The Secretariat Office wishes to express its sincere appreciation to all our Alliance member universities and faculty for this year’s great joint research/publication project submissions. Two of our projects were tied in selection committee votes and we are excited to share our number of awarded projects was therefore increased from eight to ten. This number of ten projects is more than double last year’s number of four.

The Secretariat Office also wishes to especially thank this year’s selection committee which included Western Sydney University, University of Quebec at Montreal and Guangzhou University Professors Yi-Chen Lan, Francois Bedard, Xuan Tang, and Tian Zhihong.

Please join the Secretariat Office in congratulating the following ten projects selected for this year:

“Synergetic Collaboration on Identifying the Stability Bottlenecks of Organic Solar Cells as an Alternative Energy Source”

• Field of Alternative Energy

•  Linkoping University/Professor Fengling Zhang

“Collecting and Collections of Traditional Chinese Art in the Museums of Spain”

- Tourism/Smart Cities

-  University of Zaragoza/Professor Elena Baguena

“FoF – Factory of the Future”

- Field of Artificial Intelligence

- University of Coimbra/Professor Jorge Sa Silva

“Improving Energy Efficiency in the Utility Sector of the Economy on an Innovative Basis in the Context of Industry 4.0 and Green Economy”

- Alternative Energy

- National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic

Institute”/Professor Serhii Voitko

“Production Development of Eco-friendly Green Chemistry for Material Science”

- Field of Material Sciences

- Charles Darwin University/Professor David Young

“Innovative Business Strategies in Response to COVID-19’s Impact on Tourism: A Post COVID Tourism Resilience and Regeneration Framework”

- Field of Tourism/Smart Cities

- Western Sydney University/Professor Karisa Wardle

“Developing Economic Indicators for Universities as Part of Regional Ecosystems”

- Entrepreneurship/Advanced Financial Technology

- Durban University of Technology/Professor Sibusiso Moyo

“FAT – Fast AIchemical Transformations”

- Artificial Intelligence/Life Science

- University of Padua/Professor Denis Bastieri

“New Generation Machine Learning for Privacy and Security Applications”

-  Field of Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Technologies

- Tampere University/Professor Moncef Gabbouj

“Understanding Tourism Behavior Towards Smart Destinations During COVID-19”

- Field of Tourism/Smart Cities

- University of the West of England/Professor Vikas Kumar

Congratulations again to this year’s recipients.