Preamble
The University Paderborn and the Qingdao University of Science and Technology [QUST] are looking back to a close relationship which last more than 20 years. Based on these fruitful results, it is now possible to enter a new stage for future collaborations. In this new phase of intense collaborations the main focus will be set on Applied Research & Teaching; it is planned to involve further Universities. With that said the sino-german campus “Chinesisch-Deutscher Campus” [CDC] was founded in March 2017 and will be transferred into a sino-german technical university “Chinesisch-Deutsche Technische Universität” [CDTU]; both institutions will be constructed in Qingdao.

The University Paderborn and Qingdao University of Science and Technology have a close relationship for more than 20 years which generated productive cooperation results for the faculty of Science & faculty of Cultural Science in the frame of the Chinesisch-Deutsche Technische Fakultät [CDTU]. Chinese and german students are profiting from a big range of studies, student exchange programs, etc. in the faculties of Machine Engineering & Chemistry and as well in the faculty of Culturel Science with german as a foreign language.

The establishment of the Chinesisch-Deutscher Campus [CDC] is a strategic decision to further intensify and extend the contact with Chinese Universities in order to promote international cooperations to the top scientific level.

• Establishment of various study program; currently one material science study course „Bachelor Material Science" (accreditation in progress)
• Teaching content & methods based on the german education system for universities
• Joint interdisciplinary research between universities
• Industry cooperations