PostTime：3/20/2023
Recently, Prof. David Gershoni, Vice Chancellor of Guangdong Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (GTIIT), received the first Guangdong Friendship Award, which is the highest award given by the Guangdong Provincial Government to foreign friends. He took this opportunity to share his experience in China and wishes to the future development of GTIIT.
At the awarding ceremony, Prof. David Gershoni delivered a speech as the representative of Guangdong Friendship Award winners. He pointed out that China and Israel cultures share the understanding that education and technology holds the key for a better future, and GTIIT is the gateway into the collective future. "I am honored to be part of this endeavor and I will do my best to promote the development of GTIIT," Prof. Gershoni said.
Research University Cultivates Innovative Talents
"I hope I'm worthy of this award, but I am sure GTIIT is worth of this award," Prof. Gershoni said, "more importantly, it is an sign that Guangdong Province appreciates the significance of this institute."
For more than 40 years, Prof. David Gershoni has been devoting to scientific research as a physicists and is dedicated to bring the innovation of Israel to GTIIT.
"We are here to build a research university that educates future scientists and engineers," Prof. Gershoni said, "Our faculty members are also researchers. This is what we have done in the Technion and GTIIT."
As the only Sino-Israel university focusing on science and technology in China, Prof. Gershoni stressed that GTIIT built the system of science, research and education. "The undergraduates are learning basic science here, and then they are giving the opportunity to use what they have learned to make research, to advance the research and to help the professor to become better researchers. That's the idea of research university. That is what we are trying to do here," he shared his philology of education, "we give them the right soil, irrigation, oxygen and light that they need."
Prof. David Gershoni has been the Vice Chancellor of GTIIT in 2021. Since then, the University has made great achievements in building faculty team, constructing discipline, cultivating talents and promoting innovation and entrepreneurship. The GTIIT graduates acquired a bright future and the proportion of graduates pursuing future study of research program has been increasing year by year. A growing number of GTIIT graduates have received PhD offers from top research universities such as Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley. GTIIT has been widely recognized of its research and talents.
Connect with China, Guangdong and GTIIT
Prof. Gershoni introduced that since 2005, he has been to China for different academic conferences and was amazed by China's fast development. "The quality of science does increase dramatically. The amount of scholars and leading scientists in China is continuously growing. Absolutely the investment in science is very impressive."
Witnessing the development of China in recent twenty years, Prof. Gershoni indicated several points that really impressed him, "Chinese are hard-working. We met so many talents here. Chinese attached great importance to education. It is also impressive when we see how fast china is being changed in it if you look around. That's more or less because of the hard-working talents, the appreciation of knowledge and education."
"Energy, Enthusiasm, Large" are the three words that Prof. Gershoni used to describe Guangdong Province. He indicated that Guangdong has all the ingredients to achieve success in science and technology including talents, financial resources and consciousness of the importance of innovation.
“China is a leading country and Guangdong is a large province with land and population ten times larger than Israel. If we blend together the Israeli spirit and know-how with the Chinese talents and hardworking, I believe that this give an opportunity to fantastic achievements. This is what I am doing here. And hopefully for now, we can use the resource of all the world and develop here rapidly as we originally designed,” Prof. Gershoni extended his hope and wishes to the future of GTIIT.
