Deputy Director of the International Exchange and Cooperation Department of the Ministry of Education Inspected the SGAVE Program and the Sino-German Dual System Vocational Education

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On April 15, 2021, Professor Chen Yi, Director of the International Exchange and Cooperation Office of Tongji University, accompanied Fang Jun, Deputy Director of the International Cooperation and Exchange Department of the Ministry of Education (MoE), Super Inspector, and Yin Wen, director of European Division, to visit Bosch Suzhou smart manufacturing factory. The entourage included Ms. Peng Xianjie, Deputy Secretary General of Shanghai Association for Artificial Intelligence / Director of Tongji University Talent Center, Ms. Xu Zhiji, Director of the Center of Competence (CoC) at Tongji University, and Mr. Klaus Juergen Werner brix, Deputy Director of CoC, President Li Chunming of Changchun Automobile Industry Institute, Dean Tian Fengshe of Shaanxi Polytechnic Institute, etc.

Li Xiufeng, General Manager of Bosch Automotive Service Technology Co., Ltd., introduced the training mechanism and characteristics of Bosch dual apprenticeship program to Fang Jun, and organized a visit to Bosch Suzhou training center and smart manufaturing factory. Deputy Director Fang Jun approved of Bosch’s dual system training mechanism and the technical level of smart manufacturing.

After the visit, Fang Jun presided over a meeting which was focused on how to further promote the cooperation between SGAVE and Bosch, how to build SGAVE-Bosch brand and practically develop the cooperation under the background of the memorandum of understanding (MoU) which was signed by the MoE and Robert Bosch GmbH in Germany aiming to continuously enhance the integration of industry and education, and to further improve vocational training in the dual system and to develop applied sciences in China.

The participants had an extensive and in-depth discussion on the direction, process, existing problems and difficulties of the current project, and put forward a lot of constructive opinions and suggestions. The meeting marked the official beginning of the horizontal transplantation of SGAVE project from a traditional automotive discipline to smart manufacturing one. The participants said that they would actively promote the smooth cooperation between the two sides in accordance with the instructions of Deputy Director Fang Jun, cultivate high-quality and high skilled talents in the field of smart manufacturing, and help the reform and development of China’s vocational education.