During late August 2016, as the representative of ILEE, Executive Director, Tony Yang, visited National Taiwan University and National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering (NCREE), to present ILEE research facilities and discuss the future collaboration opportunity with two centers. Prof. K.C Chang, director of NCREE, warmly wecomed Prof. Tony Yang and introduced the facilities and campus in details.

On August 30rd, 2016, Prof. Tony Yang, signed the Memorandum of Understanding with National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering (NCREE) with Prof. K.C Chang, as the representative of NCREE. Later, Prof. Xianglin Gu, Vice President of Tongji University, approved this MOU. Two centers are excited and will cooperate firmly with this multi-year international collaboration and student exchanges.