近日，国家留学基金管理委员会（以下简称国家留学基金委）发布《关于确定2020年创新型人才国际合作培养项目第一批资助项目的通知》，我院申报与法国西部农业大学合作举办的“功能食品工程与营养健康专业创新型人才国际合作培养项目”（首席科学家：陈晓东院士）成功获批，被确定为2020年创新型人才国际合作培养项目（以下简称创新项目），将获得国家留学基金委的经费资助。

项目依托红宝石官方网站相关专业和国外顶尖科研院所的优势资源，面向国家重大战略需求，汇聚了一批国际学术**和国内外研究骨干，旨在搭建具有引领示范作用的国际人才培养与合作交流平台。项目执行期为三年（2020-2022），选派类别包括攻读博士学位研究生、联合培养博士研究生和访问学者（含博士后），国家留学基金委将资助项目人员往返国际旅费和资助期限内的奖学金。

据悉，创新型人才国际合作培养项目由国家留学基金委设立，面向全国普通高等院校及科研机构实施。项目旨在更好地服务国家战略、教育领域综合改革以及一流大学和一流学科建设，培养更多创新型、紧缺型、复合型国际化人才，对国内相关专业的国际化发展起到引领示范作用。

化工学院着眼于国际化工科技前沿，以服务地方经济建设为导向，凝练学科特色，依托科技人才聚集和研发平台优势，重点面向食品化工、环境化工、仿生化工、材料化工及化工系统工程领域，积极开展科技创新及成果转化、高层次人才培养及国际化建设与合作，目标建设成为具有鲜明特色的国内一流，国际有重要影响力的化学工程与技术学科。

Recently,  China Scholarship Council (referred to as CSC) has announced the First Batch of  Funded Projects for International Cooperative Training Program for Innovative  Talents in 2020. The specific project for us is for innovative talents in  functional food engineering and nutrition health (It is headed by: Professor  Xiao Dong Chen). Our school and the Western Agricultural University of France are  the co-hosts. The project will be funded by CSC.

Relying  on the resources of relevant subject majors of Soochow University and of top  foreign scientific research institutes, the program gathers a group of  international known academics to meet the major strategic demands of the  country. It is aimed at building an international exchange platform with  leading and international expenses. The period of the  program is of three years (2020-2022). The personnel involved include postgraduates  studying for a doctoral degree, jointly supervised doctoral students and  visiting scholars (including postdoc researches). China Scholarship Council  will fund the round-trip international travel of program personnel and scholarships  within the funded period.

It  is reported that the international cooperative training program for innovative  talents is set up by CSC and is open to competitive applications from the  universities and research institutions across the country. The program aims to better  serve the national strategy, the comprehensive reform in the field of  education, and the construction of the first-class universities and the first-class  disciplines. The program will cultivate more innovative, greatly demanded and  interdisciplinary international talents. It will also play a leading and  exemplary role in the international development of related areas in China.

Focusing  on the fronts of international chemical engineering, our filed of research and education  serves the local economic development, relies on the advantages of scientific  and technological talents gathering and research and development platform, and actively  carries out scientific and technological innovation and achievement  transformation. The designed high-level talents training will serve in the  fields of food industry, chemical industry, processing chemical industry and  system engineering. It is aimed at build in a domestic first-class and  internationally reknowned platform of chemical engineering with unique  characteristics.