Macao Polytechnic University held the opening ceremony of the 2023/2024 academic year on 21 August 2023 to launch a new study journey with 2,200 new students from Macao, the Greater Bay Area, all over the country, as well as Portuguese-speaking countries, and regions overseas. Flag-raising was held and the national anthem were sung at the opening ceremony. Rector Im Sio Kei expressed his wishes to the freshmen to inherit the spirit of love for the motherland and for Macao, to be the pioneers of the new era, and to contribute wisdom and strength to the development of the country and Macao.
Macao Polytechnic University and Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GUFS) have collaboratively launched the dual BA-BSc degree programme in Translation and Computer Science. This programme aims to nurture interdisciplinary innovative talents for the new era. The opening ceremony was held on 5 September welcoming the first cohort of 95 students.
Macao Polytechnic University and the Association of Macao Tourist Agents officially launched their joint project on “Education + Tourism” on 19 June. The goal of this project is to combine educational services with the tourism industry to meet the international and national-level examination and certification demands of Southeast Asia and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area in support of the Macao Examination and Certification Centre at MPU.
At the 2023 Times Higher Education (THE) Awards Asia, Macao Polytechnic University was shortlisted amongst the top eight in the category of “Excellence and Innovation in the Arts” for the project “Sensory Ethnography in Arts Programme: A Journey of Experimenters in Promoting Cultural and Creative Arts through Media Technology”. Completed by a team from the Faculty of Arts and Design at MPU, this project seamlessly incorporates sensory ethnography into art education. It operates as an interdisciplinary learning platform that fosters the uniqueness and innovativeness of art education in Macao, a place where Chinese culture is predominant and yet coexists harmoniously with a multitude of other cultures.
MPU students excelled at the “2022-2023 Macao University Sports Championship Awards Ceremony”, winning 13 gold, 15 silver, and 20 bronze medals in individual and doubles competitions as well as 4 gold, 6 silver, and 1 bronze medal in team competitions, for a total of 59 medals.
The new academic building being constructed on the Macao campus of Macao Polytechnic University has reached structural completion, with a ceremony held in August to mark this milestone. With its next stage being the interior decoration and installations, the building is expected to be in use in the second half of 2024.