International Academic Exchanges and
Cooperation at SDU
SDU has attached great importance to
international academic exchanges and cooperation.
(1)SDU has cultural and educational contacts and interchanges with over 100
universities/colleges and scientific and technological organizations in the world. SDU has
established long-term fruitful collegiate relations with over 30 universities/colleges,
respectively in the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, the Republic of Korea,
Germany, France, Sweden ,Brazil, Sudan, Egypt and other countries, conducting various
exchange activities: visiting scholar exchange, student exchange, joint research,
cooperative training, publications exchange and so on. SDU has developed its international
academic exchanges and cooperation in an active, multi-form, multi-channel and multi-level
way.
(2)Since the reform and opening-up, SU has invited over 1,000 long- and short-term foreign
experts and scholars to teach, deliver lectures, and conduct joint research. Meanwhile,
SDU has sent abroad over 1,500 faculty members and students to pursue further studies,
attend international conferences, pay visits and carry on investigations for academic
purposes.
(3) SDU has successfully sponsored many important international conferences. (4) SDU has
trained over 2,000 long- and short-term foreign students from 32 different countries and
regions. The student categories are expanding towards a higher level year after year.
1. Highlighting key points, striving for
practical results and laying stress on high-tech cooperation and exchanges
For a long time, SDU has maintained close cooperative relations with the first-class
universities/colleges and laboratories in the world and has made outstanding achievements
in the field of high technology. For instance, the research on biological nitrogen
fixation is one of the key joint projects between SDU and Sydney University in Australia.
The achievement is regarded as a milestone in biological nitrogen fixation research in the
international biological circle. Over the past 10 years, the Institute of High Energy
Physics at SDU has mutually chosen research topics and jointly conduct experiments with
the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in the United States, and has succeeded in many
projects.
2. Introducing foreign brains to enhance
teaching and research
Since 1978, SDU has invited 145 long-term foreign experts and teachers. They directly
participate in the teaching and research at SDU and have trained a large number of young
and middle-aged excellent teachers, graduates and undergraduates. Foreign experts and
teachers have played a special role in updating textbook contents, reforming old subjects,
strengthening the construction of weak disciplines, establishing new courses, enhancing
the teaching of foreign languages and improving students' overall foreign language levels.
SDU has been praised for its success in the administration of foreign experts affairs by
the Central and local government, and has been selected as an advanced unit in Shandong
Province.
During the past years, over 2,000 short-term
foreign experts and scholars have come to SDU to conduct joint research, give lectures and
carry on academic investigations. Many famous foreign scholars, such as have elivered
lectures and paid visits to SDU. SDU has invited over 100 foreign experts and scholars as
its Honorary Professors, Visiting Professors and Advisors, and they have helped greatly to
promote the development of teaching and research at SDU.
3. Sponsoring international academic
conferences and organizing international academic forums
SDU has sponsored over 20 international academic conferences with more than 1,000 foreign
experts and scholars. The conferences have greatly push forward the research at SDU. The
success of the conferences displays the traditional advantage in social science and the
new development in natural sciences at SDU as well.
4. Acting as an important training base for
foreign students
From 1980 on, SDU has trained over 800 long-term foreign students from 32 different
countries nd regions, and over 1,000 short-term students. SDU has been chosen as one of
the key training bases for foreign students in China.
At present, over 200 long-term foreign
students from 20 countries and regions are studying at SDU. They major in 25 specialities
in 10 different schools and departments: Chinese Language and Literature, History,
Economics, Mathematics and so on. They are classified as language students,
undergraduates, graduates and doctoral students. The student categories are expanding
towards a higher level year after year.
