Tongji University enhances Sino-Italian cooperation in education

As Tongji University in Shanghai celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Sino-Italian Campus, it inaugurated the Sino-Italian College of Engineering and Innovation on Tuesday to further strengthen the two nations' cooperation in education.

Co-built by Tongji and the Polytechnic University of Turin in Italy, the college focuses on addressing the shared global challenges of sustainable development and the transformation driven by artificial intelligence.

It upholds a distinctive approach to engineering innovation, featuring the interdisciplinary integration of AI, green development and design. It is committed to cultivating outstanding, multidisciplinary engineering innovators who excel in science and technology, engineering, arts and international affairs, while developing engineering innovations that benefit humanity.

The first class of 86 master's students was welcomed to the new college at the inauguration ceremony to begin their studies in climate change and carbon neutrality, systems design and intelligent innovation, as well as information and communications technology and embodied intelligence.