The 78th IKCEST Training Programme for Silk Road Engineering Science and Technology Development was held online from September15th to September 30th, 2020. It was co-hosted by the International Knowledge Centre for Engineering Sciences and Technology (shortened as “IKCEST”) under the Auspices of UNESCO, Xi’an Jiaotong University, and was organized by IKCEST Silk Road Training Base. 88 students from 22 belt-road countries such as Pakistan, Rwanda and Yemen participated in this training programme.

The theme of the training programme is Concise Circuits. There are six parts:  fundamentals of circuits, dynamic circuits, AC circuits, general analysis techniques for circuits, extensions of circuit knowledge, applications of circuit knowledge. Going from easy to difficult, the courses are characterized with clear logic which enables the trainees to systematically grasp the concepts and analysis methods of circuits.

A combined approach of video-on-demand (shortened as VOD) study, online discussion and after-class practicing were employed in the online training. The students freely arranged the learning schedule to complete online learning tasks, and had active discussion during the training.

Up till recently, 78 sessions of IKCEST Training Programmes for Silk Road Engineering Science and Technology Development have been held by Silk Road Training Base, training more than 8,000 participant from over 115 countries. This training programme, as an important work of IKCEST Silk Road Training Base, will play important role in training more talents for the Belt-road countries and better serving to the development of the Belt and Road Initiative. It also made important contributions to the economic and social development of European, Asian and African Belt-road countries and regions.