In order to enrich students' vacation life and enhance their academic vision and professionalism, the Foreign Affairs Office of the university, with the support of the Academic Affairs Office, carried out an online international exchange program for students in the winter vacation of 2022, in which 52 students of the university participated in academic and practical training courses offered by 12 world-famous universities and 500 companies in North America, including the University of Cambridge (UK), the University of Oxford (UK), the Duke University (USA), the Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), the National University of Singapore (NUS), the University of Hong Kong (HK), the University of Nuremberg (Germany), the University of Hong Kong, University of Nuremberg (Germany), University of Malaysia (Malaysia), University of Sydney (Australia), and 12 other world-famous universities and North American Fortune 500 companies offered academic and practical training theme courses. Students from 11 faculties and departments, including the College of Finance and Economics, the College of Medicine, the College of Ecological and Environmental Engineering, the College of Water Conservancy and Electric Power, the College of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, the College of Mechanical Engineering, the College of Chemical Engineering, the College of Civil Engineering, the New Energy Photovoltaic Industry Research Center, the Department of Computer Technology and Applications, and the Department of Geological Engineering, approached the world's first-class prestigious universities in the cloud, and went deep into the elite workplaces of the top 100 companies, experiencing the original flavor of the internationalization of learning and practice and bringing enlightenment and inspirations to the future academic This will bring enlightenment and inspiration to their future studies.
Through the winter vacation exchange program, students embarked on a journey to visit schools in the cloud, had in-depth dialogues with professors and tutors from famous universities and enterprises, conducted in-depth research and learned from experience in a strong and open academic atmosphere, broadened their horizons, gained new knowledge and enlightened their thinking by comparing the differences between Chinese and foreign studies, enhanced their communication, brought into play their strengths, and collided with sparks in the cross-cultural and cross-biological peer interactions, and felt the significance and value of the exchange study to their own growth and development.
The students who participated in the programme said in the summary that they had gained a lot and would continue to pay attention to more international exchange courses. Zhou Chuanyun from the School of Mechanical Engineering said, "The six weeks of study greatly enriched my holiday life, improved my English vocabulary, practiced my spoken English, enhanced my English proficiency, and broadened my horizons." Zhu Jia, a student from Water Conservancy and Electric Power College, said, "During this period of time, by actively communicating with my classmates, the professor's class is very lively and interesting, and the professionalism is very strong."
The Office will continue to promote the internationalisation of the school, sustain in-depth cooperation with world-renowned institutions, and build more broad platforms for students to benefit and progress from internationalized learning.
