On June 23, 2017, Professor Zheng Qinghua, vice President of Xi 'an Jiaotong University, visited Xi’an International Trade and Logistics Park and exchanged the idea of making the Park as a Practicum Base for Belt and Road International Students from IKCEST Silk Road Training Base. They also discussed collaboration in internationalization of the people working at the Park.

The epicenter location, earthquake magnitude, depth of hypocenter and other seismic parameters after the earthquake had been released in IKCEST Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service System. More reliable results of automatic quick report are provided with regard to the majority of domestic and international seismic information.

The third edition of the World Reconstruction Conference (WRC3) took place in Brussels from June 6-8, 2017. Co-organized by the World Bank’s Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the European Union, the United Nations Development Programme and the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States, the conference sought to promote resilience through post-crisis recovery. WRC3 was held in conjunction with European Development Days 2017.

The 4th World Landslide Forum held in the Cankarjev dom – Cultural and Congress Centre in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from 29 May to 2 June 2017 under the honorary patronage of His Excellency Mr. Borut Pahor, President of the Republic of Slovenia. The forum has a total of five major themes and 19 chapters, and more than 600experts and scholarsattended the Forum.

The International Engineering Education Forum on Future-oriented Engineering Education and Engineering Capacity Building was held at the Reception Hall of Main Building, Tsinghua University. Guests exchanged their ideas surrounding “Opportunities and Challenges Facing Engineering Education in the Context of Globalization”, “New Reforms in Engineering Education”, “Engineering Education and Sustainable Development”, “Global Engineering Capacity Building”, “Theories and Practices for Cultivation of Engineering Talents”, among other issues. The Forum was graced by the presence of some 160 attendees (experts & scholars, managers, students & teachers) representing a wide range of backgrounds worldwide,

The “Training Program for Silk Road Engineering Science and Technology Development” organized by IKCEST offers its Workshop on the “Introduction to brain machine interface” on June 5th.

The ICEE was set up upon approval in the 38th Session of the UNESCO General Conference taking place in November 2015, following joint application by the CAE and Tsinghua University. The Governing Board & Advisory Board of the International Centre for Engineering Education (ICEE) under the auspices of UNESCO held the first meeting. The members of the ICEE Governing Board & Advisory Board, consisting of experts, scholars, and big names from fields in relation to engineering education, represent a wide range of backgrounds. The meeting deliberated on the Articles of Association, strategic planning, as well as other matters concerning the ICEE, and listened to the work report since its inception.

June.1st to June.3rd, the IKCEST Training Program for Silk Road Engineering Science and Technology Development was started in Xinjiang University, hosted by the International Knowledge Centre for Engineering Sciences and Technology (IKCEST) under the Auspices of UNESCO, undertaken by Xi'an Jiaotong University and Xinjiang University.