Jointly initiated by Southeast University and University of Birmingham, the founding ceremony of World Alliance of Universities on Carbon Neutrality (WAUCN) was held in Nanjing recently. President Guo Dongming and Vice President Song Yongchen attended the inauguration ceremony online.
This is the first world alliance of universities focusing on talent training and research cooperation in the field of carbon neutrality technologies. The founding members of the Alliance include DUT and more than 10 other “Double First-Class” universities, the University of Birmingham and other world-renowned universities. Nearly 30 universities and research institutes around the world joined the Alliance.
The initiative of building the WAUCN in the new era aims to leverage universities’ profound research resources in basic science and extensive interdisciplinary integration, and speed up constructing systems for carbon neutrality talent cultivation and scientific innovation in universities. Via the Alliance, cooperation and exchanges among global universities will be further promoted, so as to carry out joint talent cultivation and scientific research in carbon neutrality technologies in an all-round way, and proactively strengthen international cooperation in addressing climate change.
Founding members of WAUCN
Southeast University
Beihang University
Tianjin University
Dalian University of Technology
Harbin Institute of Technology
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Tongji University
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Chongqing University
Xi’an Jiaotong University
North China Electric Power University
China University of Mining and Technology
University of Science and Technology of China
Zhejiang University
South China University of Technology
University of Birmingham
Chiang Mai University
University of Kentucky
Khalifa University
Leibniz-Gemeinschaft
Monash University
The University of Edinburgh
Imperial College London
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Korea University
Federal University of Minas Gerais
University of Nottingham
South Ural State University（National Research University）
Editor: Li Xiang
