The first leg of John's European tour was England.

The United Kingdom is the country with the most top schools in Europe, especially the primary, junior and senior high school education is very good, so after John visited the queen, he directly made an appointment with Eton College and Harrow School...... Wait for the principal of the Nine Public Schools to meet and invite them to come to Staunton to establish a branch school.

For John's invitation, these prestigious schools were naturally willing, which would not only seize the education market, but also increase the school's popularity, and most importantly, John promised to lease the land to these schools at a low level.

After finishing the junior high school, John immediately invited a well-known British university.

Cambridge, Oxford, Imperial College London, Loughborough University, University of Manchester, these six universities have become the invitees.

There are many well-known universities in the UK, but John only invites universities with strong science and engineering majors.

Staten has 16 industrial clusters, as well as many scientific research centers and financial centers, so it needs a large number of top technical talents, and financial talents, as for writers, jurists, artists, philosophers, politicians do not need, Staten's development needs technology not art, and when can we eat enough to talk about spiritual pursuit.

Of course, in addition to inviting these universities, John has also reached several agreements with the British government to jointly develop high-speed trains, and the two countries have led the joint construction of graphene, semiconductors and electronic components, nanomaterials, and green energy in Staunton...... and several other R&D centers, and Rolls-Royce, General Motors, and Boeing will also establish joint R&D centers in Staunton.

After the invitation to the British school, John then went to France and invited four universities: École Centrale de Paris, École Polytechnique, University of Paris-Sud, and ParisTech Pont and Bridge University.

At the same time, it has also signed several contracts with the French government, including joint research and development of high-speed trains, biochemistry, quantum optics... and other aspects of the joint establishment of research centers.

After the trip to France, John went to Germany, where the industry was very advanced because he had a large number of excellent polytechnic universities, so Germany became the object of John's attention.

The Technical University of Munich, RWTH Aachen University, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Humboldt University, Frankfurt University of Finance and Management, Technical University of Braunschweig, Technical University Dresden, University of Goettingen and Technical University of Berlin – nine universities have been invited.

In addition, Germany's primary and junior high schools are also very good, so John also invited six primary and junior high schools, Waltburg Primary School, Sustherjeance Primary School, Susthhans Primary School, Barmen Elementary School, Lichtenberg Elementary School, and Robert Bosch High School.

John has also signed a series of cooperation with Germany, in addition to joint research and development of high-speed trains, will also establish joint research and development centers in communication networks, internal combustion engines, mechanical engineering, metallurgical engineering, electronic micro and nanotechnology, new materials and processes, intelligent vehicles and Internet of vehicles.

After finishing in Germany, Johan ended up going to Russia.

The Russian bigwig was overjoyed to learn that John had invited a Russian university to establish a branch in the United States, and it was a recognition to be able to stand with the top universities in the world.

In fact, although Russia's economy is not very good, it is a big country in education, the level of higher education is in the leading position in the world, and the engineering and technical fields such as aerospace and military industry are also world-class, so John invited a total of nine universities in Russia, Moscow State University, Royal St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg State University, Novosibirsk State University, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow State Bauman Technical University, Moscow Power Engineering Institute, Tomsk Polytechnic University, State Siberian Medical University.

At the same time, it has also signed several cooperation agreements with Russia, in addition to joint research and development of high-speed trains, in aerospace and biomedical ...... on cooperation.

John invited a total of 28 universities and 14 elementary and junior high schools.

It can be said that John's trip was full of gains, establishing a large talent pool for the future development of Staten, and also laying the foundation for Staten's industry to take off.

Of course, John also chose ten of the many universities in the United States to enter the university town of Stateton.

Princeton University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of Chicago, California Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins University, Northwestern University, Harvey Mudd College, Georgia Institute of Technology.

With the addition of these 10 U.S. universities, the University Town of Statenton will have 38 universities, the highest density of colleges among U.S. cities.

After choosing a university, John allocated 200 acres of land to each of the universities, which were leased to the universities as a city government for a nominal rent of one dollar a year.

As for each of the 14 elementary, junior and senior high schools, John allocated 50 acres of land and charged a nominal $1 a year in tuition.

The 14 elementary, middle, and high schools will certainly not be able to satisfy the Stanton-age students, so some excellent schools in the United States will be invited in the future, and each of these schools will also allocate 50 acres of land, but only 30 places will be available.

Other elementary, junior and senior high schools want to enter Staunton, and after a qualifications review, they can buy land to build a school, and the government will no longer support the land.

For these schools, John carved out a total of 39 square kilometers of land, which is a small figure compared to the total area of 1,300 square kilometers.

And John thinks that the 39 square kilometers of land are well spent, and these schools will train more than 40,000 talents of all kinds every year, as long as 4,000 people stay in Staunton.

These individuals will continue to inject fresh blood into all walks of life at Staten, maintain the company's innovation and vitality throughout the city.

Moreover, so many universities and companies are gathered in Stendon, which will give birth to hundreds of cooperative research institutes in the future, which will give birth to more enterprises, drive industrial upgrading, and allow Staunten to maintain a leading position in certain industries.

And these schools will bring more than 200,000 students and teachers to Staunton, who eat, wear, live and travel in Staunton, all of which will increase the local economy and government tax revenue.

So it's definitely a profit-making business.

In order to increase Staunton's influence in the academic world, John also decided to have the 38 universities set up a selection committee, and then set up a foundation with $400 million to establish a Staunton College Prize to be awarded to those who have made outstanding contributions to physics, chemistry, biology, literature, mathematics, computer science, architecture, physiology, or medicine.

The awards are awarded every four years, with a $400 prize and a platinum medal each.

Each nominee is recommended by previous Stanton Academy Prize winners, members of the prize jury, presidents of national writers' associations (literary prizes), Pritzker Prize winners (architecture prizes), and selected invited professors.

Then the selection committee will screen and review the candidates, and finally invite the top 200 university professors in the world (eight, one for each major) to vote for the selected candidates, and the winner with the highest number of votes will be the winner.

Since ancient times, peers have been like enemies, peers have voted for peers, and only those who have voted are fair.

There can only be one winner of each award, and if there are two votes of the same number, the prize will not be awarded and will be automatically invalidated.

Why do double yolk eggs automatically become invalid?

Because the Stinton Academy Award is only moved to the best person, if the two people have the same number of votes, it proves that neither of these two can beat the other, since they can't tell who is the best, then they will not be awarded.

But it is precisely because of the strict selection rules and the huge selection body, the Stateless College Award, which will become the most authoritative academic award in the world in the future, but also because it is voted by the top academic professors of 200 universities around the world, so people call it the "University College Award".

The four-year selection period has also become the largest event in the global academic community, when thousands of academic experts from all over the world will hold a three-day academic exchange conference at the Staten Maritime Art Center after the voting period to discuss the hottest and most cutting-edge academic issues of the moment.