On April 19, 2025, AMR successfully held the 44th Academic Salon. The salon invited Professor Andries Meijerink, Professor of University of Utrecht in the Netherlands and Academician of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, to deliver a lively and detailed keynote speech on Rare Earths for a Sustainable Earth. Representatives of faculty and students from the School of Energy and Materials heard the report.

After the academic salon, Vice President Bai Jianfeng, Director of the International Exchange Division Yao Li, President of the School of Energy and Materials Wang Yuanyuan, teacher representatives from Shanghai Second Polytechnic University, and a delegation from the Netherlands, including Professor Andries Meijerink and Dr. Yu Chen. The two sides held talks on the cooperation intentions in the future, and both sides agreed that in the future, more cooperation opportunities could be developed between China and the Netherlands in the field and direction of Professor Andries Meijerink's research. At the meeting, Dr. Elm Chen, as the representative of doctoral candidates of Dutch universities, also introduced the situation of Dutch scientific and technological talents and Sino-Dutch scientific and technological cooperation.