On April 9, 2024, Professor Jürgen Kretschmann, President of Hainan Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences (BiUH), visited the UNESCO International Centre for Engineering Education (ICEE). Professor WANG Sunyu, Deputy Director and Secretary-General of ICEE, QIAO Weifeng, Associate Professor of Research of ICEE, XU Lihui, Assistant to Secretary-General of ICEE, SHEN Ye, Assistant Secretary-General of ICEE, HE Shiyu, Postdoctoral Fellow of ICEE, were presnt at the meering. 

Professor WANG Sunyu welcomed the visit of President Jürgen Kretschmann and pointed out that ICEE, as a UNESCO Category II center focusing on engineering education, specilizes in global engineering education research and practice as well as international cooperation and exchange. He hopes that both sides can fully leverage their respective advantages and jointly explore new cooperation models in engineering education practice, engineering student internship training, and university-enterprise cooperation, in order to cultivate more engineering and technology talents with innovative spirit and international perspective.

President Jürgen Kretschmann expressed gratitude to ICEE for its warm reception. He gave a detailed introduction to the background, educational philosophy, and future development plan of BiUH, and stated that the BiUH's “Work-Integrated” talent training model of University-Enterprise collaboration aims to cultivate innovative, applied, and complex talents that meet the needs of economic and social development. The establishment of BiUH has opened up a new path for the internationalization and diversification of Chinese higher education. He hopes to cooperate extensively with ICEE and make contributions to the development of global engineering education. 

Hainan Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences was established on December 13, 2022. It is a full-time undergraduate sino-foreign cooperative university approved by the Ministry of Education. It is the first independent program of overseas universities in China and the first independent program of German public universities in China.