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Sino-German Symposium on Compliant Mechanisms

One of the highlights of 2020 was the Sino-German Sym- event, which was held across time zones, the participants
posium on Compliant Mechanisms, which was organ- had the opportunity to present their current research
ised by ILK from 10 – 12 November together with the and discuss it with renowned experts from Germany and
Chinesisch-Deutschen Hochschulkolleg (CDHK) of Tongji China. The participants included representatives from TU
University Shanghai with the participation of numerous Dresden, TU Chemnitz, RWTH Aachen, TU Ilmenau and
German and Chinese university partners. The symposium Hochschule Mittelhessen on the German side and from
was funded by the German-Chinese Centre for the Pro- numerous research institutions on the Chinese side, in-
motion of Science (CDZ), which is a joint venture of the cluding Tongji University, Tianjin University, Jiao Tong Uni-
German Research Foundation (DFG) and the National versity and the Beijing Institute of Technology. Afterwards,
Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) that focuses, the event was considered a complete success by all par-
among other things, on scientific cooperation in the en- ticipants and the experience gained from it will be used
gineering sciences. The original plan to hold the sympo- to shape future cooperation activities.
sium in May 2020 at Tongji University was thwarted by
the Corona pandemic, so the project leaders Prof. Niels
Modler and Prof. Song Lin decided to move the sympo-
sium to November and to organise it digitally. In the virtual

Together with IIT Delhi against environmental pollution

Within the framework of the joint call for proposals "Indo-
German Partnerships in Higher Education (IGP)" of the
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the In-
dian University Grants Commission (UGC), the project
"Combating Environmental Pollution through Internatio-
nalisation of Education (COMPOLL)" was launched, which
the ILK is implementing together with the Institute of
Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi). The IIT Delhi and the TU Dres-
den have been working together for many years in vari-
ous scientific disciplines such as mechanical engineering,
rotordynamics, tribology or computer science in order to
ensure resource efficiency of products, processes, sustai-
nable systems and materials. A strategic cooperation to
combat pollution and reduce the human footprint requi-
res overarching cooperation between main environment-
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