On the morning of September 21, Yang Yun, Secretary of the University CPC Committee, met with Prof. Gilian Gerke, former Vice President of Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences, Germany, and Prof. Guo Yakun from the University of Bradford. Representatives from the School of International Education and the International Exchange Office attended the meeting.
Yang Yun welcomed Prof. Gerke and spoke highly of her key role as a long-term partner of the university in promoting China-Germany student exchanges and research cooperation. He noted that the China-Europe Energy and Environment Management Seminar (CEEMS) has been successfully held for four sessions, producing positive results in academic exchange and mutual cultural learning. He hoped the two sides would further expand faculty and student exchanges and promote high-quality cooperation between the two universities.
Yang Yun also thanked Prof. Guo for his support for QUT’s discipline development and joint training programs with the University of Bradford. He said cooperation between the two universities has continued to deepen, and expressed hope that the two sides would strengthen practical cooperation in areas such as low-carbon buildings and renewable energy, further promote faculty and student exchanges, and achieve more substantive outcomes.
Prof. Gerke and Prof. Guo said that cooperation with QUT is not only a mutually beneficial academic exchange, but also a strategic choice in the universities’ international cooperation. With a solid foundation for collaboration, the two sides will continue to promote deeper and higher-level cooperation.