Since the COVID-19 outbreak, based on the premise that health and safety are guaranteed, Macau University of Science and Technology has been mobilizing the entire university to consolidate and contribute forces and efforts to ensure the orderly, continuous and steadfast development of various work at the University, initiate deployment and planning for the development of the University proactively, ensure the unhindered advancement of the University, and aim at withdrawing no efforts in prevention and control of the epidemic and in sustainment of teaching and research.
Since the COVID-19 outbreak, based on the premise that health and safety are guaranteed, Macau University of Science and Technology has been mobilizing the entire university to consolidate and contribute forces and efforts to ensure the orderly, continuous and steadfast development of various work at the University, initiate deployment and planning for the development of the University proactively, ensure the unhindered advancement of the University, and aim at withdrawing no efforts in prevention and control of the epidemic and in sustainment of teaching and research.Recently, in response to the national “Belt & Road” initiative, in alignment with the advancement and implementation of the Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, M.U.S.T. repositioned itself accurately in an effort to capture the opportunities afforded by the time, and set up 7 new laboratories and research centers related to the Internet, artificial intelligence, research and development of innovative Chinese medicine, humanities and social sciences, and other areas.
The newly established research platforms comprise the Macao Technology Innovation Centre for Next Generation Internet, Macao Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence and Systems Engineering, Macao Innovation Centre for Innovative Chinese Medicine and Industrialization Technologies, Macao Innovation Centre for Robotics Technologies, Macao Mathematical Sciences Research Centre, Macao Centre for Latin American Studies, and Research Centre for Macao History, Chinese Academy of History
It is hoped that the establishment of these advanced technology platforms would consolidate the foundation of science and technology, resorting on scientific and technological advantages, contributing to a reserve of talents and intellectual resources, inject new impetuses into and provide powerful intellectual support for the sustainable development of the nation and the Greater Bay Area.
What’s more, to stand in better line with the development of the University, the former School of Continuing Studies of M.U.S.T. has now been renamed as the School of Liberal Arts, effective from March 11, 2020. The School of Liberal Arts will continue to offer bachelor degree programs taught during evenings and weekends, and will also strive to offer more diverse degree programs and non-degree training courses in the future. The School now offers two new bachelor programs in business and hospitality services management, and will start to admit daytime full-time students.
