(Reporter Jiang Weining Correspondent Yao Jiaqi) Last month 29, near the beautiful German port of Hamburg, with two main teaching buildings, building area of 25,000 square meters of Zhejiang Wanli College Hamburg campus was opened, becoming the first independent overseas campus of the province's universities.
This is another brand-new exploration of Zhejiang Wanli College to expand the way of overseas education and promote the internationalization of education in Ningbo, after introducing international high-quality educational resources and opening the first Sino-foreign cooperative university in China - the University of Nottingham Ningbo.
Qian Guoying, vice president of Zhejiang Wanli College, said in an interview yesterday that the Hamburg campus is an entity run by Wanli College under its own management. Wanli College plans to open a number of overseas campuses, and strive to allow every student of the school to have the opportunity to study in depth overseas, to cultivate an international perspective of the application of talent, while allowing foreign students to appreciate Chinese culture, through mutual learning to complement each other's strengths.
It is reported that previously, the province's universities also have overseas schooling attempts, but called off due to enrollment, teaching and other difficulties. Zhejiang Wanli College Hamburg Campus adopts the way of leasing the school building and light assets, relying on the German University of Design and Communication Applied Sciences Hamburg to introduce various teaching and internship resources and recruit excellent German teachers to teach. Zhejiang Wanli College and Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Design and Communication are representative applied universities in their respective countries, and the latter is the first branded college in Europe.
It is understood that at the beginning of the school year, Zhejiang Wanli College Hamburg Campus offers professional courses in Oriental philosophy, Oriental culture and Chinese language and literature for European students, aiming to build a new platform for telling the Chinese story and spreading the Chinese voice. The campus also offers modular courses in economics, management and art for students from the main campus of Zhejiang Wanli College, and establishes a cooperation network between Chinese and German enterprises and a practical teaching platform for Chinese and German students to train cross-cultural talents for Chinese and German enterprises and provide human resources for Chinese enterprises to "go global". Students from both universities have the opportunity to study, visit and travel to Germany and China respectively.
With 1,000 students currently enrolled at the Hamburg campus, the modular courses offered in the future will cover the college's 48 majors. Next month, 26 senior students from the logistics program at Miles College will go to the Hamburg campus; in March and June next year, students from the design and management programs will also fly to Hamburg. In the future, every major at Miles College will have an internationally oriented study program, and students will have to complete a number of international study credits to be awarded a university diploma.
The Consul General of the Chinese Consulate General in Hamburg, Sun Congbin, pointed out that cultivating cross-cultural and complex talents is the urgent need of international exchange and the mission of education, and hoped that Zhejiang Wanli College Hamburg Campus would become a facilitator and guide of Sino-German exchange.
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