Signing and Launching Ceremony of the University Consortium International (UCI)

For sustainable development, universities in the modern era must participate strongly in the integration process as well as the autonomy of internationalization of university activities. This process may be fast or slow but it is a must-do task to ensure that all educational, science and technological activities of a university are not only close to international standards but also are constantly exchanged and learned from each other so that things taught and learned at the university are the same with what the best universities in the world are doing. This ensures the quality of education and graduates from these universities that they will be successful at work around the world.

Agreeing with this goal, TDTU took the initiative and cooperated with TDTU’s partner universities to establish the University Consortium International (UCI). These first 10 universities (known as Founding Members) also signed the statute to form UCI. The signing and launching ceremony of UCI took place solemnly at TDTU on April 4, 2019.

Here is the list of 10 founding members of UCI:

• Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam
• Pukyong National University, Republic of Korea
• Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland 
• Hasselt University, Belgium
• Technical University of Ostrava, the Czech Republic
• Tomas Bata University in Zlín, the Czech Republic
• University College of Northern Denmark, Denmark
• University of Trieste, Italy
• National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
• Saxion University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands

In addition to the goal of internationalizing and standardizing the quality of education for the benefits of the learners in the entire UCI, UCI also aims to build a university community, providing and supporting facilities and conditions for professors, scientists and learners to study and easily get part-time jobs at all universities in UCI.

European Cooperation Center (ECC) and the Bata Center have significantly contributed to the formation of links and cooperation with universities in Europe, which results in a sustainable cooperative relationship between Technical University of Ostrava, Tomas Bata University, University of Trieste ... and TDTU, At the end of the UCI launch ceremony, delegations representing of Technical Universities of Ostrava and Tomas Bata University visited ECC Center and  Bata Center. Dr. Phan Dao, Director of ECC Center discussed with Prof. Vaclav Snasel, Rector of Technical University of Ostrava, Prof. Vladimr Sedla Sedík, Rector of Tomas Bata University and Prof. Petr Saha, Vice Rector about the future cooperation and development.

Some photos of the event:

Leaders of universities at the Launching Ceremony