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ESMT cooperates with Tongji University
First MBA class starts in January 2006
The countdown is on: in January 2006
the first MBA class will come together at
the completely renovated campus of the
European School of Management and
Technology (esmt) in Berlin. The students
will enjoy a state-of-the-art learning
environment with an intriguing history.
The esmt campus is located in the
building that formerly served as the
offices of Erich Honecker, longtime Head
of State of the former GDR.
esmt was officially founded in October
2002 on the initiative of 25 German blue
chip companies and associations, not as
a German school, but as an international
management school in the very heart of
Europe. The School strives to facilitate
the development of a new generation of
leaders for the 21 st Century through
participant-centered, hands-on learning
processes which combine high impact
individual learning aimed at enlarging
First-ever Sino-German Partner
Institute inaugurated in Shanghai
The Chinese Academy of Sciences and
the Max-Planck-Society have
inaugurated their first joint “Partner
Institute” in Shanghai. Both the President
of the Chinese Academy of Science, Lu
Yongxiang, and the President of the Max-
Planck-Society, Peter Gruss, attended the
opening ceremony in Shanghai. The
“MPG/CAS Partner Institute for
Computational Biology” (PICB) resides
on the campus of the Shanghai Institutes
of Biological Sciences (SIBS) which
belongs to the Chinese Academy of
Sciences. It will not only complement the
wide range of experimental topics at the
SIBS, but also a number of ongoing
projects at Max-Planck-Institutes in
Germany relating to theoretical biology.
Adopting operation mechanisms of
Max-Planck-Institutes, it will endeavor to
build a platform combining theoretical
and experimental research, explore key
issues in the biological sciences on the
career opportunities and scope of
responsibilities with high impact for
sponsoring companies.
The School offers, apart from the MBA
programme, a full bandwidth of executive
education programs ranging from open
enrollment programs for an international
and a German audience to customized
solutions and business simulations.
esmt is in the process of expanding its
academic partnerships and has just
entered into a cooperation with the
School of Economics and Management
of Tongji
University in
Shanghai. The
School of
European School of Economics and
Management and Technology
Management and
esmt have joined
forces for educational and academic
exchange. The two institutions agreed in
October 2005 to promote mutually
beneficial activities in the areas of
education and research. This includes,
but is not limited to, MBA student
exchanges, faculty exchanges and joint
research projects.
(Christiane Hach, esmt)
basis of mathematics, statistics, and
computer science, and educate young
scientists in the field of computational
and theoretical biology. Due to the
proximity to the experimental bioscience
institutes in Shanghai and close ties to a
number of Max-Planck-Institutes in
Germany, work done at these institutes
can be accompanied, utilized, and
supported by PICB immediately. Thus,
the new institute will round off and
complement research activities at the
MPG and the CAS.
The partner institute is jointly funded
by the Chinese Academy of Science and
the Max-Planck-Society in Germany.
During the five-year start-up phase, the
CAS will provide two thirds of the
estimated costs of 7.5 million Euro while
project funding from the Federal Ministry
for Education and Research will account
for the remaining one-third. The Max-
Planck-Society and the Chinese Academy
New Partner-
Group in Hefei
Max-Planck-Society and the Chinese
Academy of Sciences have set up a
partner group at the University of
Science and Technology of China (USTC)
in Hefei, Anhui Province. In cooperation
with Prof. Markus Antonietti, director of
the MPG Institute of Colloids and
Interfaces in Potsdam, and Dr. Helmut
Cölfen, head of the ultracentrifuge
laboratory at this institute, the group will
conduct research into nanometer
discreteness materials, biomimetic
synthesis and other multidisciplinary
issues over the next five years.
The group will be headed by Prof. Yu
Shuhong. He worked at the MPG
Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in
Potsdam in 2001 and 2002 as a von-
Humboldt-scholar.
The group is one of 11 MPG partner
groups in China. All the group leaders
have been working as scientists in
Germany before. After their return they
receive support for a period of five years
to continue their research and for the
establishment of partnership relations
with their corresponding partners at MPG
institutes and between their colleagues
in Germany and China. (CAS)
of Sciences have been cooperating for
more than 30 years now. Still, jointly
establishing a partner institute marks a
new step in both parties scientific
cooperation.
(aha/Prof. Andreas Dress)
Contact:
CAS-MPG Partner Institute for
Computational Biology
Shanghai Institutes for Biological
Sciences
Chinese Academy of Sciences
320 Yue Yang Road
Shanghai 200031
Tel.: 0086 21 54920452
Fax: 0086 21 54920451
Web: www.icb.ac.cn
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