Mar. 28, 2023 | International Office

On the morning of March 27, delegation ofBlekinge Institute of Technology (BTH), Sweden, led by Deputy Vice-Chancellor Andreas Larsson, visited SSPU. The delegation included BTH International Director Mats Walter, Deputy International DirectorGurudutt Velpula,and Professor Guohua Bai from Faculty of Computing. SSPU Vice President Ding Li met with the guests at the Academic Exchange Center.

Vice President Ding Li firstly welcomedBTH delegation’s visit to SSPU and introduced recent development of SSPU to the guests. He said that since the partnership between SSPU and BTH was established in 2008, the two sides have carried out close and comprehensive exchange and cooperation. The visit to SSPU this time not only witnesses but also continues the 15-year friendship of the two institutions. SSPU is located in Pudong New Area, Shanghai, where China’s most advanced manufacturing industry and other emerging industries are concentrated. And SSPU keeps broad cooperation with many renowned companies. All these create exceptional advantages for the two institutions to further promote high-level collaborations in joint education of students and cooperative research in the fields of Mechanical Engineering and Electronic Information. He hoped that the two sides could take the visit as an opportunity to deepen the existing cooperation and explore new collaboration possibilities so as to broaden students’ global vision and elevate their international cooperation abilities as well as to promote the mutual development of relevant disciplines at both SSPU and BTH.

Deputy Vice-ChancellorAndreas Larsson introduced BTH’s advantages in the fields of digitalization and Sustainable Development, its development strategy, orientation, university-enterprise cooperation, internationalization, etc. He hoped the two sides could elevate the level of collaboration while deepening the existing cooperation, and jointly explore the future cooperation in a more innovative way. 

Qiao Liqing, Director of SSPU International Office, Li Ning, Vice Dean of SSPU School of Intelligent Manufacturing and Control Engineering, Shi Linxiang, Vice Dean of SSPU School of Computer and Information Engineering shared views on the meeting. Both sides have agreed to continue the cooperation in Chinese-foreign cooperatively-runeducational projects, teacher mobility, undergraduate double degree programs, student exchange programs, joint international conferences, joint research, etc., discussed and reached consensuses on developing joint education of Masters and Ph.D. students, exchange programs for Masters, combined Bachelor-Master degree programs, joint labs, and various cooperation in the field of Computer. 

During the visit, the delegation had a campus tour. They visited the Smart Manufacturing Factory Lab, Engineering Training and Innovation Education Center, etc.