UM hosted the Global Academic SymposiumTo promote international tutorial alternate and strengthen worldwide partnerships, the University of Macau (UM) hosted the UM Global Academic Symposium 2025. The three-day occasion introduced collectively students from 18 establishments throughout the Chinese mainland, Portugal, Singapore, Australia, France, the UK, Canada, New Zealand, the US, Spain, and South Korea. Attendees shared the newest analysis findings and technological developments, and explored potential collaboration in joint expertise improvement and scientific analysis.
Speaking on the opening ceremony, Rui Martins, vice rector of UM, mentioned that UM actively expands international partnerships, and is dedicated to nurturing excellent expertise with a world perspective by means of initiatives resembling selling interdisciplinary analysis, establishing joint laboratories, launching joint expertise improvement programmes, and facilitating pupil and college alternate.
Ge Wei, vice rector of UM, gave the attendees an summary of UM’s campus within the Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin, and introduced the campus’ improvement plan and tutorial choices. Wang Chunming, director of the UM Global Affairs Office, introduced UM’s methods for attracting extra worldwide college students and selling joint expertise improvement. He additionally talked about that UM is dedicated to selling in-depth alternate and interplay between college students and college the world over. By establishing an intensive international community, the college repeatedly enhances its international affect and attracts prime college students from world wide.
The three-day symposium featured 4 parallel classes, which lined fields resembling arts and design, well being sciences, engineering, synthetic intelligence (AI), energy techniques, and supplies science. They have been organised by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, the Faculty of Health Sciences, the Faculty of Science and Technology, and the Institute of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering at UM, respectively. In addition to attending these classes, attendees visited UM’s analysis services and engaged in in-depth discussions with UM college members, researchers, and postgraduate college students.
The parallel session organised by the UM Faculty of Arts and Humanities was themed ‘New Opportunities in the International Art & Design Education’. It introduced collectively students, designers, artists, and academic directors from main universities to debate modern approaches to and future instructions for artwork and design schooling within the context of globalisation, design schooling tendencies from a world perspective, cross-cultural creative alternate and the revitalisation of native cultures, the position of digital media and AI in creative innovation, and design practices guided by sustainable improvement and social accountability.
The parallel session organised by the UM Faculty of Health Sciences targeted on modern medical methods and illness mechanisms. Leading students, researchers, and clinicians shared their newest analysis findings and scientific purposes in areas resembling precision most cancers remedy, immunotherapy, neurodegenerative illnesses, cardiovascular illnesses, toxicology, vitamin, and intestine microbiota.
The parallel session organised by the UM Faculty of Science and Technology was themed ‘Connecting Ideas—Global Perspectives in Science and Technology’. It introduced collectively famend scientists and analysis consultants from main tutorial establishments to debate innovation and improvement in cutting-edge fields resembling blockchain-based belief techniques, AI-powered medical diagnostics, distributed power grid integration, big fluid antenna techniques, carbon impartial applied sciences, bioinspired smooth robotics, offshore geotechnical engineering, and the optimisation of business techniques.
The parallel session organised by the UM Institute of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering was themed ‘Applied Physics and Materials Engineering’. It introduced collectively world-leading students and professors to debate the newest analysis breakthroughs and improvement tendencies in areas resembling nanotechnology, optoelectronics and optical management, crystal development methods, the appliance of latest power storage supplies, and the event and utility of latest supplies.
The symposium facilitated tutorial alternate amongst attendees, offering a novel, high-level platform for interdisciplinary dialogue, exploring potential cooperation, and selling translational analysis. It additionally enabled in-depth discussions with worldwide companions on potential collaboration. UM will proceed to strengthen its cooperation with the worldwide tutorial group and contribute to the event of upper schooling worldwide.