Worldwide Energy Universities Network (WEUN), a voluntary global organization of energy universities initiated by China University of Petroleum-Beijing (CUPB), declared its establishment on 22th September 2018. 28 energy universities form 16 countries, including China, USA, UK, Canada, Germany, France, Denmark, Brazil, Australia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, UAE, Vietnam and Malaysia signed the Declaration of Worldwide Energy Universities Network.
Under the background of globalization, CUPB initiated to establish WEUN in March 2018, to create a global education community in energy field, promote the communication and cooperation between universities from different countries and regions focusing on oil and gas and impel social and economic development. It proposed to share resources and achieve multilateral benefit within WEUN to collaboratively enhance the development of researches and talent cultivation in energy field. WEUN would contribute to the construction of “community of shared future” by promoting the exchanges in academic, economic and cultural aspects.
CUPB, a research university with distinctive characteristic in petroleum, firmly implements international strategy under which the cooperation scale has been constantly expended. The partners include more than 170 universities and enterprises from developed countries such as the USA, France, UK, Canada and Japan. As a result, the university made a profound foundation for the establishment of WEUN.
On the first plenary session of WEUN, the members discussed the Constitution of WEUN and voted the units of Executive Committee, headquarters setting, logo proposal and other events. Subsequently, the nameplate of WEUN was unveiled by Shan Honghong, the Chancellor of CUPB, Zhang Laibin, the President of CUPB, Martynov Victor, the Rector of Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas and Matthias Ruth, the Vice-president of University of Alberta together.
WEUN is an unofficial global network of energy universities. It will promote the communication and systematical cooperation of scientific research, education, talent cultivation and social activities between the members. It will conduct more concrete collaboration for students and teachers and help the members to produce high-grade talents for energy industry and improve the international competence.
The list of WEUN members:
Country
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University
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Australia
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Curtin University
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Azerbaijan |
Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University
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Baku Higher Oil School
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Brazil
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Federal University of Rio De Janeiro
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Canada
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University of Alberta
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University of Calgary
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China
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China University of Mining and Technology
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China University of Petroleum -Beijing
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China University of Petroleum(East China)
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North China Electric Power University
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Xiamen University
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Denmark
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Technical University of Denmark
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France
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UniLaSalle
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Germany
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University of Rostock
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Kazakhstan |
Kazakh-British Technical University
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Malaysia |
Universiti Teknologi Petronas
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Russia
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Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas
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South Ural State University
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Ufa State Petroleum Technological University
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Turkmenistan |
International University of Oil and Gas of Turkmenistan
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UAE
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Khalifa University
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UK
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University of Aberdeen
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University of Birmingham
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University of Dundee
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Heriot-Watt University
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USA
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University of Alaska, Fairbanks
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University of Utah
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Vietnam
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Hanoi University of Mining and Geology
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Note: Listed alphabetically by country and university name