2017年10月28日至11月1日，由联合国教科文组织国际工程科技知识中心（IKCEST）和西安交通大学联合主办，IKCEST丝路培训基地承办的第18期丝路工程科技发展专项培训在西安交通大学兴庆校区举行，共有来自西安交通大学、西北工业大学、西安电子科技大学、长安大学、石油大学等的88名学生参加培训，他们分别来自巴基斯坦、埃塞俄比亚、安哥拉、苏丹、泰国、孟加拉等十多个“一带一路”国家。
The 18th IKCEST Training Programme for Silk Road Engineering Science and Technology Development themed on New Functional Materails was held in Xingqing Campus of Xi’an Jiaotong University from October 28th to November 1st. It was co-hosted by the International Knowledge Centre for Engineering Sciences and Technology (IKCEST) under the Auspices of UNESCO and Xi’an Jiaotong University, and organized by IKCEST Silk Road Training Base. A total of 88 students from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xidian University, Chang’an University, Xi’an Shiyou University registered for the workshop. They are from 11countries along the Silk Road including Pakistan, Ethiopia, Angola, Sudan, Thailand, Bangladesh, etc.
本次开班仪式由西安交通大学继续教育学院副院长陈灵院长主持，西安交通大学社会教育管理处巩稳定副处长参加开班仪式。
The opening ceremony was hosted by Chenling, Vice Dean of School of Distance Learning of Xi’an Jiaotong University. Gong Wending, Deputy Director of the Social Education Management Department of Xi’an Jiaotong University attended the ceremony.
开班仪式上，社会教育管理处处长巩稳定副处长介绍了国际工程科技知识中心丝路培训基地的情况，他希望同学们通过学习，了解新型功能材料的核心技术和在生活中的广泛应用，以及与各领域各行业技术融合的创新与变革，服务国家，促进丝路沿线国家友谊和合作。
On the opening ceremony, Gong Wending, Deputy Director of the Social Education Management Department of Xi’an Jiaotong University, introduced the IKCEST Silk Road Training Base. He hoped that the students could learn the core technologies and wide application of new functional materials as well as innovations and changes of technology integration in various fields so that they could serve the country better and promote the friendship and cooperation among the Silk Road countries.
随后，来自西安交通大学的留学生代表Mondy, Conty Evaristo Saeed发言，感谢西安交通大学领导和老师的辛勤付出，把握住难得的机会，承担新时期文化交流的使命。他曾多次参加不同主题的丝路科技发展专项培训，从中获得了很多创新的想法、科技工程等前沿知识、以及中国文化等，他祝愿丝路培训基地越办越好，让更多丝路沿线国家的留学生从中受益。
Later, Mondy, Conty Evaristo Saeed, a representative of the foreign students from Xi’an Jiaotong University, gave a speech. He expressed his thanks to the leaders and teachers from Xi’an Jiaotong University for their hard work. They seized the rare opportunity and assumed the mission of cultural exchange in the new era. He has participated in many training programmes on Silk Road technology development with different themes and has obtained many innovative ideas as well as cutting-edge knowledge such as science and technology engineering, and Chinese culture. He wished that the Silk Road Training Base will be better and better so that increasing foreign students from the silk-road countries could benefit from it.
本期的培训内容为“新型功能材料培训班”，内容涵盖自旋电子学：大数据时代的一种新型电子功能材料、先进陶瓷与复合材料、同步辐射微衍射技术在材料研究中的应用、核能与先进材料、有机电子材料、热喷涂技术及其应用、一带一路的历史与未来等。
This workshop focused on the topic of New Functional Materials. The workshop included lectures such as Spintronics: A New Type of Electronic Functional Materials in the Era of Big Data, Advanced Ceramics and Composite Materials, the Application of Synchrotron Micro-Diffraction Technology in Materials Research, Nuclear Energy and Advanced Materials, Organic Electronic Materials, Thermal Spraying Technology and Application, the History and Future of the Belt and Road.
另外，参观西安国际港务区，参观内容包括观看规划宣传片、西安铁路集装箱中心站、澜博国际购物中心等，使学员了解了西安国际港务区作为后期的实训基地所拥有的资源优势等。
In addition, the trainees visited Xi'an International Port Area. The visiting contents included watching the planning propaganda film, Xi'an Railway Container Center Station, Lanbo International Shopping Center, etc., so that the students can understand the resource advantages of Xi'an International Port Area as a later training base.
联合国教科文组织国际工程科技知识中心（简称“国际知识中心”“IKCEST”）是联合国教科文组织下属二类中心，2014年6月在北京成立，依托中国工程院建设，旨在面向世界各国尤其是发展中国家的政策制定者、广大工程科技工作者提供咨询、科研、教育等知识服务。2017年2月，国际知识中心依托西安交通大学，设立“IKCEST丝路培训基地”，为“一带一路”沿线国家培养工程科技人才。
The International Knowledge Centre for Engineering Sciences and Technology (shortened as “IKCEST”) is a category II centre under the auspices of UNESCO. IKCEST was established on June 2, 2014. The Chinese Academy of Engineering is responsible for the operation and management of the IKCEST. IKCEST aims at providing knowledge-based services at a global scale in the form of consultancies, scientific research and education for policy-makers and engineering science and technology professionals in the world, with particular reference to the developing countries. In February 2017, based in Xi'an Jiaotong University, IKCEST Silk Road Training Base was established, which aims to train more engineering and technological talents for Belt-Road countries.