ACAA attends historic Sino-Australian water-conservation conference in Henan Province
 
As part of the ACAA's  new partnership with the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), ACAA staffer Amanda Barry attended an historical conference in Henan in October, hosted by the Yellow River Conservancy Commission (YRCC) and with visiting speakers from the Murray Darling basin.
 
The two water catchments share similar challenges in the face of diminishing water resources and the conference provided a unique opportunity for experts to share their views.
 
After the formalities, Amanda spoke at an alumni reception for YRCC staff who have studied in Australia on AusAID fellowships, many of them at ACAA partner universities the University of South Australia and the University of Queensland. 
 
The conference was a great opportunity for ACAA to meet with this group of alumni and also further our engagement with provincial cities across China.

 

 

We thank the Australian Consul General to Shanghai, Mr Tom Connor for his generous hospitality. For more images of the event, please click here. 

Chinese University honours University of Newcastle professor Professor Graham Goodwin from the University of Newcastle, Australia was recently honoured as a Distinguished Professor by Zhengzhou University – Henan Province. Professor Goodwin said “Zhengzhou University is one of China’s most prestigious institutions. It has an established high quality teaching system and outstanding scientific research. The university consists of 43 schools and departments and 5 affiliated hospitals, covering 11 disciplines: science, technology, art, medicine, literature, history, philosophy, law, economics, management, agriculture and education. At present, the enrolled number of full-time students is over 36,000 with 6,639 graduate students and 342 international students. It is thus a great privilege to be appointed a Distinguished External Professor. The appointment was confirmed by Professor Shen Chang-yu (President of Zhengzhou University) during my recent visit to Zhengzhou on June 2, 2009. The appointment implies that the University of Newcastle will have closer cooperation with Chinese researchers in coming years.” Professor Goodwin is recognised as one the most influential engineering researchers in the world for his work on control engineering systems and signal processing. He is currently Laureate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Newcastle, Australia and is Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Complex Dynamic Systems and Control.

It's almost that time of year again...don't miss the ACAA Christmas parties!

Hello from ACAA!   September and October have been two more busy months for ACAA as we sifted through over 150 fantastic nomination submissions for our inaugural alumni awards.   In addition to all our regular events and activities, ACAA also helped to organise, and attended, several partner university functions held across China, including those for University of Queensland, Griffith University,University of Southern Queensland, and Queensland University of Technology. La Trobe will host alumni functions in Beijing and Shanghai in early November.   We're also delighted to welcome The University of Sydney as the ACAA's latest university partner. The University of Sydney joins ACAA as a silver partner, bringing our total number of partners to 20, including three Group of Eight universities.   Over the last two months ACAA has also started to step up its regional engagement, holding successful alumni events in regional cities including Kunming and Changsha. Alumni in regional cities who would like to organise their own local events should contact us - assistance and support are available.  September and October also saw a marked rise in the use of our jobs board, which is becoming a great place for our alumni employers and job seekers to find each other.   Also, see the ad at the end of this newsletter for a great offer from our Alumni Awards media partner, China International Business, for a free subscription to their magazine.    We hope to see some of you at an event soon!   Kind regards,   The ACAA team, Edward, Amanda, Sarah, Jason, Jessica and Rona.

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Australia China Youth Association seeks speakers
 
The Australia-China Youth Association (ACYA) is Australia's first student-run organisation aimed at providing an information resource for young Australian students interested in China, and young Chinese students interested in Australia.

ACYA is looking for employees of Australian companies to come and say a few words at China’s top university, Tsinghua University, this November. The audience will consist of China’s brightest young minds as well as exchange students from Australia.

We hope that your words will help them see that Australia is not only a great place to study in, but also that working in an Australian company at home or abroad is a wonderful environment and opportunity.

Anyone interested or with further questions please contact Eugene Joseph, ACYA China Representative.

ph: 150102235507
email: eugene.joseph@acya.org.au