The National Selection of the Second Innovation Methods Application Competition of the 2026 Belt and Road & BRICS Skills Development and Technology Innovation Competition was held from August 8 to 9, 2026. A team composed of Li Fan, Hu Jianguo, and Zhao Changcheng from the Engineering Practice Education Center of Tsinghua University won the First Prize in the Faculty Group (ranking first) and advanced to the finals with its project "Course Development and Application of Technological Innovation Methods" after material review and defense.

The BRICS Skills Development and Technology Innovation Competition is an international competition endorsed by the Preparatory Committee of the 2017 BRICS Leaders' Summit, approved by the relevant departments of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China, and authorized by the BRICS Business Council. The Belt and Road & BRICS International Alliance for Skills Development is the main organizing body. The competition aims to establish talent selection channels for BRICS countries, enhance talent cultivation capacity, serve the advanced manufacturing sector, and promote skills development among BRICS countries. To attract and encourage the promotion and application of innovation methods and TRIZ theory, the "Innovation Methods Application Competition" was established in 2024 as a special competition within the framework of the Belt and Road & BRICS Technology Innovation Competition, focusing on assessing the application level of TRIZ theory and the ability to solve practical problems.

In recent years, faculty and staff of the Center have actively participated in the study and teaching application of TRIZ theory. One faculty member has obtained the title of Level 3 Expert of the International TRIZ Association, and several faculty and staff members have obtained Level 1 certification from the International TRIZ Association. The award-winning project is based on the achievements of the Center in teaching application and university-industry cooperation based on TRIZ theory. Taking Tsinghua University’s high-quality general education course “Technological Innovation Methods and Practice” as an example, it introduces how to guide students to master the basic knowledge system of TRIZ theory in the era of artificial intelligence, cultivate engineering capabilities and engineering literacy, and enhance systematic thinking and technological innovation capabilities. The Center will take this competition as an opportunity to further encourage faculty to deeply integrate technological innovation with teaching practice, deepen the integration of industry and education and the convergence of science and education, and guide faculty and students to continuously improve their teaching innovation capabilities and translation level, so as to cultivate more high-quality talents with an innovative spirit in response to the Belt and Road Initiative and to serve the high-quality development of society.