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Preface

2020 is destined to be an extraordinary year. The international implementation of the new MPI Charter, the Council officially started operation; master's and
community is faced with severe challenges as the COVID-19 doctoral programmes were offered, and a cultivating model for undergraduate, postgraduate and
pandemic touches nearly every corner of the world. In Macao, with doctoral talent was built; the "International Portuguese Training Centre for Conference Interpreting"
the concerted efforts of the SAR Government, all sectors of society, and the "Greater Bay Area Portuguese Language Education Alliance" were established to provide a
and all citizens, good results have been achieved in fighting the bridge for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area as well as other parts of mainland
pandemic. Macao Polytechnic Institute (MPI) actively cooperates China to cooperate with Portuguese-speaking countries, giving full play to Macao's role as a
with the SAR Government in responding to the pandemic. It adopts cooperation platform between China and Portuguese-speaking countries; the opening of the Taipa
pandemic prevention and control measures including pandemic campus and the Chun Su Mei campus further optimised the educational resources for academic
prevention and control publicity, pandemic prevention and control as degree programmes and continuing education.
well as health and safety management, plus online teaching, student
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management and tutoring to ensure the quality of teaching and In 2021, MPI will celebrate its 40 anniversary. With "taking root in Macao, being backed by the
learning during the pandemic. motherland, facing the world and striving for excellence" as its philosophy, as well as "Knowledge,
Expertise and Global Vision" as its motto, MPI insists on carrying forward the spirit of "loving the
In Academic Year 2019/2020, MPI actively promoted the motherland and loving Macao". It has been thriving thanks to the joint efforts of MPI students and
development of scientific and technological innovation. It organised alumni, and has thus been able to make greater contributions to Macao and the motherland.
interdisciplinary collaboration, cross-field cooperation, and cross- I cherish the hope that all MPI students and alumni will work together and make pioneering efforts
regional synergy relying on the newly established engineering to write a new chapter in the higher education in Macao!
research centre of the Ministry of Education, the first of its kind in
Hong Kong and Macao, to strengthen cooperation with enterprises
and social organisations, and to promote the development
of industry-university-research integration. In response to the

President, Professor Im Sio Kei, Marcus
December 2020

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