SDU wins awards at the 2023 Shandong Education Equipment Expo. [Photo/sdu.edu.cn]

Recognized as a national innovation and entrepreneurship college and demonstration base, Shandong University attended the first Shandong Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Achievement Exhibition and other major activities during the 2023 Shandong Education Equipment Expo held in Jinan, capital of Shandong province, from July 21 to 23.

SDU had the largest booth at the achievement exhibition, which featured themes such as cultural concept of innovation and entrepreneurship, fruitful results and cooperation.

A series of innovation and entrepreneurship activities were led by Xing Jianping, deputy dean of the School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at SDU, who brought together a number of high-quality projects and products, including postoperative recovery testing equipment, core fusion robots, programming cats and optoelectronic devices chips. Li Ming, head of Shandong's education department, visited SDU's booth and exchanged views with project teams.

At the first forum on the high-quality development of innovation and entrepreneurship education in Shandong during the expo, Xing shared the experience of SDU in integrating innovation and entrepreneurship education into the process of talent cultivation, enhancing students' core capabilities, practical abilities and international competitiveness through competitions, empowering the nurturing of outstanding undergraduate and graduate students, and providing intellectual support for building an innovative country.

Chen Yanjun, assistant to the dean of the School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at SDU, delivered a report stating that the establishment of a sound innovation and entrepreneurship education system should be based on theoretical research, ability, practical training, platform and other aspects, and that it is necessary to create a supportive ecosystem for the innovation and entrepreneurship education.

Chen mentioned that SDU adopts a cultivation model of "one school and three campuses", resource sharing, reasonable structure, scientific layout, distinctive features and outstanding advantages. The university strives to provide better services for teachers and students in innovation and entrepreneurship education.

At the launch ceremony of the strategic cooperation of innovation and entrepreneurship education at SDU, Xing spoke about innovation and entrepreneurship education at SDU, the iPBL-R innovation research-oriented learning program of Starlight Academy and the cloud alliance program.

SDU also won the championship in the 9th Shandong Province College Students Internet+ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition during the expo.