On March 26, Federico Delfino, Rector of the University of Genoa (hereinafter referred to as UniGe) led a delegation to Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences (hereinafter referred to as SARI). The two parties signed a cooperation agreement to build a joint interdisciplinary research center. President and Party Secretary of SARI Prof. Huang Zhengren, Vice President Prof. Wei Wei attended the signing ceremony, which was presided over by Wei Wei.

Huang Zhengren welcomed the delegation from the University of Genoa on behalf of SARI. He thought highly of the achievements made by UniGe in the fields of industrial and information engineering, materials science, clean energy, etc., and pointed out that the research fields and disciplinary advantages of both sides are highly compatible. He looks forward to building the interdisciplinary research center as a cradle for talent cultivation, a bridge for technology transformation, and a window for cultural communication.

Federico Delphino expressed appreciation for the warm reception and noted that Shanghai and Genoa are both very important port cities. He is pleased to establish new cooperative relationship with SARI to promote technological innovation in key fields between China and Italy. He looks forward to concrete cooperation between the two sides in key areas such as intelligent information and communication, low-carbon energy and new material research and development. He believes that the cooperation between the two sides will achieve fruitful results.

By setting up a Joint Interdisciplinary Research Center, SARI and UniGe will cooperate on the transfer of cultural, scientific and technological knowledge through activities such as personnel exchange, scientific research cooperation, seminars, etc. to contribute to the Sino-Italian scientific and educational innovation cooperation.

After the signing ceremony, the delegation visited the Low Carbon Conversion Science and Engineering Center and the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility.