Located in Addis Ababa, where the headquarters of the African Union (AU) is located, the Ethiopia Luban Workshop was jointly built by Tianjin University of Technology and Education and the Ethiopian Technical University, and was inaugurated on April 28, 2021.

An exterior view of Ethiopia Luban Workshop [Photo provided to tianjin.chinadaily.com.cn/lubannews]

Zhao Zhiyuan, Ambassador of Chinese Embassy to Ethiopia, Getachew Negash, general director of TVET Agency of Ethiopia, and Teshale Berecha, president of Ethiopian Technical University jointly virtually unveil the Ethiopia Luban Workshop on April 28, 2021. More than 100 representatives from all walks of life in Ethiopia attend the ceremony. [Photo provided to tianjin.chinadaily.com.cn/lubannews]

Luban Workshop International Development Research Center is inaugurated in Tianjin University of Technology and Education, which contributes to cultivating high-level vocational teachers and high-end technical talents in Ethiopia Luban Workshop on December 29, 2021. [Photo provided to tianjin.chinadaily.com.cn/lubannews]

Ethiopia Luban Workshop signs the Strategic Cooperation Agreement with East Africa Skills for Transformation and Regional Integration Project (EASTRIP) Center of Excellence to train high-level vocational teachers for East African countries in April, 2022. [Photo provided to tianjin.chinadaily.com.cn/lubannews]

The two cooperative institutions jointly hold and executed the China-Africa (Ethiopia) Friendship Competition on Industrial Robot Technology Application for University Students on 4 June, 2022. This facilitated the China-Africa technical skills exchange and cultivated high-level technical talents based on the platform of the high-end professional equipment and Cloud Classroom facilities of the Ethiopia Luban Workshop. [Photo provided to tianjin.chinadaily.com.cn/lubannews]

The workshop has been set up at the AU headquarters as a technical and skilled personnel train­ing center for African countries. It offers academic education and technical skills training connected with the three majors of Manufacturing Technology, Electronics and Communication Technology, Electrical and Control Technology for the cooperative institution in the field of artifi­cial intelligence. The workshop implements the "China-Africa Universities 20 plus 20 Cooperation Project" of the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, and the East Africa Skills for Transformation and Regional Integration Project (EASTRIP) of the World Bank to train vocational teachers for East African countries.

The Ethiopia Luban Workshop implement Industrial Control System training for local teachers in April, 2022. The workshop has provided more than 2,400 class hours of the EPIP standardized progressive training for five batches of local teachers and students in the first year of operation. [Photo provided to tianjin.chinadaily.com.cn/lubannews]

Teshome Toga, ambassador of Ethiopia  to China, Zhang Jingang, chairman of the University Council of Tianjin University of Technology and Education, and Lyu Jingquan, vice-president of TUTE take a group photo with the backbone teachers of Ethiopia Luban Workshop in April, 2021. [Photo provided to tianjin.chinadaily.com.cn/lubannews]

Ethiopia Luban Workshop embeds professional education activities into the undergraduate and graduate education system of the partner institution, and improves the professional teaching ability of Ethiopian teachers through the EPIP standardized progressive training of backbone teachers. [Photo provided to tianjin.chinadaily.com.cn/lubannews]

The partner institutions of China and Ethiopia cooperate in teaching and scientific research, supported by the EASTRIP Center of Excellence, Luban Workshop International Development Research Center, Ethiopian EPIP Research Center, Scientific and Technological Achievements Transformation Center, Center for African Union Studies and World Skills Competition China (Tianjin) Research Center. Ethiopia Luban Workshop creates a China-Africa model for producing and training of high-level vocational teachers for the East Afri­can countries.