Event venue
“China University of Mining and Technology Friendship Award”
honorary certificate was presented
On the morning of January 10, the awarding ceremony of “China University of Mining and Technology Friendship Award” to Professor Farid Akhtar of School of Engineering and Mathematics, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, was held in the conference room A501 of School of Materials Sciences and Physics.
Tian Feng, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of CUMT, attended the ceremony and presented the honorary certificate of “China University of Mining and Technology Friendship Award" to Professor Akhtar. After the award ceremony, Professor Akhtar and Doctor You Shujie from Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, Professor Albert Vomiero and Associate Professor Alisa Moretti from University of Venice, Italy, and their delegation had an in-depth exchange with the relevant persons in charge of International Office and School of Materials Science and Physics of CUMT on deepening inter-university cooperation and expanding the field of cooperation, and reached an agreement on talent cultivation, teacher exchange, scientific research cooperation and other cooperation under the framework of the UNESCO Chair Project led by University of Venice and University of Luleå University of Technology.
On the afternoon of 10th, Professor Akhtar of Luleå University of Technology, Professor Albert Vomiero and Associate Professor Alisa Moretti of University of Venice gave lectures on “Novel Porous Materials for Decarbonization and Energy Storage in Carbon-Intensive Industries”, “Composite Nano-Systems for Energy Harvesting”, and “Design of Inorganic Nanomaterials to Meet the Challenges of Today’s Energy and Environment” for the students and faculty of School of Materials Science and Physics, respectively, focusing on the international frontiers of the materials discipline.
“China University of Mining and Technology Friendship Award” is the highest honorary award granted by CUMT to foreign experts, which is used to commend foreign experts who have made outstanding contributions to the teaching, scientific research, discipline construction and internationalization. Farid Akhtar is a professor in the Engineering Materials Group of Luleå University of Technology, the only Swedish university with mining characteristics. Professor Akhtar and the team of Professor Feng Peizhong of CUMT were awarded the International Exchange Program between National Natural Science Foundation of China and Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Education in 2015, which led to the signing of Memorandum of Inter-university Cooperation between the two universities in October 2017. Relying on the good foundation of cooperation, in 2020, the team from both sides was awarded Key International (Regional) Cooperative Research Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China, which is the first key type of fund project in the materials discipline of CUMT. Since the cooperation, both sides have published 39 academic papers in Corrosion Science, Dalton Transactions and other international journals, carried out several academic conference exchanges, and carried out visits and exchanges of teachers and students, specialized lectures and other cooperation involving nearly 30 people, which injected fresh impetus into the cooperation and exchanges between the two Chinese and Swiss universities with specialties in the mining industry.
