{"id":1135,"date":"2018-10-10T11:42:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T10:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/?p=1135"},"modified":"2018-10-24T12:44:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T11:44:27","slug":"kent-signs-new-memorandum-of-understanding-with-northwestern-polytechnical-university-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/2018\/10\/10\/kent-signs-new-memorandum-of-understanding-with-northwestern-polytechnical-university-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent signs new Memorandum of Understanding with Northwestern Polytechnical University, China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kent was delighted to welcome <a href=\"http:\/\/en.nwpu.edu.cn\/\">Northwestern Polytechnical University<\/a> (NPU) on the 5th October 2018, to\u00a0formally mark a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)\u00a0between our two institutions.\u00a0NPU\u00a0specialises in education and research in the fields of aeronautical, astronautical and marine engineering,\u00a0and has strong research connections with\u00a0Kent&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eda.kent.ac.uk\/\">School of Engineering and Digital Arts<\/a>. The MoU formalises this relationship which has been built through successful joint\u00a0research projects. A joint NPU-Kent research project on a multi-mode brain-computer integrated control technique was selected as part of a China-UK Science and Innovation Forum and Achievements Exhibition in December 2017, which was attended by the Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong, Duke of York, Prince Andrew, and other high-ranking representatives.<\/p>\n<p>The MoU will facilitate the exchange of academic and research staff and\u00a0collaboration in joint research.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to this\u00a0partnership between our institutions.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, email <a href=\"mailto:internationalpartnerships@kent.ac.uk\">internationalpartnerships@kent.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent was delighted to welcome Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU) on the 5th October 2018, to\u00a0formally mark a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)\u00a0between our two institutions.\u00a0NPU\u00a0specialises &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/2018\/10\/10\/kent-signs-new-memorandum-of-understanding-with-northwestern-polytechnical-university-china\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39527,"featured_media":1136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1153,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions\/1153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}