On October 30, a delegation led by Julian Voss, Member of the Board and Vice President for International Cooperation of the PFH Private University of Applied Sciences Göttingen (Germany), visited SIT. Wu Zhijun, Member of the Standing Committee of the CPC SIT Committee and Vice President, met the guests at the Fengxian Campus, accompanied by the heads of the Office of Undergraduate Education and the Office of International Exchange.

Wu Zhijun welcomed Julian Voss and his delegation and briefed them on the University's history, its distinctive features and the development of the relevant disciplines and programs. He noted that Germany's dual-system model of talent cultivation, which is deeply integrated with industrial practice, offers valuable reference for cultivating application-oriented talent. The two universities share a similar positioning and the same roots, and are highly aligned in their philosophy of application-oriented education, so their cooperation can generate a synergy of "1+1 > 2". He expressed the hope that this visit would serve as an opportunity to focus on advancing the joint education cooperation between the two universities and to bring the project to implementation at an early date.

Julian Voss introduced the PFH Private University of Applied Sciences Göttingen, including its operations and its program portfolio. He said that Shanghai Institute of Technology is the University's first partner in Shanghai, and that the University attaches great importance to and values its cooperation with SIT and is fully confident about the prospects of that cooperation. He stressed that university-industry cooperation is a distinctive feature of the University, and that he looked forward to in-depth cooperation with SIT in the relevant fields and to jointly advancing the implementation of the project.

The two sides held in-depth discussions on the 4+0 joint education program in Materials Science.

The PFH Private University of Applied Sciences Göttingen is the oldest private university in Lower Saxony. It has two campuses, in Göttingen and Stade, and offers 51 bachelor's and master's programs. It has a board of directors made up of 13 major companies and has established stable cooperation with more than 500 enterprises and institutions.