Construction of CWEG’s Transnational Research Platform WATCH Commenced
2017-12-12 On December 11, 2017, the Construction Kick-off Meeting for the Sino-German Centre for Water And healTh research (WATCH) & the First Meeting of the Bilateral Steering Committee was successfully convened in RWTH Aachen University, Germany.
Representatives from multiple scientific academies (including RWTH Aachen University and Sichuan University) and institutions delivered wonderful reports at the meeting. As the only enterprise representative, Dr. Pang Hongtao, Director of the Beijing Technology R&D Center under CWEG, introduced China’s successful practices in watershed management and underground WWTP, which was unanimously recognized by attendees from both China and Germany.
The WATCH is an international technology R&D cooperation platform approved by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and supported by the Chinese Ministry of Education to deal with multiple fields, including water environment, sanitation, health care and information. As the co-founder of WATCH, CWEG will vigorously push forward the construction of WATCH base in China, accelerate the introduction of Germany""s advanced environmental technology, and promote industrial transformation and application, in an effort to build up a transnational industry-university-research institution integrating education, research and economic development, boosting China""s water environment industry.
Representatives from multiple scientific academies (including RWTH Aachen University and Sichuan University) and institutions delivered wonderful reports at the meeting. As the only enterprise representative, Dr. Pang Hongtao, Director of the Beijing Technology R&D Center under CWEG, introduced China’s successful practices in watershed management and underground WWTP, which was unanimously recognized by attendees from both China and Germany.
The WATCH is an international technology R&D cooperation platform approved by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and supported by the Chinese Ministry of Education to deal with multiple fields, including water environment, sanitation, health care and information. As the co-founder of WATCH, CWEG will vigorously push forward the construction of WATCH base in China, accelerate the introduction of Germany""s advanced environmental technology, and promote industrial transformation and application, in an effort to build up a transnational industry-university-research institution integrating education, research and economic development, boosting China""s water environment industry.