From May 31, 2013 to June 3, Professor Yu Bo, the dean of School of Management, and Professor Liang Dapeng, the associate dean headed to Angers, France to attend the start-up meeting of Alliance of Chinese & European Business Schools and signed the Agreement on Founding Members of Alliance on behalf of School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology.
Alliance of Chinese & European Business Schools was initially established by EFMD (European Foundation for Management Development, whose EQUIS certification was considered as one of the top 3 certifications by internationally famous business schools). The strategic alliance consisting of Great China Region and 20 leading European business schools is called ACE for short. The start-up meeting of the Alliance was held at ESSCA. Over 50 persons attended the meeting, including Mr. Cheng Siwei, the dean of School of Management in CAS, professor Eric Cornuel, the President of EFMD, Mr. Ma Yansheng, the education counselor of Chinese embassy in France and the dean of Chinese & European Business Schools.
The Alliance of Chinese & European Business Schools aims to promote the cooperation among all business schools, schools of economics and schools of management in China and Europe and enhance the exchanges and joint development of all Sino-Euro membership schools. 20 famous Chinese and European universities attended the start-up ceremony. Out of them, there were 10 universities from Great China Region, one from per region of Mainland China and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan; In Europe, the other 10 universities were respectively from Germany, UK, France, Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, Sweden, Portugal, and the Czech Republic etc. Besides, the original members of the Alliance include renowned universities, such as Harbin Institute of Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen University, Taiwan Tsinghua University, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the University of Macau, Germany EBS Business School, Lisbon Catholic University, Milan Polytechnic University, Netherlands Rotterdam Business School, and Belgium Antwerp Business School. (In the Top 50 Business Schools selected by Financial Times, Lisbon Catholic University ranked 33rd; Netherlands Rotterdam Business School ranked 7th in Europe and 1st in Holland. In QS World University Rankings 2012, Milan Polytechnic University ranked 48th.)
The start-up ceremony of Alliance of Chinese & European Business Schools was held at ESSCA on May 31. And representatives of presidents and deans from 20 universities signed the Agreement on Joining in the Alliance of Chinese & European Business Schools. Yu Bo, the dean of School of Management attended the start-up ceremony and the signing ceremony and received the nameplate with Original Member of Alliance of Chinese & European Business Schools printed on it. In the first coordination meeting of original members, Professor Yu Bo made a general introduction on HIT's School of Management from student training, international cooperation and scientific research. And he also proposed suggestions on the development goals for the ACE and the specific measures. Meanwhile, the president of Chinese & European Business School thought highly of the HIT's School of Management and was intensively interested in the further cooperation with it.
On June 3, the dean Yu Bo and the associate dean Liang Dapeng visited the Ecole Polytechnic University, which is one of French's top engineering schools. And in 2011, it jointly held the First Sino-French International Conference on Low-Carbon Economy and Technology Innovation with HIT. The dean Yu Bo, the university's head in charge of international cooperation as well as a number of prominent professors made further discussion on promoting cooperation between the two universities. During the visit, the recruitment for doctoral student staying in France was also held. Meanwhile, many students submitted their resumes, expressing their strong desire to work in HIT.
The Alliance of Chinese & European Business Schools is the first well-known strategic alliances between universities both in China and Europe and it is therefore of historic significance. It shall be a driving force to the School of Management in international cooperation and its development.
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