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President from University of Bologna visited Tongji

President from University of Bologna visited Tongji

Write: Kanti [2011-05-20]

On the morning of October 13th, president Pei Gang met with Ivano Dionigi, president of University of Bologna, who was coming for Tongji Italy Film Week, with a group of delegation. In the meeting, two sides affirmed the achievement that the two universities made for the cultural exchange and cooperation recent years, looking forward to continuing to explore academic cooperation, and had in-depth consultation about the possibility of cooperation in the video art research between Tongji University and University of Bologna, decided the cooperation direction of student joint training and dual degree programmes in the College of Arts and Communications as well as in the School of Economics and Management for both universities students.

President from University of Bologna visited Tongji

In the afternoon, President Ivano Dionigi of University of Bologna and Vice-president Wang Li of the College of Arts and Communications presented at Bologna pavilion in the Shanghai Expo for an activity of interactive media application. The activity displayed an interactive case about make fresh pasta . Later, both of them experienced an experimental interactive system Tortellino X-PERIENCE developed by the University of Bologna. The designer Marco Roccetti explained his design inspiration and operate mode.
Ivano Dionigi said that the new media, interactive media and other art-related disciplines were the future trend, science and art were mutually reinforcing. The University of Bologna had been set up film, drama, music and other programmes which provided a platform for relevant cooperation with the College of Arts and Communications of Tongji. He was looking forward to more cultural exchange activities such as Tongji Italy Film Week in the future.