Cooperation Anniversaries with Nanjing University
The University of Göttingen has cooperated very successfully with its most important Chinese partner Nanjing University since 1984. On 8th and 9th November 2019, the partner universities celebrated 35 years of successful strategic partnership and 30 years of the joint Sino-German Institute for Legal Studies. The activities in Nanjing comprised an academic anniversary celebration, a number of scientific conferences and workshops as well as a large alumni meeting.
On this occasion, Vice President for Internationalisation Prof. Dr. Casper-Hehne headed a large delegation of professors and junior scientists from various fields on a visit to Nanjing. At Nanjing University, the delegation met with Party Secretary Dr. Hu, President Prof. Dr. Lyu, Vice Party Secretary Prof. Dr. Yang, and Vice President Prof. Dr. Wang. During the anniversary activities and meetings, the leaders and delegations not only looked back on the long-lasting and successful cooperation, but they made concrete plans how to further develop, improve and strengthen the strategic partnership in the future. The signing of several new cooperation agreements mirrored these ambitions. At the opening conference of the 2019 Nanjing University Global Vision Week, Vice President Prof. Dr. Casper-Hehne reported in a keynote speech about internationalisation and digitalisation at the University of Göttingen.
The annual meeting of the Association of Chinese Alumni of the University of Göttingen took place in connection with the anniversary events. It comprised several academic reports, a dinner on invitation of the University of Göttingen, and an intensive exchange of ideas among the alumni and with the guests from Göttingen. With 160 participants, it was the hitherto largest Göttingen alumni meeting in China.
The unusually successful cooperation between the University of Göttingen and Nanjing University is, apart from numerous projects in research and teaching in various fields, especially characterised by long-term and institutionalised forms of collaboration. Four joint institutes, the Sino-German Institute for Legal Studies (since 1989), the German-Chinese Institute for Intercultural German Studies and Cultural Comparison (since 2005), the Sino-German Institute of Social Computing (since 2015), and the Academic Confucius Institute at the University of Göttingen (trilateral with Nanjing University and Beijing Foreign Studies University; since 2014), as well as four double degree master programmes in the areas of law (since 1984 and 2012), intercultural German studies (since 2007), and business and economics (since 2018) represent this type of strategic institutionalised cooperation.
Contact:
Dr. Frank Stiller
Regional Coordinator China, Korea, Mongolia, Taiwan
Director, China Office
The International Office / Göttingen International