Cooperation with Middle East, Signed Exchange Agreement with UAE University
Chancellor Jang Ho-Sung has visited United Arab Emirates (referred to as UAE) from April 29 to May 3 and established an exchange cooperation expansion plan with Middle East universities.
During his visit, he signed a MOU contract with vice chancellor of United Arab Emirates University (referred to as UAEU), Ali Rashid Al Noaimi. Mainly it is about faculty and student exchange, joint research project promotion, joint cooperation for economy cooperation development, joint program establishment, and double major degree development etc. Furthermore, he discussed culture exchange with ‘Arrirang’, a Korean wave community in UAEU. Also, he discussed cooperative relationship between Gulf Research Center and GCC National Research Center, an affiliation research center of Dankook University.
Currently, Dankook University is in an exchange cooperative relationship with 6 universities and organizations of UAE and Saudi Arabia. Also, starting from this contract, it is planning to promote more active exchange with Middle Eastern Nations. Meanwhile Dankook University has presented Honorary Educational Doctoral Degree to H.H Sheikha Fatima Bint Mubarak, a first lady of former president Jaid of UAE, for her effort for gender equalization and highly evaluating the improvement of Women Right’s growth.
Expanding Exchange and Cooperation between China’s Elite University and Dankook University’s Colleges
Also, we are expanding exchange and cooperative movement with China’s elite universities. Beyond a simple MOU contract between universities, we are promoting detailed exchange cooperation plan between each colleges.
On April 22nd, College of Architecture (Dean Sang-Jin Chung) of Dankook University signed an exchange agreement with College of Architecture (Dean Yoo-Min Chang) of Tsinghua University. Both colleges decided to develop cooperative relationship in areas such as exchange student program, opening exchange and exhibition for outstanding artworks, inviting people to architecture planning workshop and international seminars, and promoting joint project. Also, Dankook University’s Urban and Regional Planning, Real Estate Studies (College of Social Science), and Environmental Science and Landscape Architecture department (College of Life Resource Science) have agreed to develop cooperative relationship with Architecture and Urban Planning department of College of Architecture of Tsinghua University.
On April 23rd, Dankook University’s College of Arts and Design (Dean Gae-Moon Chung) and Peking University’s School of Arts (Dean Il-Chun Wang) signed an exchange agreement and decided to develop various cooperative relationships such as exchanging students and artworks. This agreement is a result of overall exchange agreement they signed on last May. In addition, they sought other cooperative exchange programs to build practical cooperative relationship such as discussing to expand cooperative exchange with Korean class of Peking University’s School of Foreign Language.