On August, 17, 2017, the Graduation Ceremony of the 2nd BASF Class (the new round of BASF, BBZ and SPA training project) & the Opening Ceremony of the 3rd and 4th BASF Classes & the Closing Ceremony of BASF Employees Summer Camp were held in the meeting room of the new Chemical Engineering Training Building of SPA. Jens Christian Bechtold, vice president, Human Resources Greater China, Dr. Li Yang, vice president, Operation & Site Management BASF Pudong Site & Cao Jing Site, Pu Jianping, head of Human Resources, Operation & Engineering, Joint Venture Support Human Resources Greater China, Shen Weilin, vice director, Operations, Gao Ju, principal of SPA, Lin Guoxin, Party secretary of SPA, Huang Hanjun, vice principal of SPA, other leaders of SPA, together with teachers and students of BASF Class and trainees of BASF Summer Camp, attended the ceremonies.
Since 2003, SPA and BASF have conducted school-enterprise cooperation. Up to now, SPA has cultivated nearly 160 excellent graduates for BASF. In 2015, SPA set up the first one-year BASF Class, which was targeted to take the BBZ assessment and to collaboratively cultivate high-quality technical personnel for chemical front line with international standards. In 2012, based on the blueprint of the federal vocational education statute about chemical operator, which was enacted in Germany in 2009, SPA introduced original German textbooks & teaching materials and cooperated with BBZ in developing eight professional core subjects and four optional courses with international first-class standards suited to SPA's situations.
So far, the students who graduated from BASF Class in 2013 have become the regular employees of BASF and the students who will graduate in 2018 are having internship in BASF currently. Their occupational ethics, vocational skills and team cooperation spirit are endorsed by the enterprise. Some students have stood out among the new employees so they have won quick development and promotion vocationally. Gao Ju recalled the fruitful cooperation history of SPA and BASF in his speech. He sang highly of the deep cooperation of both sides, whether in pre-service or post-service training, both sides have tried to optimize the joint cultivation of talents and explore suitable teaching and educational methods. Meanwhile, Gao Ju expressed his expectations for the two BASF Classes of the new round. He hoped that BASF students will study hard and learn more skills to meet the requirements of qualified BASF employees as soon as possible.
Jens Christian Bechtold, vice president, Human Resources Greater China, expressed his happiness in his speech because they have witnessed the establishment of three BASF Classes. Today, the 2nd summer camp concluded. He said that safety and efficiency is the base of operation of the enterprise. In order to achieve the goal, BASF Class and summer camp are efficient methods for the enterprise. In the future, BASF will strengthen cooperation with SPA, support each other, achieve mutual development by means of jointly setting up courses and exchanging faculty, etc.
The leaders and guests who attended the ceremonies presented BBZ Training Certificates to the students of the 2nd BASF Class and they also presented enterprise souvenirs to the students of the 3rd and 4th BASF Classes. Lu Yanyan, class teacher, and Sun Xinyu, student representative, gave speeches in Chinese and in English on behalf of teaching and learning respectively, expressing their sincere expectations and promises for the future life and study. Lu Qun, trainee representative of the summer camp, also made a speech. He said that through the 3 weeks' training, they have reinforced theoretical knowledge, broadened working ideas and they will apply what have been learned to their jobs.
Accelerating industry-education integration and strengthening school-enterprise cooperation is not only the general trend of economic development but also the only way of improving the quality of talent cultivation under the background of transformative development. The 3rd and the 4th BASF Classes have turned a new chapter for school-enterprise cooperation, so school-enterprise cooperation is always going on. We believe, in the near future, SPA will have more fruitful outcomes in course teaching with international standards and modern apprenticeship talent cultivation.