Recently, the State Administration of Studying Abroad** issued the "Notice on Determining the Funding Projects for International Cooperation and Training of Innovative Talents in 2024 (hereinafter referred to as Innovative Projects)".Yangtze UniversityProfessor Wu Nan of the School of Earth Sciences presided over the application of the "International Cooperation and Training Project for Unconventional Oil and Gas Geology and Engineering Innovative Talents" was successfully approved. This is the second successful approval of this type of project after the first approval of the project last year. So far, Yangtze University has independently approved 2 such projects and 1 jointly approved, ranking among the highest in terms of the number of approved projects and the amount of fundingProvincial universities are in the forefront
According to the project arrangement, Yangtze UniversityEach year, 5 teachers and students will be selected (3 doctoral students, 1 visiting scholar and 1 postdoctoral fellow).He went to the University of Tulsa in the United States, the University of Calgary in Canada, and the University of Tasmania in Australia to carry out joint training or visiting studies.
The first round of implementation of the project will last for three years (2024-2026), and the cumulative amount of funding from the National Administration for Studying Abroad** will beAbout 4 million yuan。Relying on three innovative projects, Yangtze University can send about 45 teachers and students to study and visit high-level universities abroad during the first implementation period, with a cumulative funding amount of about 12 million yuan.
Since 2012, the Yangtze River University has been approved by the Ministry of Education to carry out Sino-foreign cooperative education programs, and has successively cooperated with the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Korea, Japan, Russia, Australia, the Czech Republic and other countriesMore than 100 institutions have established substantive cooperative relationsExchanges and cooperation such as student exchanges, scholar visits and joint scientific research are carried out all year round. As of May 2021, it has trained more than 4,000 students of various types of Chinese-foreign cooperatively-run schools, ranking among the best schools of its kind in the country.
The school is also held in partnership with Shannon University of Technology, IrelandUndergraduate education program in civil engineering, in collaboration with the University of Hradec-Králové, Czech RepublicJoint Laboratory of ToxicologyIt is jointly established with Seoul National University in South Korea and the University of Calgary in CanadaChina-Korea-Canada Center for Utilization of Garden Plant Resources and Germplasm Innovation, co-built with the University of Tasmania, AustraliaAustralia-China Centre for Plant Stress Biology Researchand other international joint scientific research platforms, and has been selected as the implementation unit of the international cooperation and training project for innovative talents of the National Committee for Studying in the Foundation, which continues to demonstrate the demeanor and responsibility of Chinese universities in the international community.
Among them, the school openedBachelor's degree in civil engineering in Chinese-foreign cooperative educationIn 2014, it began to recruit students from all over the country, and passed the evaluation of the Ministry of Education in December 2017, and is committed to building an international and innovative teaching system with interdisciplinary integration, distinctive professional characteristics, advanced talent training system, and excellent demonstration effect.
The training program of this profession consists of:Jointly developed by Yangtze University and Shannon University of TechnologyRelying on the high-quality educational resources of the two universities, the basic goal is to cultivate high-level interdisciplinary talents with a solid foundation in civil engineering, excellent innovation ability and cooperation spirit, multilingual advantages and international vision.
Professionally implementedEnrollment within the national plan will be uniformly enrolled online by the provincial recruitment office。Students who complete four years of study in China and meet the graduation requirements can obtain a bachelor's degree certificate of general higher education from Yangtze University, and those who meet the conditions for degree awarding will receive a bachelor's degree certificateStudents who choose to complete their studies at Shannon University of Technology in Ireland in the fourth year of study and meet the requirements for awarding their degrees will receive a bachelor's degree certificate from Shannon University of Technology in addition to the diploma and degree of Yangtze University, which can be recognized by the Service Center for Scholarly Study of the Ministry of Education.
The successful approval of the "International Cooperation and Training Project for Innovative Talents" has built a new platform for the teachers and students of Yangtze University to cultivate high-level international talents, and laid a good foundation for promoting long-term, stable and sustainable scientific research cooperation and high-level talent training between the university and foreign high-level universities. In the future, the school will conscientiously organize the implementation of the approved projects, further expand the training channels of innovative, scarce and compound international talents, and promote the construction and high-quality development of the school.
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Material of this article**: Official website of Yangtze University, Undergraduate Admissions Office of Yangtze University.