Shanghai International School of Chief Technology Officer (hereinafter referred to as the“CTO School” )in combination with the ECNU-University of Haifa Joint Translational Science and Technology Research Institute and the Asia Europe Business School, absorbs and integrates the technology transformation and business education systems of Israel and France, jointly builds the China-Israel-France technology and business innovation education alliance, and implements open schooling.
The Joint Translational Science and Technology Research Institute (hereinafter referred to as the “Joint Research Institute”) was formally established by the ECNU and the University of Haifa in March 2016, and was jointly supported by Shanghai Minhang District People's Government and Shanghai Zizhu High-tech Park (Group) Co., Ltd.
The Joint Research Institute, based on the high-level joint scientific research of the two schools’ pre-ponderant disciplines, takes the lead in carrying out deep scientific research and academic programs in the four fields of ecological and environmental engineering, biological foundation and medical engineering, neural and brain science and data science, in order to cultivate the high-level scientific and technological application talents with innovative and internationalized vision and create the interdisciplinary translational science and technology innovation base.
The Joint Research Institute cultivates outstanding doctoral students, master's students and recruits postdoctoral researchers, committed to cultivating first-class innovation and entrepreneurship reserve talents for both China and the world. At present, the Joint Research Institute has been approved for four national-level China-Israeli joint research programs, with a total of seven co-training doctorate students and one foreign expert introduced.
The Joint Research Institute and Minhang District Government jointly built two innovative functional platforms (hereinafter referred to as “biopharmaceutical platform” and the “gene editing and cell therapy platform”), and the platform construction plan has been written into the “Implementation Plan” and “Three-year Action Plan” of Minhang Scientific and Technological Achievements Transfer and Transformation Demonstration Zone.
The “Shanghai China-Israel Innovation Promotion Center,” a municipal private non-enterprise unit jointly established by the Joint Research Institute, Shanghai China-Israel Innovation Center, University of Haifa, etc., will provide proactive, professional and one-stop services for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements at home and abroad.
The construction of the Joint Research Institute will actively promote the construction and development of Minhang National Scientific and Technological Achievements Transfer and Transformation Demonstration Zone, the National Intellectual Property Demonstration Zone and Shanghai China-Israel Innovation Park and play an important role in driving Shanghai as a science and innovation center with global influence.
Asia Europe Business School was jointly created by East China Normal University, a double first-class construction university in the world, and emlyon business school, a prestigious university in Europe in June 2015. It is supported by Shanghai Minhang District People’s Government and Shanghai Zizhu Hi-Tech Zone (Group) Co.,Ltd.
The school integrates the multidisciplinary comprehensive advantages of East China Normal University and the business education background of emlyon business school, focusing on cultivating the students' innovation abilities and international management abilities in the global business environment.
The school is committed to the development of new business knowledge and has formed a faculty and scientific research team composed of outstanding talents from world-class universities. It took the lead in establishing the master’s degree on High-end Brand Management in the world and its featured discipline Brand Strategy and Enterprise Growth has gained high reputation and influence both at home and abroad. Focusing on international talent cultivation, the school has established teaching and practice bases in cooperation with well-known enterprises at home and abroad to provide leading management talents with global vision, transnational working ability and social responsibility for serving the national and world market.