The official opening of the Sino-European Institute for Clean and Renewable Energy “ICARE” was organized at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), on October 6th. October 6th was in fact quite a great day being also the day to celebrate the 60th anniversary of HUST. These two events made HUST campus alive has never before with plenty of officials, alumni’s, students and guests from abroad. To celebrate the anniversary, representatives of national institutions (LIU Liming, Vice-Minister for Education), of the district (LI Hongzhong, Party Secretary, and Governor WANG Guosheng) and the municipality (RUAN Chengfa, Party secretary, and TANG Liangzhi, Mayor of Wuhan) gave speeches to the 4000 people that gathered in the big sport hall for the ceremony. M. Romain Soubeyran, director of Mines ParisTech – was the only foreign representatives to be honor guest for the Anniversary ceremony.

During ICARE opening ceremony, Mr. Serge Lavroff (General Consul of France in Wuhan), Pr LI Peigen (President of HUST), M. LIU Baoli, (General Director of exchanges and international cooperation at the Chinese Ministry of Education), M. Johan CAUWENBERGH (Representative of the European Union), and M. Romain SOUBEYRAN (Director of Mines ParisTech) delivered speeches stressing ICARE important mission to educate top and multicultural engineers in the domain of clean and renewable energies. They all expressed their strong support to the institute, and stressed on the importance of ICARE for the university, for the Wuhan and Hubei province as well as for China. The key question of making this model sustainable beyond the European grant period, and thus the importance of building closed relations with Chinese and European companies, was also emphasize by all speakers.

Representatives of the French Embassy in Beijing (Mr. Norbert PALUCH, Counselor for Science and Technology), and of the French consulate general in Wuhan (Mme Isabelle DEDUN, Attaché for Academic Cooperation, and Marc BONDIOU, Attaché for Science and Technology) also attended the ceremony, along with Pr Didier Mayer, coordinator of ICARE project for Mines ParisTech, and the Chinese and the European deans of ICARE, Prof HUANG Shuhong and Prof Michel FARINE.

The press has a wide coverage because more than 30 medias were invited, which are CCTV, People's Daily, Guangming Daily, Economy Daily, China Daily, Xinhua Net, China News Agency, China National Radio, China Education Newspaper, Science and Technology Daily, China Science Daily, China Younth Daily, Hongkong Takungpao, Hongkong Wenweipo, Hubei daily, Chutian Metropoliss Daily, Chutian Golden Newspaper, Changjiang Daily, Wuhan Night, Wuhan Morning, Changjiangtimes, Hubei TV, Wuhan TV, Wuhan Education TV, Hubei Radio, Chutian Transport Radio, Wuhan Radio, Jingchu Net News, Dachu Net News, Dachu Net, Huazhong University of Science&Technology Weekly, Huazhong University of Science&Technology Online etc.