The Interdisciplinary Development and Evaluation Forum was held from October 20th to 21th at Purple Bamboo Hotel in Beijing.
More than 200 researchers and relevant leaders from Chinese Society of Educational Development Strategy (CSEDS), China Society for Scientific and Technical Information (CSSTI), Evaluation Commission of the Chinese Academic Degrees and Graduate Education Society (CSADGE-EC) and universities and institutes attended the forum.
The opening ceremony of the forum was presided over by Zhou Guangli, Dean of the School of Education of Renmin University of China (RUC). Wang Yi, Vice President of RUC, Dai Guoqiang, Chairman of the China Society for Scientific and Technical Information and Wu Xiaoqiu, President of Research Institute of Capital Market, delivered keynote speeches on the forum.
On behalf of RUC, Wang Yi welcomed the present guests and delegates. She pointed out that the essence, the driving force and the strategic opportunity of interdisciplinary construction is knowledge integration, innovative talent training and the digital age. She hoped that all experts and scholars would carry out full exchanges on interdisciplinary issues and propose plans to build a new pattern of interdisciplinary construction with Chinese characteristics.
Dai Guoqiang emphasized in his speech that there are still constraints in interdisciplinary development. In this respect, Artificial Intelligence could help break barriers by data integration, identify potential research topics by natural language processing and solve complex interdisciplinary issues by providing possible solutions.
Wu Xiaoqiu congratulated the convening of the forum. He said that cross-disciplines will become new disciplines, thus it is necessary to research the subject disciplines and basic theories. The research should also be adapted to the changes in research methods and underlying logic of digitalization.
Then, Lin Zhonglin, distinguished professor of Macao University of Science and Technology, Lin Meng quan, Deputy Director of CSADGE-EC, Yu Xianghong, Chair of the Frontier Interdisciplinary Studies of Wuhan University, and Suo Chuanjun, outstanding scholar of RUC, delivered keynote speeches and proposed the future research direction for Chinese interdisciplinary development.
On the afternoon of October 21th, researchers and leaders from different universities and institutes further discussed relevant issues on three separate sub-forums.
The first sub-forum was presided over by Professor Niu Li, Deputy Dean of the School of Information Resource Management of RUC. Experts and scholars from Zhejiang University, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Zhejiang Sci-tech University, Fudan University and University of Science and Technology of China, put forward their views on how to innovate the mechanism and the philosophical basis of interdisciplinary organization, how to improve interdisciplinary management and how to promote the evaluation of interdisciplinary results and process.
The second sub-forum was presided over by Zhang Xiaojing, Chair of the School of International Studies of RUC. Experts and scholars from Hebei University of Environmental Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Shanghai Academy of Educational Sciences, Wuhan University, Beijing Normal University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and RUC, put forward their suggestions and opinions on the current situation of interdisciplinary construction in China, how to reform teaching methods, how to learn from foreign experience, and how to use new science and technologies.
The third sub-forum was presided over by Jia Junxue, Director of Strategic Planning Office of RUC. Experts and scholars from Peking University, China Agricultural University, Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, RUC, and China National Knowledge Instructure (CNKI), shared their practical interdisciplinary experience.
After the sub-forums, Suo Chuanjun host the face-to-face session. The experts and scholars exchanged opinions and discussed the relevant issues together.
This forum is jointly organized by the Office of Discipline Planning and Construction, School of Information Resource Management, School of Education and Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies of RUC.
