On March 26, the delegation of University of Clermont Auvergne  (French: Université Clermont Auvergne) visited the hospital. Prof. Zhao Yan, Vice President of the hospital met the delegation with experts from neurology, rehabilitation, geriatrics and orthopaedics presented. Two sides agreed on the cooperation to tackle the challenge of  "Human mobility for better health" which is the focus of I-SITE CAP2025 Initiative. CAP 2025 was selected through the competitive call in 2017.

University Clermont Auvergne is a public university which was created with the merger of Blaise Pascal University and the University of Auvergne on 1 January 2017. It dates back to a medical college founded in 1808.