The 2021 edition of the CILAM Summer School on advanced manufacturing concludes

The CI-LAM Summer School is an annual training programme on advanced manufacturing organised by the China-Italy Laboratory on Advanced Manufacturing (CI-LAM), the bilateral platform on advanced manufacturing launched in 2017 and promoted by the MIUR and the Chinese Ministry for S&T (MOST).

The promoters of CI-LAM on the Italian side are the University of Naples Federico II, the University of Bergamo and SPICI, and on the Chinese side (Tsinghua University, the China Sci-Tech Automation Alliance, the university incubator TusPark and the Hangxing China-Italy Innovation Incubator).

On 13 October, the Closing Ceremony of the CI-LAM Summer School 2021 took place online in Italy and China, during which participation certificates were awarded to students and the results of the 2021 edition of the programme were presented by the partners.

This year, 59 students were involved from 24 different universities in Italy, China, Norway, and the United States. More than 24 hours of lectures organised in 8 different online meetings took place from 13 July to 6 August. In total, the courses were divided into 8 topics conducted by 8 professors from the leading universities in Italy and China. The topics are:

• New Material for 3D Printing: Prototyping and Production

• Digital Twin and its Industrial Applications

• Energy Management for Energy Internet

• IOT for 4.0 Industrial Revolutions

• Smart Robotics

• Open and Distributed Automation System

• Novel Power Semiconductor Devices

• Equipment and DC Grids

• Machine Learning in Advanced Manufacturing

During each lecture, a matchmaking session took place between 26 Italian and Chinese Research Groups on the topics, aimed at creating new opportunities and Italy-China bilateral research collaborations.

Furthermore, during the closing ceremony, the academic partners of CI-LAM (Prof. Fabio Villone - Vice Director of DIETI, University of Naples Federico II, Prof. Zhu Guiping, Vice Director of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University & Prof. Sergio Cavalieri, Vice Rector for Technology Transfer, Innovation and Research Valorisation, University of Bergamo, spoke in the institutional part, thanking the students and lecturers who participated.

The results of the CI-LAM Summer School 2021 were presented by Prof. Giovanni Breglio (Delegate for China of DIETI, University of Naples Federico II) and following this, the awarding ceremony of participation diplomas was announced by Prof. Zhu Guiping and Prof. Sergio Cavalieri.

Thanks to the work carried out in 2020, CI-LAM was mentioned as a bilateral platform on advanced manufacturing and Smart Factory topics in the “Action Plan towards 2025 between Italy and China on scientific and technological cooperation” drafted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.