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2010 IARU Presidents‘ Meeting Held at
Peking University
PKU NEWS 2010—04--15
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Peking University, Apr. 15, 2010: "Our campus buildings are constructed by the
government, the university and technology companies together. We take pride in the
fact that the cooperation is a successful demonstration of the combined effort in
technology, business and university," said the representative from University of
Copenhagen in the annual presidents' meeting of IARU (International Alliance of
Research Universities) held at Peking University on April 13.
In the two-day annual meeting, the participants summarized the activities of IARU in
the past year of 2009 and deliberated over the 2010 annual plan of the Alliance.
Presidents from Australian National University, ETH Zurich, National University of
Singapore, University of California, Berkeley, University of Cambridge, University of
Copenhagen, University of Oxford, the University of Tokyo, Yale University and
Peking University attended the meeting.
Since the meeting was just after the Copenhagen Summit, "Green Campus" and
"Sustainable Campus" became the focus of participants.
Representative from Yale University made a brief presentation on the situation of
their students' efforts in founding associations for sustainable development. He
emphasized that the university benefits from students' efforts and in turn the students
have enhanced their leadership while reaching out to society. The representative
from University of Copenhagen presented the project of "Environment-friendly
Lighthouse" and further introduced the cooperation between the university and
research institutions and governments. Representatives from Oxford University also
introduced the progress of their researches and listened to recommendations from
other participants.
At the meeting, Academician Zhou Qifeng, President of Peking University,
introduced efforts and achievements of Peking University in building a "Green
Campus." He pointed out that Peking University has been devoted to the building of
"Low Carbon Campus" and "Green Campus." Peking University has been trying to
raise environmental awareness on campus and encouraging students to initiate and
join in activities aimed at improving the ecological environment, e.g. paper recycling,
tree planting, etc. The leading and distinguished efforts made by PKU scholars in the
construction of a society of sustainable development were particularly mentioned in
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