The first batch of student selection work for the "Innovative Talents Cultivation Project for Integrated Civil Engineering Infrastructure" of the China Scholarship Council has recently started. The National Center for International Research of Green Buildings and Built Environments and the School of Civil Engineering successfully secured the national scholarship to support visiting scholars, postdoctoral researchers, PhD and master's students to study abroad. The School of Civil Engineering and the overseas partner universities jointly cultivate a group of innovative and outstanding talents with cross-cultural communication abilities in integrated civil engineering infrastructure and built environments. The program serves the country's major development strategies, such as "Climate Change" and "One Belt, One Road". As one of the partners of this project, the University of Reading in the UK is mainly responsible for selecting and receiving master's students from Chongqing University to participate in the " Design and Management of Sustainable Built Environments" programme at the University of Reading. In order to enable students of Chongqing University to understand and actively participate in this project, the project team invited Associate Professor Emmanuel Essah, head of the Master programme of "Design and Management of Sustainable Built Environments" at the University of Reading, UK, to hold a project introduction meeting on the afternoon of January 18, 2023. Professor Wengang Zhang, Vice Head of the School of Civil Engineering at Chongqing University, chaired the meeting. More than 40 students from related majors of the School of Civil Engineering participated online.
