SUIBE President Sun Haimin recently met at Songjiang campus withDr. Ivan Svetlik, Vector of the University of Ljubljana inSlovenia, and Mr. Danijela Voljč, Co-director of ConfuciusInstitute Ljubljana, who were in Shanghai for the 10th ConfuciusInstitute Conference. Vice President Nie Qing, Dean of LanguageSchool and Director of the Office for Confucius Institutes WangGuanglin, Deputy Director of the Office for Confucius Institutes YeRong, and Co-director of CI Ljubljana Xie Duquan were present atthe meeting.
The two sides briefed each other on the latest progress incurriculum development, talent training, and internationalcooperation at their universities as well as the trends of highereducation in their own countries, exchanged opinions on furtherpartnership between the two universities, and agreed on teacher andstudent exchange programs and joint research.
Later, a board meeting for CI Ljubjana was convened and attendedby, among others, Ivan Svetlik, Danijela Voljč, Nie Qing, WangGuanglin, Ye Rong, and Xie Duquan. Danijela Voljč made a report onthe work in 2015 and the plan for 2016. Vice President Nieexpressed the hope to further enhance the partnership between thetwo universities through the platform of CI Ljubljana in areas suchas teacher-student exchanges and joint research projects. Membersof the board discussed the key work for 2016, particularly theestablishment of HSK (or Chinese Proficiency Test) in CI Ljubljanaand the compilation of a textbook on Chinese for Tourism.