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Vice President Wu Jiang Visits UK and Ireland
Published：13/04/2016
Vice President Prof. Wu Jiang and the Tongji University delegation visited UK and Ireland from April 1st to 8th, his mission included visits to University College London, Keele University, UCFB College of Football Business, Trinity College Dublin and Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland(RIAI) to extend extensive and profound discussions with relevant people and signed cooperative agreements. Vice President Prof. Wu made relevant academic reports. The delegation included Dr. Wang Xin, Vice Dean of UNEP- Tongji Institute of Environment for Sustainable Development (IESD), representatives from the School of Medicine and International Exchange and Cooperation Office.
During his visit in the UK, Prof. Wu Jiang met with Prof. Katharine Carruthers, Vice President of University College London and Provost of College of Education, and Prof. Alan Penn, Dean of the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment to discuss discipline development, teacher-student exchanges and Sino-British jointly applied research funds and projects, expecting further cooperations with the two institutes of higher education.
In the Keele University, Prof. Wu Jiang talked with Keele President Prof. Trevor McMillan to deepen cooperations on medical stem cells, environmental research, education and sustainable development, and signed on behalf of their own university a Memorandum of Understanding. They promised that they would work hand in hand to make cooperations on student exchanges, research works, sustainable development and green campus.
Prof. Wu Jiang met with Philip Wilson, CEO of UK College of Football Business, and signed a Memorandum of Cooperation to educate and cultivate high-end talents in business modes and administrative management in China’s football and sport industry by integrating top football facility and trainer sources in China, the Uk and other countries in the Europe.
When in Ireland, Prof. Wu Jiang held talks with Patrick Prendergast, Provost of the Trinity College Dublin. The latter had a deep understanding of the cooperation mode based on IESD between Tongji University and UNEP and wanted to learn from the IESD mode and function to integrate sustainable development into higher education. Prof. Wu Jiang also visited the RIAI and enjoyed winning projects of RIRA. The RIRA, in turn, expected extensive and profound exchanges and cooperations with architects and planners in Shanghai.
During his visits, Prof. Wu Jiang made an academic report on the topic of Striving for the Excellent Global City: Shanghai 2040 separately in the Keele University and Trinity College Dublin to introduce city planning of Shanghai in 2040 and share building experience.
