Visit of the Vice-Minister of Education of China at the School
On February 21st, we had the pleasure to welcome today the Vice-Minister of Education of China, Mr CHEN Jie, accompanied by representatives of the Chinese Embassy in France.
Anthony Briant, Director, was accompanied by Gilles Robin, Deputy Director, Marie-Christine Bert, Director of International Relations and Corporate Partnerships, Marie Mathieu-Pruvost, Director of Teaching, Emmanuel Girard, Deputy Director of Research, Yu Jun Cui, Research Director and Professor, Navier Laboratory, coordinator of academic exchanges with Chinese universities and Olivier Cormier, Deputy Director of Change Management and Transformation, General Secretariat of the Ministry of Ecological Transition.
On the programme: visit of the Tongji office, discovery of the Sino-French historical heritage, visit of the Halle Freyssinet and exchanges with the Chinese students in the d.school studio.
This visit confirmed their interest in our model of engineering program and allowed for exchanges on central themes, such as sustainable development or artificial intelligence, both in teaching and research.
Mr. CHEN Jie, as President of Tongji University until last January, was a signatory of the framework agreement of April 2022, which frames all the cooperation built since the 1990s with Tongji University, notably within the framework of the Franco-Chinese Institute of Engineering and Management, and which aims to:
- maintain and develop cooperation in favour of student exchanges and double degree programmes
- promote the co-supervision of theses,
- cooperate in the organisation of student study trips (as part of the Engineers of Excellence programme),
- develop innovation services that meet the needs of French and Chinese companies in the fields of transport and sustainable cities
- develop Franco-Chinese continuing education for executives and engineers, company managers and private and public organisations.
In addition to Tongji University, Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussées also has double-degree agreements with Tsinghua University, Southeast University and Xi'an Jiaotong University, enabling the School to welcome a total of 68 engineering students since 2011 and 51 students from 8 other Chinese universities since 2007. In addition, there are 21 post-doctoral students, doctoral students and masters students currently enrolled at the School.
©Yann Pirou