The 104th IKCEST Training Programme for Silk Road Engineering, Science and Technology Development & Huazhong University of Science and Technology’s 1st Special Training Programme on “Silk Road Strategies” for International Students was held from Nov. 15th to 21st, 2021. It was co-hosted by the International Knowledge Centre for Engineering Sciences and Technology (IKCEST) under the Auspices of UNESCO, Xi’an Jiaotong University, and Huazhong University of Science and Technology and was organized by the IKCEST Silk Road Training Base. 66 trainees from 20 countries such as Pakistan, Nigeria, Nepal, Tanzania, Cambodia participated in this training programme. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this training programme is held online.
Themed on Machine Learning from Scratch, the following lectures are included: Ordinary Linear Regression, Linear Regression Extensions, Discriminative Classification, Generative Classification, Decision Trees, Tree Ensemble Methods, Neural Networks and etc. 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.
An online teacher-student meeting had been arranged to increase teacher-student interaction.
Up till recently, 104 sessions of IKCEST Training Programmes for Silk Road Engineering Science and Technology Development have been held by Silk Road Training Base, training more than 10,000 foreign students and staff from export-oriented Chinese companies from over 100 countries. This training programme plays an important role in cultivating talents and promoting the Belt and Road Initiative. In the Meanwhile, it also made important contributions to the promotion of cultural, scientific, technological and educational exchanges as well as the economic and social development of European, Asian and African Belt-road countries and regions.
The International Knowledge Centre for Engineering Sciences and Technology (IKCEST) is a category II centre under the auspices of UNESCO and was established in June 2014 in Beijing. Chinese Academy of Engineering is responsible for the operation and management of the IKCEST. IKCEST aims to provide knowledge-based services at a global scale in the form of consultancies, scientific research and education for policy-makers and engineering science and technology professionals in the world, with particular reference to the developing countries. In February 2017, based in Xi’an Jiaotong University, IKCEST Silk Road Training Base was established, aiming to train more engineering science and technology talents, and enhance the capacity building in developing countries.