On March 13, aseven-member delegation led by Prof. Manuel Rodenas and Prof. Arantxa Aznar, Vice Presidents of Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT) in Spain, paid a visit to our university. Zhou Jipeng, Member of the University Party Committee and Vice President, met with the delegation and attended the symposium. Officials in charge and relevant stafffromthe International Affairs Office, theSchool of Agriculture Science and Technologyand theSchool of Food Science and Engineering participated in the event.
On behalf of the university, Zhou Jipeng extended a warm welcome to the visiting delegation and briefly introduced the university’s history, academic strengths and international development. Henotedthat deepening international educational cooperation is an important path toadvancingthe high-quality development of the university, and heexpressed the hope that that both sides would take this visit as an opportunity tostrengthen cooperation and achieve complementary advantages andmutual benefitin areas such as faculty and student exchanges and joint programs.
Manuel Rodenas expressed his gratitude for the warm reception and provided a detailed introductiontoUPCT’s institutional profile, disciplinary strengths and international cooperation strategies. He noted that Shandong AgricultureandEngineering University has achieved remarkable results in applied talent cultivation and agricultural science and technology innovation, andthattherearebroad prospectsfor cooperation between the two universitiesin fieldssuch asagricultural engineering, food science,andinformation engineering,andexpressedhis expectation of jointly promoting educational and cultural exchanges between China and Spain.
At the symposium, Professor Shu Jing, Dean oftheSchool of AgricultureScience and Technology, introduced the college’s progress in discipline development, teaching reform and transformation of scientific research achievements in recent years, and put forward specific suggestions for further cooperation with UPCT in the future. The two sides held in-depth discussions on topics such as the joint talent cultivation mechanisms, cooperative education models, and the development of international research platforms, and reached a number of preliminary cooperation agreements in a warm and productive atmosphere. After themeeting, the delegationtouredthe teaching and scientific research laboratories of theSchoolof Food Science and Engineering, and spoke highly of the university’s teaching conditions, scientific research strength and achievements in internationalization.
Both sides agreedtotake this exchange as a new starting point to continuously advancepracticalcooperation, strive toachievehigh-qualityoutcomesat an early date, and make positive contributions to regional economic and social development as well as Sino-Spanish cultural exchanges.
It isreportedthatUniversidad Politécnica de Cartagena,founded in 1998, is a renowned public polytechnic university in the Region of Murcia, Spain, and one of the four major polytechnic universities in Spain (a member of the UP4 Alliance), enjoying a high reputation in the fields of engineering, agriculture, food science and others. This visit has laid a solid foundation forfurther cooperation between our university and Spanish institutions.
