Two projects jointly launched by ECNU and French universities won international recognition during a high-level meeting between the Chinese and French governments in Paris on June 30.
Two projects jointly launched by ECNU and French universities won international recognition.
Prosfer, a postgraduate training program, and the International Joint Research Center for High-Confidence Software were granted the title of “Excellent Cooperative Projects Between the Chinese and French Universities” at the Sino-French Higher Education Forum: University and Engineering Education, on the sidelines of the third meeting of the China-France High-level Mechanism for Dialogue on People-to-People Exchanges.
Vice ECNU president Wang Rongming received the award from China's vice premier Liu Yandong and senior French officials at the forum held in the Université Paris Descartes, also known as Paris-V.
The Excellent Cooperative Projects Between Chinese and French Universities award goes to demonstrating Chinese-French cooperatively-run schools and projects that make remarkable contributions to higher education exchanges and cooperation between the two countries.
Vice ECNU president Wang Rongming (left) receives the award.
Liu was in Paris attending the third meeting of the China-France High-level Mechanism for Dialogue on People-to-People Exchanges.
In a speech at the meeting, the vice premier said China and France have had a long history of cooperation in education, which has played an indispensable role in boosting China-France ties. Education cooperation pace has picked up this year, the 52nd anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries, including sending exchange students, co-establishing schools, and conducting academic exchanges and scientific research cooperation. Cooperation on engineering education has yielded the biggest fruit. In five years, China will offer scholarship for no less than 500 engineering talents to study in France.
Prosfer was jointly launched by ECNU and Groupe des ENS of France in November 2002 to train postgraduates and Ph. D. students in math, physics, chemistry, sociology, history, philosophy, economics, life science, computer science and education.
As of today, 397 postgraduates have become beneficiaries of the project, 138 of whom have received diplomas. The project has enrolled 125 Ph.D. students and 77 of them have made their dissertation defense. From 2002, Groupe des ENS has sent 140 well-reputed scholars, including academicians of CNRS, the French national scientific institute, to teach at ECNU. Professors of both sides have conducted joint scientific research in multiple fields. In May 2009, ENS Lyon and ECNU announced to found the Joint Research Institute of Science and Society (JORISS), steering cooperation between ECNU and Groupe des ENS into a new era.
Wang Rongming visits some ECNU students studying in France.
During his stay in Paris, vice ECNU president Wang Rongming paid a visit to ECNU students studying in Ecole Normale Superieure and Ecole Normale Suprieure de Cachan.
ECNU was approved by the Ministry of Education last May to partner with Groupe des ENS, Leiden University of the Netherlands, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) of the Netherlands, Lyon Laboratoire d'informatique de Paris (LIP), and France’s Rennes IRISA to establish the International Joint Research Center for High-Confidence Software. It is so far the only information center to be given go-ahead from the ministry.
Hiring academicians with the Academy of Europe and five experts from globally prestigious universities and institutions, the center has made breakthroughs in research by undertaking important research projects, holding seminars and summer schools, arranging regular personnel exchange visits, and sending excellent students to study in partner institutions.
