The Chairman’s Award was presented to the University of Coimbra by Alliance Chair and Guangzhou University President Professor Wei Minghai during the 2023 Alliance Annual Meeting.

The University of Combra was recognized for their outstanding contributions which have included their work on four joint research and publication projects, offering four Digital Academy programs, winning Gold and Silver award student teams (SAFE-Pack and Rene Waste) in the 2022 Urban Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, their Center for Social Studies organizing the 2022 international symposium “Creative Tourism, Regenerative Development and Destination Resilience” and today’s new project proposal for the creation of an International Language and Cultural Committee.University of Coimbra Vice Rector, Professor Joao Nuno Calvao da Silva accepted the award on behalf of the University of Coimbra.