SGAVE project team visited Zhejiang University of Science and Technology for discussion on the applied talent training mode of smart manufacturing undergraduate programs
On 28th April, 2021, the SGAVE project team of the Center of Competence for Sino-German Vocational Education (CoC) of Tongji University visited Zhejiang University of Science and Technology and discussed the applied talent training mode of smart manufacturing undergraduate programs in a seminar.
Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, located in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, is an application-oriented undergraduate university with a history of more than 30 years of cooperation with Germany. It has successively implemented Sino-German government cooperation projects, and Zhejiang Province and Lower Saxony cooperation projects. It is a pilot institution of Sino-German cooperation in the training of high-level application-oriented talents approved by the Ministry of Education and the construction unit of “Sino-German Forum: the training of high-level application-oriented talents”. It has rich experience in the cultivation of application-oriented undergraduate talents through Sino-foreign cooperation.
Guided by Mr. Zhang Huahui, Deputy Director of International Office and Office for Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Affairs, and Mr. Chen Cheng, Project Manager of German-speaking Countries, the SGAVE project team first visited the Sino-German Cooperation Museum, learning about its history of Sino-German cooperation, and then visited the picturesque campus. Finally, the two sides held a seminar.
Zhang Huahui introduced the university and its “application-oriented” and “international” characteristics. Ms. Xu Zhiji, Director of CoC, and Mr. Klaus Juergen brix, Deputy Director of CoC, introduced the background and history of the SGAVE project. The two sides then continued to discuss about the applied talent training mode of smart manufacturing undergraduate programs from several aspects, including talent training qualification matrix, the specific implementation of the German “dual system”, the Sino-German cooperation mode and the specific talent training scheme, maintaining similar perspectives on such matters.
Both Xu Zhiji and Zhang Huahui showed their willingness for keeping close and long-time contact between the two sides, maintaining frequent communication about the development and implementation of the training mode, and aiming to promote the further development of Chinese vocational education and the Sino-German vocational education cooperation.