The ICMM promotes the signature of a memorandum of understanding between CSIC and two high-level scientific institutions in China

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The Materials Science Institute of Madrid (ICMM) has promoted two new agreements between the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the Shanghai Research Institute of Chemical Industry and Xidian University. Both memorandums of understanding (MoU) has been signed this Wednesday, September 24, in the framework of a scientific meeting on Materials Sciences celebrated at the ICMM facilities.

The opening session has been chaired by José Ángel Martín Gago, director of the ICMM-CSIC, and has been attended by Francisco Javier Moreno, Vice President for International Affairs of the CSIC and Yong Qiu, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, and Jing Yao, Ambassador of China in Spain. After a few words emphasizing the desire of both countries to strengthen scientific ties, the institutional signing took place.

The subject matter of these documents is to establish general cooperation guidelines between the Spanish and the Chinese institutions, with the aim of promoting collaboration among their scientists and research groups within the scientific and technological fields in which both have a clear interest. That is why all research centres involved will mutually support each other in the organization and establishment of scientific activities within a bilateral and reciprocal framework.

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The main actions included in these MoUs are: Carrying out scientific and technological research, including but not limit to advanced materials, bio-medicine, energy conservation and environment protection; jointly organizing courses, conferences, congresses, symposiums and training programmes; exchanging scientific and technological information; strengthening scientific and technological cooperation between the two entities through co-publishing (scientific papers, anthologies, monographs, and specialized books, among others); collaborating and participating in the development and implementation of graduate and post-graduate programmes in disciplines of common interest; hosting professors and researchers on academic or research stays for periods of up to one year or on sabbaticals; pursuing the exchange and mobility of students and research staff in training for research stays and professional internships; preparing basic and/or applied research proposals to be submitted to sponsors and any other initiative falling under their powers and in accordance with the purpose of this protocol that the Parties may consider of mutual interest.

Materials Science Meeting

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Besides the official signatures of the MoUs, the Materials Science Meeting at the ICMM has counted on the keynote lectures of Andrés Castellanos, ICMM-CSIC Research Professor, and Wei Huang, Academician of CAS at the Northwestern Polytechnical University and one of the main experts in flexible electronics in the world.

The ICMM has also hosted the celebration of some discussion groups on flexible Electronic & optoelectronics; nanomaterials and their applications, and materials for energy generation, harvesting and storage Hybrid materials. These meeting have been chaired by Miguel Algueró, Carmen Munuera and Pablo Merino, all researchers at the ICMM-CSIC.

Finally, the closing session has been attended by Amaya Mendikoetxea, Rector of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Enrique Sastre, Institutional Delegate of CSIC in Madrid and Shufan Zhao, Deputy Director General of the China Science and Technology Exchange Center. All the authorities agreed to emphasize their desire to strengthen scientific relations between the two countries, stressing that this meeting was not only a place for the exchange of knowledge, but also for the creation of ties.