During the Eco Forum Global Annual Conference Guiyang 2014 , Peking University will join 12 famous universities around the world to establish the international university alliance of ecological civilization, which will be headquartered in Guiyang, according to Yang Yong, inspector of the Guizhou Education Department.
"Establishing the alliance is a major institutional innovation, which shows that research universities focusing on green development starts an all-around cooperation," said Yang Yong.
To deal with Guizhou's ecological civilization construction problems through integrating university resources and research power, Peking University will work with 12 world famous universities, including University of Notre Dame in the US and University of Berlin in Germany, to build the alliance at the education forum to be held during the Eco Forum.
Themed around "economical civilization's global vision of education", there are 52 guests attending the education forum, including presidents, experts and scholars from Peking University, Tsinghua University, University of Notre Dame, University of Berlin in Germany, Hebrew University in Israel, University of Melbourne in Australia, Kyoto University in Japan, and St. Petersburg University in Russia.
The forum will be held on the afternoon of July 11, 2:00pm-6:30pm, and the morning of July 12, 9:00am-12:30pm. During the forum, domestic and foreign universities will deliver speeches centering on building the international university alliance of ecological civilization and ecological civilization education with a global vision.
