The winners of the 7th MAD Travel Grant in 2017 were announced today. From more than 500 applications worldwide, a total of 10 domestic and foreign students received MAD Travel Grant funding this year.

Domestic Student (Overseas Travel) Winner:
Li Qiwei, fourth-year undergraduate student at Beijing University of Civil Engineering. Destination: Russia, Ukraine and other former Soviet countries

Wen Zishen, second-year graduate student at Tsinghua University. Destination: Germany, Austria, Italy, etc.

Wu You, first-year graduate student at Princeton University. Destination: France

Yi Zhe, first-year graduate student at Yale University. Destination: Japan

Wei Tangchenxi, second-year graduate student at Southeast University. Destination: Netherlands

Student Abroad (Travel to China) Winner:

Roberto Vargas Calvo, Costa Rica, 5th year undergraduate student at Veritas University of Costa Rica.

Kyriaki Goti, Greece, is a second-year graduate student at the University of Stuttgart, Germany.

Hossein Goudarzi, Iran, is a first-year graduate student at the University of New Mexico, USA.

Federico Fauli, from Italy, is a second-year graduate student at the AA School of Architecture in the UK.

Shaun McCallum, Scotland, is a first year graduate student at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria.

In 2009, Ma Yansong initiated the MAD Travel Fund. In the past seven MAD Travel Funds, a total of 35 college students in China have received MAD Travel Fund funding, embarked on a journey with their own research topics, and shared their academic research results with everyone. In 2017, the MAD Travel Fund was upgraded again and opened to students all over the world for the first time, funding 5 Chinese students and 5 foreign students. MAD also assists students in making appointments with architectural firms they want to visit, or plans to talk with masters active in today's thought, architecture, culture and art circles.

Special sponsor of the 8th MAD Travel Fund in 2017: China Express Airlines