To commemorate the 40^th anniversary of China-EU diplomatic relations and strengthen China-EU dialogue and exchange, the European Commission has sponsored a series of open lectures in China since 2015. On September 27, 2016, Laurent Bochereau, Minister Counsellor, Delegation of the European Union to China, and Manfred Horvat, a professor at University of Technology Vienna, pad a visit to CASTED and gave a lecture on innovation. They were received by Lin Xin, secretary of the CPC Committee of CASTED.

During the lecture on science, technology and innovation, Laurent Bochereau briefly introduced collaboration results of EU-China funding program for research collaboration, and then Prof. Manfred Horvat expounded on the history of EU-China innovation cooperation from the perspectives of innovation concept, innovation culture, innovation model and innovation policy and shared his optimistic outlook on EU-China innovation cooperation. After the lecture, the two experts had animated discussions with the audience.

The lecture was also attended by Wu Yishan, Vice President of CASTED, Li Zhe, Director of CASTED Institute of Science and Technology Systems and Management, and some research fellows at CASTED.