I.         Brief Introduction

The workshop is themed around "New Energy, New Materials, New Life" and to promote students' future growth in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals such as "building disaster-resistant infrastructure, promoting inclusive and sustainable industrialization, promoting innovation", forming "sustainable consumption and production patterns", promoting future human beings to better cope with international energy shortage, environmental pollution, disease and health and other issues, and ensuring a healthy lifestyle, promote the well-being of people of all ages, and explore more possibilities of "new life" for the community of human destiny.

The workshop is supported by the Feringa Nobel Scientist Joint Research Center, national-level research centers, and key laboratories. Led by academicians and top-level talents, each participating student is assigned one mentor and one senior doctoral student for personalized guidance and experimental research in a 2:1 ratio. The workshop encourages innovative research guided by students' interests. It is based on immersive laboratory research and supplemented by two cutting-edge academic lectures in the field of new energy and new materials per week. Additionally, students will have weekly field visits to ECUST collaborative institutions for hands-on learning. Basic Chinese language learning and cultural experience activities will be arranged to provide students with a more concrete understanding of China's frontier technologies.

II.       Program Content

1.    Frontier Academic Lectures

This workshop will invite academician-level scholars of ECUST, including Qian Feng, Tian He, Tu Shandong, Zhu Weihong, Andrew I. Cooper and Zhang Jinlong, to deliver lectures center on the topic of "New Energy, New Materials, and New Life." They will focus on topics such as optimizing control techniques for maximizing the efficiency of ethylene plants, new varieties of functional dyes and novel concepts in dye molecule design, applications of advanced energy materials and equipment, strengthening the stability and application of photosensitive chemical products, development of novel functional polymers, and the design, synthesis, and application of highly efficient photocatalytic materials in environmental pollution control and energy fields. There will be two academic lectures conducted per week, totaling to 24 hours of learning.

2.    National-level Platform and Key Laboratory Research

ECUST has six national key laboratories: the National Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering and the Joint National Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, National Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology, National Key Laboratory of Coal Liquified Gas and High-efficiency and Low-carbon Utilization, National Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Industry and Industrial Catalysis, National Key Laboratory of Chemical Safety. Additionally, ECUST has six national engineering （technology） research centers: the National Engineering Research Center for Industrial Wastewater Resource Utilization and Harmlessness, etc. ECUST also have 27 provincial and ministerial key scientific research bases, including the Key Laboratory of Power Battery Systems and Safety in the Petroleum and Chemical Industry, the Frontiers Science Center for Materials Biology and Dynamic Chemistry, the International Joint Research Center for Green Energy Chemical Engineering, and the International Cooperation Joint Laboratory for Intelligent Optimization and Manufacturing in the Petroleum and Chemical Industry. In this workshop, participants will be assigned to corresponding research platforms or laboratories based on their majors and research directions, where they will engage in immersive research. Distinguished recipients of the National Outstanding Youth Fund Professor Zhang Lixin, and Du Wenli, along with other experts and scholars, will lead the workshop. Each participant will be paired with one supervisor and one senior doctoral student for precise guidance, with a total research duration of no less than 50 class hours.

3.    Field Visits and Learning

ECUST has collaborated with companies such as Solvay and BASF to conduct joint research and technical breakthroughs in the fields of chemical new materials, aerospace materials, and integrated circuit materials. In this high-level innovation talent workshop, students will have one weekly field visit to ECUST collaborative institutions, aiming to provide students not only with industry knowledge from academic lectures and laboratory research but also with industry-leading knowledge and application scenarios through practical experiences.

4.    Chinese Cultural Experience

This workshop plans to arrange basic Chinese language learning and cultural experience activities. Weekend visits to Shanghai and its surroundings will be added to provide students with a more comprehensive understanding of China, especially Shanghai.

III.    Supervisors Brief Introduction

IV.    Program Arrangement

This program is a scholarship program. The scholarship covers tuition and accommodation expenses, but living expenses and travel costs to Shanghai excluded. The teaching and research language of this program is English.

1.      Enrollment plan

20 International Postdocs, Ph.D. and Master students holding foreign passports.

2.      Duration

July 14^th –August 3^rd, 2024 （3 weeks）

3.      Application Deadline

May 31^st, 2024

4.      Course Arrangement

V.      How to Apply

Log on http://apply.ecust.edu.cn/ to register online.After registration ,input Project Code "AITFTW-2024" and submit your application.