On the morning of November 11, Professor Gabriel RACZ, Chairman of the Academic Committee of the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu (ULBS), led a delegation to visit East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST). Vice President Zhu Weihong met with the guests. Both sides held a work meeting on the topic of Upgrading Sino-European Educational Cooperation and reached several mutual agreements.
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Vice President Zhu Weihong warmly welcomed the delegation. He pointed out that since the establishment of the East China University of Science and Technology - Sibiu Sino-European International Business School in 2018, the cooperation between the two universities has steadily progressed, achieving a leap from non-degree training programs to graduate diploma programs. Over 200 high-level business professionals from Central and Eastern Europe have been trained, making it an important model for Sino-Romanian educational cooperation and cultural exchanges. Zhu emphasized that the collaboration between the two universities is a concrete practice of responding to and supporting the national strategy for the international opening of education and also injects university strength into deepening Sino-European comprehensive strategic partnerships. At this new starting point, the two universities should, based on the success of their cooperation in the business school, upgrade the cooperation model from a single-point breakthrough to a comprehensive integration. In terms of academic fields, cooperation should extend from a focus on business to include art design, digital media, foreign languages, and other interdisciplinary collaboration; in terms of cooperation content, it should expand from teaching to include research collaboration, student and faculty exchanges, and joint training; and by relying on the Confucius Institute at Sibiu University, they should initiate innovative language and cultural teaching pilot projects, jointly creating a new platform for Sino-European cultural exchanges that promote mutual understanding and people-to-people connections.
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Chairman RACZ expressed that ULBS attaches great importance to its strategic cooperation with ECUST. The Sino-European International Business School jointly established by the two universities has become a successful model for Sino-European educational cooperation. ULBS looks forward to jointly conducting research and talent training in areas such as digital media and language teaching research, and achieving pragmatic results in broader and deeper fields.
After the meeting, the delegation visited the Digital Media VR Laboratory at the College of Art Design and Media, where they learned about the curriculum of visual communication design and held discussions with faculty and students. Students from the Art College presented original souvenirs to the guests.
The Sibiu University delegation included heads of the Graduate School, College of Arts, College of Economics, and the International Projects Office. Representatives from ECUST's International Exchange Office, Business School, Foreign Language College, Art College, and International Education College also participated in the meeting.
