WUST News   A delegation led by Thomas Schmidt, Deputy Governor and Minister of Regional Development of Saxony, Germany, visited WUST to review the achievements of the bilateral cooperation and explore new cooperation opportunities on July 14.

      Ni Hongwei, President of WUST, welcomed the delegation and introduced the basic situation of WUST, the achievements of international exchanges and cooperation between Chinese and German universities, the construction of advantageous and characteristic disciplines, and the deepening of innovative cooperation. President Ni hopes that with the help of theForeign Affairs Office of Hubei Provincial People’s Government, the two universities will deepen the cooperation in cultural exchanges, talent training, scientific research and other aspects in the future, so as to continuously promote the opening up of high-level education and enhancing their new advantages in international cooperation and competition.

      Thomas Schmidt highly praised the cooperation achievements between Saxony and WUST in the past two decades. He indicated that the delegation gathered political, economic, scientific and technological elites, hoping to carry out closer cooperation with WUST based on Saxony's advantages in microelectronics, automobile manufacturing and other fields. "We look forward to strengthening openness and cooperation in the transformation and application of scientific and technological achievements!" Michael Mertig, director of Kurt Schwabe Institute for Measurement and Sensor Technology introduced the practical achievements of its sensors in fields such as agriculture, environmental protection, and medicine, and expressed the desire to strengthen cooperation in scientific research and development, continuously accelerating the promotion and application of scientific and technological achievements.

        WUST has cooperated with Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg for 20 years since 2003. After the Governor of Saxony and the Minister of Education of Saxony have successively visited WUSTIn 2007 and 2008, the two universities officially signed a cooperation agreement. In 2018, the two universities signed a cooperation agreement on jointly building an international laboratory, which was certified as the Hubei Province Advanced Refractory Materials Innovation and Introduction Base.

       Since the beginning of the cooperation, more than 20 backbone teachers and more than 40 master and doctoral students have been jointly trained, and have been approved by the National Scholarship Council for the International Cooperation and Training Program for Innovative Talents. In the past five years, the two universities have jointly undertaken more than 20 international collaborative research projects in the field of materials and metallurgy, published over 150 papers, jointly formulated one ISO international standard, authorized two international invention patents, and jointly held 15 international academic conferences.

(Photographer: Li Fang)