Chinese Academy of Sciences and EPFL Renew Agreement in Davos
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The agreement signed in 2010 between the Chinese Academy of Sciences and EPFL was renewed yesterday, a few hours before the WEF opening ceremony in Davos, in the presence of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Swiss President Simonetta Sommaruga and Federal Councillors Alain Berset and Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf.
In 2010, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the EPFL signed a five-year agreement to allow their faculty and researchers to collaborate and co-publish at the highest level.
With this agreement, the CAS became the number one high-level Chinese institution co-publishing with EPFL scientists. Over 5 years, 723 science papers were published jointly by the EPFL and Chinese institutions, including 202 with the CAS.
The CAS, along with Harvard, Berkeley and MIT, is among the worldwide scientific institutions which cite EPFL research most often. Seen by country, the overall impact of EPFL publications is greatest in the US, China, Germany, France, Great Britain and Japan, according to an independent survey conducted by the University of Leiden in June 2014 on behalf of the ETH Board.
To build on this success, the CAS and the EPFL have decided to renew their agreement for a further period of five years. As previously, this relates to all research areas: physics, mathematics, chemistry, optics, electrical engineering, micro and nano engineering, environmental sciences, life sciences and bioengineering. In the period ahead, both partners intend to particularly focus on collaboration in the field of health, neuroscience and neural computing.
Two bilateral scientific meetings will take place this year - one in China and one in Geneva, on Campus Biotech, to be officially opened by Federal Councillor Johann Schneider-Ammann on 22 May. These encounters will give interested scientists an opportunity to specify their research interests.
The agreement renewal took place in Davos, shortly before the opening of the WEF, in the presence of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, the President of the Confederation Simonetta Sommaruga and Federal Councillors Alain Berset and Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf.
Contact: Madeleine von Holzen, EPFL Spokesperson
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