We are glad to announce programs and schedules for the 10^thSino-Foreign Post- Graduates Academic Forum of Jiangsu University.

1. Objectives and Aims:

(i). Promote academic and cultural exchange among Chinese and international students.

(ii). Provide a forum to share scholarly research and findings

(iii). Facilitate interdisciplinary exchanges and discussions among scholars

(iv). Broaden the knowledge base and intellectual capacity of conference attendees.

(v). Act as a platform for multi-cultural exchanges while enhancing student’s public speaking and presentation skills.

(vi). Enhance the internationalization of the research faculty of Jiangsu University

(vii). Provide avenues for knowledge sharing of novel and innovative research as well as benefit from the scholarly experience of experts and professors in such fields.

(viii)Provide collaboration between other universities in china and abroad.

(ix). Attract inputs and active participation of post-graduate students and doctoral candidates in all schools, faculties and research of Jiangsu University and the province.

2. Host units:

Graduate School, Graduate Students' Affairs Department, Overseas Education College, Youth League Committee

3. Details:

Time: November - December 2020 Venue: Lecture Hall of Conference Center (on campus)

Forum language: English

Due to the epidemic prevention and control, current "Sino Foreign Postgraduate Forum" will be held online / offline. Teachers and students inside and outside the school will participate in the forum online and offline.

Sub forum

Undertaking unit

Co-operating unit

ENGINEERING 1

School of Materials Science and Engineering

School of Environmental and Safety Engineering

School of Food and Biological Engineering

School of Chemical Engineering

Institute for Energy Research

ENGINEERING 2

School of Civil Engineering

School of Agricultural Equipment Engineering

School of Electrical and Information Engineering

School of Mathematical Sciences

School of Computer Science and Communication Engineering

School of physics and Electronic Engineering

ENGINEERING 3

School of Automotive and Traffic Engineering

Research Center for Fluid Machinery Engineering

School of Energy and Power Engineering

School of Mechanical Engineering

Automotive Engineering Research Institute

LIFE AND MEDICINE

School of Pharmacy

Affiliated hospital of Jiangsu University

School of Medicine

Institute of Life Sciences

BUSINESS AND FINANCE

School of Finance & Economics

Institute of Science and Technology Information

School of Management

CULTURE EXCHANGE

School of Foreign Languages

School of Arts

School of Law

School of Liberal Arts

School of Marxism

School of Education

4.Sub forums：

1. Science & Engineering I：Advanced Materials, Chemical Industry, Environmental Protection, Food Safety Technology and Sustainable Development

2. Science & Engineering II：Deepening Discipline Integration, Promoting Modernization of Agriculture and Countryside, Driving Rural Revitalization

3. Science & Engineering III：New Energy and Intelligent Vehicles Technology, Intelligent Transport System

4. Life & Medicine: Multidisciplinary Integration and Innovation in Biomedicine

5. Finance & Management: The Changing World and Innovation-driven Development

6. Culture Exchange: The Other and Cultural Diversity

5. Participants:

Participants are welcomed from all disciplines, schools and other universities. Key participants comprises of Chinese and foreign post-graduate and doctoral students of Jiangsu University, expert scholars/teachers.

6. Manuscript Submission Guidelines

(i).Content: It should be easy to understand, enhancing knowledge sharing in different subjects and achieving a win-win situation.

(ii).Authorship: The first author of the research work should be master or PhD candidate, supervisor or a professor and can represent themselves or their university latest research developments.

(iii).Originality: It should present a novel idea and adopt a scientific research approach. It also should be concise, creation and must be original. Such works must have not been presented /published in any conferences, journals and academic forum. It should also be in conformity with the laws of the People’s Republic of China.

7. Content and requirements of the forum

The forum mainly simulates international academic conferences to build a platform for Chinese and foreign post-graduates to show their research ideas, research progress and scientific research achievements. To facilitate the participation of overseas students, overseas students are encouraged to participate in the forum through online delivery of papers, poster presentation and video explanation.

Abstract submission: Participants taking part in cultural exchange sub-forum must submit English abstracts to the respective school for initial evaluation. If it’s chosen for oral presentation you have to submit the whole paper within the specified time frame. Participants taking part in Engineering, Life and medicine and Business sub-forum must submit their whole paper to the respective faculty. For the template of full text and text specifications, see Annex 1, Annex 2

Oral presentation: The school or faculty recommends and selects outstanding papers that could take part in presentation. Experts will be invited to comment on the report. If overseas students contribute and are selected for the oral presentation report, the online connection mode will be adopted to complete the oral presentation. Experts will evaluate oral presentations.

On site display: The exhibitors must prepare wall posters to participate in the onsite display. The teachers must encourage the students to display corresponding physical device or system model .Overseas students outside China can send the electronic version of the wall poster to the person in charge of the faculty, and the faculty will make the wall poster display uniformly.

Theme report: Experts are invited to make the theme report on the spot. Encourage Chinese and foreign graduate students to form teams to participate in this forum.

8. Schedule Arrangement and Timelines

Cultural exchange sub forum-Abstract deadline：October 26^th

Manuscript Submission deadline for selected candidates: November 9^th

Opening Ceremony: November 16^th

Sub forum held time: November 16^thto November 31^st

Closing ceremony of the forum and Awards：December 7^th

10. Awards

The forum will select excellent organization award (no more than 40% of the total number of participating colleges), excellent paper award, and best oral presentation award (no more than 30% of the total number of conference reports) and best Exhibition Award (all teams selected for on-site exhibition) and other awards will be awarded with honorary certificates.

11. Participation rights and interests

(i). Graduate students who have been awarded the Best Oral Presentation Award will make recommendations to the International Department if they wish to participate in academic exchanges among the three universities.

(ii). This academic forum is free of registration fee.

(iii). Post-graduates of Jiangsu University who have won the Best Oral Presentation Award, if their subject is Jiangsu Province's advantageous discipline, will be fully funded by the discipline to participate in an academic conference held abroad and approved by the discipline. Participants or his supervisor should be the first author of the research work, and paper must be accepted by the conference.

(iv). Post-graduates of Jiangsu University, who are awarded excellent thesis awards, if their subject is a superior discipline of Jiangsu Province, will be half-financed to participate in an academic conference held abroad and approved by the discipline. Participants or his supervisor should be the first author of the research work, and paper must be accepted by the conference.

12. Other requirements

(i).Please appoint a contact person to report to the International Education Office of the graduate school and the Graduate Education Management Office of the graduate work department of the Party committee before October 17.

(ii).The number of papers required for academic participation is detailed in Annex 3. Colleges and universities should be encouraged to mobilize the Chinese and foreign postgraduates to actively contribute to the six major sub forums.

(iii).Papers need to be examined and signed by the tutor. The paper version of qualified papers and summary sheet (Annex 4) shall be submitted to the International Education Office of graduate school before November 17.

Supplementary Provisions

The number of Chinese and foreign Postgraduates' contributions to the forum, as well as the number of projects jointly organized by Chinese and foreign graduate students selected for on-site display, are included in the international "sān tónɡ" index system of year-end assessment of each secondary unit.

Contact:

Office of international education, Graduate School, 88788161

Department of research and Engineering Graduate Education Management Office, 88780085

Graduate School Overseas Education College

Graduate Students' Affairs Department Youth League Committee

Attachments:

Annex 1. Template for abstracts of papers

Annex 2. Template of manuscript

October 19^th, 2020