Chinese University Delegation Attends 36th Annual Meeting of European Association for International Education

From September 6th to 12th, Wang Luxin, Deputy Secretary-General of the China Education Association for International Exchange, led a delegation of Chinese universities to the UK to participate in the 36th European Association for International Education Annual Conference and carried out a series of educational exchange activities, focusing on the high-quality development of China's higher education, Digital transformation, international education and other achievements, take the initiative to build a bridge between Chinese and foreign universities, and demonstrate China's positive attitude in expanding high-level education open cooperation.

On September 7, the Sino-British Higher Education Cooperation Negotiation Event was successfully held in London, England. Joe Johnson, Chairman of the Alliance for High Achievement Student Programs (HAP), Vivian Stern, CEO of the Alliance of British Universities (UUK), and Deputy Secretary-General Wang Luxin attended the event and spoke. During the event, seven universities, including the University of York, the University of Newcastle and the University of Exeter, conducted special docking with 16 Chinese universities on two-way study abroad, academic exchanges, joint scientific research and personnel training, and reached a number of cooperation intentions. Wang Luxin held talks with Chairman Joe Johnson to conduct in-depth discussions on cooperation in running schools, short-term student exchanges, and internship programs in China, and invited him to lead British universities to participate in this year's China International Education Annual Conference. During their stay in London, the Chinese delegation also visited the Education Office of the Chinese Embassy in the UK. Public Counselor Zhou Weiwei and Counselor Kuang Jianjiang warmly received the delegation and introduced the situation of British higher education and Sino-British educational exchanges and cooperation.

From September 8th to 11th, a delegation of Chinese universities appeared in the form of a national pavilion at the 36th European Association for International Education (EAIE) Annual Conference and Exhibition held in Glasgow. With the theme of "The Rhythm of Revolution" (The Rhythm of Change), this annual meeting attracted more than 7300 education representatives from more than 100 countries and regions.

The Chinese delegation used multiple platforms to showcase the achievements of China's higher education in the fields of discipline construction, talent training, scientific research and innovation, focusing on the promotion of high-quality curriculum systems, characteristic professional projects and international school-running measures, and from France, the United Kingdom, Spain, Educational institutions in more than 40 countries and regions including Portugal, the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, and Turkey have conducted more than 100 negotiations, we have reached a number of cooperation intentions in the fields of studying in China, cooperative education, digital education, long-term and short-term exchanges, and joint training of talents.

During the EAIE Annual Conference, for the first time, the Association co-hosted with the European Association of International Education a Sino-European Symposium on Digital Education. The meeting was hosted by Shenzhen University of Information Technology. Melvin Bakr, Executive Director of the European Association for International Education, Philippe van Depler, Deputy Director General of Education and Culture of the European Commission, and Deputy Secretary-General Wang Luxin attended the event and delivered speeches. The new president of the European Association for International Education Tayeb Shire and more than 100 representatives from more than 70 universities and institutions from more than 20 countries and regions in Central Europe attended the meeting. Chinese universities such as China University of Political Science and Law, Nanjing Agricultural University, Shaanxi Normal University, Shenzhen University of Technology, Shenzhen University of Information Technology and other Chinese universities have focused on the active exploration and fruitful results in the field of cooperative education and digital education. Universities and institutions such as the University of Science, the European Knowledge Innovation Center and the British Cultural Education Association share practical cases around the opportunities and challenges of China-EU cross-border cooperation in the digital context. The two sides agreed that China-EU education has outstanding complementary advantages and broad space for cooperation. It is necessary to accelerate the promotion of online joint courses in universities, micro-certificate interoperability, and the joint construction of international digital education standards, realize mutual promotion of education and technology through school-enterprise linkage, and promote information sharing in digital education. Resource sharing, knowledge sharing, and make positive contributions to the development of global digital education.

During the annual meeting, Deputy Secretary-General Wang Luxin held talks with Tayeb Shire, the new president of the European Association for International Education, to exchange in-depth views on making full use of the platform of the annual meeting between the two sides to deepen exchanges and cooperation between Chinese and European universities, and to communicate with representatives of The PIE News, Studyportals, Portuguese higher education institutions and other institutions around the China International Education Annual Meeting, education exhibition, foreign publicity and university cooperation.

The participating units include not only key universities under the Ministry, but also local undergraduate colleges, vocational colleges and local international education pilot zone management institutions. The region spans many provinces and cities in China. Through college negotiations, special forums, exhibition exchanges, etc. It has further expanded the cooperation channels between Chinese universities and European and world educational institutions, and effectively enhanced the international influence and attractiveness of Chinese education.

(International Promotion Department contribution)