From June 26th to 27th, the Yangtze River Delta Higher Education Alliance was held at USST. Presidents of the alliance signed the new round of framework agreement and proposed the Shanghai Initiative of Yangtze River Delta Higher Education Alliance.
Feature the Higher Engineering Education
Yangtze River Delta Higher Engineering Education Alliance was initiated on Sep 15th of 2015, and incorporated 5 membership universities including Nanjing Tech University, Zhejiang University of Technology, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Jiangsu University, Anhui University of Technology. On June 26th, as the newest member, Anhui University of Science and Technology injects new vitality to the cultivation of outstanding engineering talents of the alliance.
In recent years, the members of the alliance fully leverage their distinctive advantages of close intersection, strong innovation, and multiple transformations, with higher engineering education as the focus, to continuously deliver high-quality engineering graduates to the Yangtze River Delta and even the whole country, and further strengthen the important sustaining role of science and engineering universities in socio-economic development. USST President Ding Xiaodong addressed a speech at the work conference: The Yangtze River Delta Higher Engineering Education Alliance will deeply implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, actively responds to the strategy of revitalizing the country through science and education, strengthening the country through talents, innovation-driven development, and the national strategy of regional integration in the Yangtze River Delta. Through the integration of science and education, industry and education, the high-quality engineering talent training system will be continuously improved for comprehensive development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor, and strive to form a batch of engineering education concepts with exemplary and leading roles Achievements in teaching and research, as well as iconic achievements in engineering education, contributing to the future development of engineering education in China through the Yangtze River Delta experience.
Deepen the collaboration through communication in many areas
Every summer, the alliance universities jointly carry out tour activities, allowing students not only to participate in the international sharing project of "combining competitions and courses", but also achieve mutual credits recognition; the alliance has established nearly 300 graduate internship and practice bases in the Yangtze River Delta region, providing internship and practice opportunities for over 6000 professional degree graduate students annually; the "New Era China Talk" Invitational Tournament for University Lecturers in the Yangtze River Delta Region hosted by the alliance allows students to understand the responsibility and responsibility of youth in the process of professional learning and exchange; The continuous joint examination of five universities in Advanced Mathematics has covered more than 17000 students, and "promoting teaching through examination" has improved the undergraduate teaching quality of the alliance universities; In 2019, the Yangtze River Delta Higher Engineering Education University Science and Technology Park Alliance was established. Through annual alliance college student entrepreneurship training camps and technological achievement transformation platform, the alliance achieved deep integration of school enterprise cooperation resources and strengthened the construction of a collaborative training system for engineering innovation talents.
Since the establishment of the alliance for 8 years, various universities have conducted in-depth cooperation and exchanges in talent cultivation, innovation and entrepreneurship, teaching staff, cultural inheritance, international collaboration, and so on, continuously promoting resources sharing and complementary advantages among universities in the region, and creating a demonstration highland for higher engineering education.
Build the innovative alliance focused on biomedical industry
Nowadays, the six universities jointly launch the "Shanghai Initiative", which is not only the continuation and deepening of cooperation and exchange among alliance universities, but also a vivid practice of actively serving the high-quality development strategy of the Yangtze River Delta integration. Alliance colleges and universities with achievements in different science and engineering fields meet major needs, and emphasize concentrated development and characteristic development. Representatives of alliance universities unanimously believe that the "Shanghai Initiative" should be seen as a new opportunity to target the biopharmaceutical industry in the Yangtze River Delta. With a systematic thinking, reform methods, and innovative awareness, they should take root in China and work together to promote the deep integration of talent chain, innovation chain, and industrial chain among alliance universities, as well as between alliance universities and the Yangtze River Delta region, and steadily promote the reform and innovation of engineering education.