WUST News    On June 25, a delegation from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Spain, paid an official visit to Wuhan University of Science and Technology (WUST). The delegation was composed of Miguel Ángel Sastre Castillo, Vice-Rector for Quality Affairs, María Concepción García Gómez, Vice-Rector for Employment and Entrepreneurship, and Juan Carlos Izquierdo Villaverde, Director of the International Relations Office. The two sides held a cooperation symposium at the Qingshan Campus. Ni Hongwei, Secretary of the CPC WUST Committee, and Ma Teng, Vice President of WUST, attended the meeting.

On behalf of the university, Ni Hongwei extended a warm welcome to the UCM delegation. He briefed the guests on the achievements of WUST’s Chinese-foreign cooperative education in recent years, and expressed the expectation that the two universities would continue to consolidate the foundation of cooperation and expand multi-level, wide-ranging collaboration in talent cultivation. Miguel Ángel Sastre Castillo and María Concepción García Gómez delivered speeches respectively, speaking highly of the operational outcomes of the WUST-Madrid Complutense Institute (WMCI) since its joint establishment. They also shared UCM’s experience and practices in talent training, employment and entrepreneurship, and quality management and control.

At the symposium, the two sides conducted in-depth exchanges on the current operation of WMCI. They systematically sorted out key priorities and difficulties in the cooperative education program, discussed targeted optimization and improvement measures in detail, and fully exchanged views on faculty exchange, joint curriculum development, collaborative research and student mobility, reaching consensus on multiple cooperation items.

As a top-ranked public university in Spain, UCM jointly established WMCI with WUST. Approved by the Ministry of Education of China in 2025, the college enrolled its first cohort of undergraduate students in the same year, and received further MOE approval in 2026 to upgrade its educational level and expand enrollment scale. This visit and symposium further clarified the implementation paths for improving the quality and efficiency of the bilateral cooperative education, and defined the direction for advancing the program’s operation. Going forward, WUST will continue to improve the integrated bachelor-master international talent training system, and steadily enhance the quality of Chinese-foreign cooperative education and its international influence.

Heads of relevant functional departments and schools of WUST attended the symposium. (Office of International Relations)