To strengthen the existing collaborations and to widen them to new teaching areas. With this commitment the representatives of Virginia Tech and the University of Trento left each other after four days of intense meetings. The visit of the delegation of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, polytechnic di Blacksburg (USA), opened on Monday and concluded yesterday at the Rector’s office.
Guru Ghosh (Vice President Outreach & International Affairs), Melissa Coburn (Associate Professor of Italian and Italian Program Director), Derick Maggard (Director Apex Systems Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship), Timothy Long (Professor of Macromolecules & Interfaces), Robert Moore (Professor of Chemistry), Ian Leuschner (Director International Support Services) and Theresa Johansson (Director of Global Education) have met the representatives of the various departments and centres of our University with the purpose of consolidating the ongoing projects and to find new collaborations of common interest. The delegation has been greeted by Maurizio Marchese (pro-rector of the University of Trento for the international development) and Carla Locatelli; precisely during her pro-rector mandate she had a decisive role in the start of the collaboration. Yesterday they concluded their visit by meeting the rector, Paolo Collini.
University of Trento and Virginia Tech are partners since 2009. It dates back to that year the first bilateral agreement between the two Universities for the exchange of professors, students and joint research activity.
The goal of this visit is to consolidate the existing collaborations , to renew the bilateral agreement and to verify and to agree other possible forms of specific cooperation with the single Departments (Summer Schools, students and professors exchange, and other initiatives).
To underline the “proximity” of the two universities there is, among others, the participation of a team of the University of Trento to all the editions of the international competition for new entrepreneurial ideas “VT Business Challenge”, organised by Virginia Tech and where the students of the University of Trento stood out by winning the third price of $5.000 in 2013, and the first unconditional price of $25.000 in 2014.
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