MOU Signed with TAU for Closer Collaboration
Professor Chen Jining, President of Tsinghua University, and Professor Joseph Klafter, President of Tel Aviv University, signed the collaboration MOU on an unprecedented scale in Beijing on September 10, 2013.
(Photo by Chang Zhidong, Tsinghua)
Whereas Tsinghua University and Tel Aviv University desire to build a strategic cooperation in innovative research and education for the mutual benefit of both institutions and nations, the two universities have agreed on the intention to co-establish a unique joint center (named the XIN Center) as an international hub for scientific and technical innovation. XIN will redefine interdisciplinary research and innovation, provide optimal conditions for creativity, and promote activity in fields that can truly impact society in both countries and the whole world.
(Photo by Chang Zhidong, Tsinghua)
The research center will initially focus on limited fields of researches, which is enjoying accelerated development both in China and Israel. But in time the aim is to expand to other fields of science. The Center will aspire to provide an answer to grand challenges and its projects will work toward innovative application by collaboration with the high-tech industry.
When excellence meets innovation
The XIN Center will aim to recruit the top research students from the two countries as well as the rest of world. The projects will encourage creativity and innovation among its students, by giving them optimal conditions to allow them to create, promote and leverage their ideas in the areas of technology and science. The best researchers will teach at the research center, serve as instructors and mentors to the research students, and help them develop leading projects.
(Photo by Chang Zhidong, Tsinghua)
The joint research center will recruit leading researchers in the world. The preeminence of the human capital and resources that will be available to the XIN Center will win academic recognition internationally and partnerships with the technology industry in both countries.
President Chen expressed the readiness of Tsinghua University to work with Tel Aviv University in order to push forward cross-disciplinary research and explore ways to resolve grand global challenges. The president stressed the importance to cultivate innovative future scientists and leaders. He also noted that Tsinghua University will give full support to the XIN Center and make its due contribution to the global development of innovation research and education.
Prof. Klafter noted that this is an exceptionally important agreement, opening up new horizons for Israel and Israeli society. According to him, the establishment of the XIN center is evidence of the considerable esteem in which the Chinese hold Israeli innovation and the high academic standard of Tel Aviv University.
