
President Jiang Juncheng introduced the characteristic path of NanjingTech working together with more than 120 high-level overseas partners to implement industry-education-research collaborative innovation. He said that NanjingTech will continue to deepen international industry-education-research-application cooperation based on multiple international joint research platforms between China and Russia, China and Germany, China and Spain, China and South Africa, different Sino-Foreign cooperative education projects as well as scientific and technological achievement incubators. He also looks forward to this exchange week building a solid bond and a high-speed channel for academia and industry at home and abroad. Shan Jianhua, an alumnus of NanjingTech, Vice President of BASF and General Manager of BASF-YPC Co., Ltd., delivered an opening address as an enterprise representative, sharing the important role of NanjingTech in solving technical problems of enterprises.
The opening ceremony also held the signing ceremony of international industry-education-research-application cooperation agreements, the inauguration ceremony of international industry-education-research-application cooperation platforms, and the appointment ceremony of Sino-Foreign joint training doctoral supervisors. Vice President Ling Xiang and the representative from University of Johannesburg pressed the “start button” for the China-South Africa Joint High-Tech incubator. Vice President Dai Zhihui presented the letter of appointment for the foreign supervisor. The subsequent main forum focused on the theme of international industry-education-research-application cooperation, with plenary speeches delivered by Chinese and foreign academicians as well as two dialogues. Among the dialogue guests, Gloria Cuenca, Vice-Rector of University of Zaragoza, shared the innovative cooperation practices with NanjingTech. Lloyd Townley, a distinguished professor of NanjingTech, made an exchange report as one of the two representative cases of Jiangsu universities` commercialization of scientific research achievements in the main forum.
