The integration of industry and education is an important indicator of measuring the effectiveness of vocational education reform. On October 29, the establishment conference of the industry-Education Integration Community of the National Smart New Energy Vehicle Industry and the 2023 Forum on High-Quality Talent Training in Smart New Energy Vehicle Industry were held at Shanghai Nanhu Vocational and Technical College in Hongkou.
The Industry-Education Integration Community was jointly sponsored and established by SAIC Group, Tongji University, and Shanghai Nanhu Vocational and Technical College. It is committed to forming a community with a shared future for industry-wide and cross-regional industry-education integration, leveraging the community aggregation effect, reconstructing the industry-education integration ecology of the smart new energy vehicle industry, forming a new pattern of modern vocational education development that matches the industrial structure, and serving the high-quality development of the smart new energy vehicle industry.
It is also the first industry-education integration community of the smart new energy vehicle industry established in China under the policy background of implementing the "Opinions on Promoting the High-Quality Development of Modern Vocational Education" and the "Pilot Implementation Plan for National Industry-Education Integration". Lu Peiming, Executive Vice President of Tongji University, and Chen Xiaojie, Deputy District Governor, attended and unveiled the plaque for the community.
The community focuses on the smart new energy vehicle industry chain, leads its member units to carry out cooperation, and builds an industry-education integration service platform of national smart new energy vehicles and a science-education integration and innovation platform. At the meeting, the governing unit of the community was awarded a license.
An official of Shanghai Nanhu Vocational and Technical College said that the community would follow the principle of joint construction, joint management, shared achievements and shared responsibility. It would expand the new path of talent cultivation in the smart new energy vehicle industry that closely meets market demand, optimize the pre-employment talent cultivation and education chain that serves the talent demand of the smart new energy vehicle industry, build a continuous education improvement channel for in-service employees in the smart new energy vehicle industry, and strengthen the exploration of the modern apprenticeship and industry colleges with Chinese characteristics.
After the establishment of the community, a series of digital courses will be worked out through the joint development of curriculum teaching resources by schools and enterprises; it will build an industry-education integration training base for the smart new energy vehicle industry, establish a two-way flow system between "double qualified" teachers and enterprise engineers. Besides, industry and education will collaborate on technological breakthroughs and applied research projects, thus promoting the implementation, application, and demonstration of research results.
A high-quality talent training forum for the 2023 smart new energy vehicle industry was held before the meeting.