Calendar 2020-21

The University 19 Part 1 n n International Links The Office of Academic Links (OAL) serves as the international relations arm for the University. Its efforts enable the University to actively foster international partnerships and research collaborations with institutions worldwide. To facilitate the formation and development of partnerships, OAL administers a number of schemes to promote academic and research collaborations through mobility and conferences. Some of these schemes include graduate student mobility schemes, faculty mobility schemes, and the CUHK Research Summit Series. The University is a member of a number of international associations and networks that provide platforms for forming partnerships, exchanging ideas and knowledge for teaching and research, and promoting cultural exchange. These include the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN), the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU), and the Asia-Pacific Association for International Education (APAIE), just to name a few. OAL coordinates engagements with these associations and promotes joint academic and research opportunities with member institutions. In addition to building and maintaining relationships worldwide, OAL is also instrumental in driving and coordinating international partnerships and agreements. The University currently has over 700 agreements with institutions overseas. Within the University, OAL assists individual units to identify common areas of interest in teaching and research with overseas institutions and provides advice in realizing joint research, teaching and other academic initiatives. Every year, some 120 overseas delegations visit the University, with many leading to collaborative teaching and research projects. OAL is also an outreach arm of the University and actively promotes CUHK abroad. n n China Links The University has consistently developed academic links and research collaboration with educational and research institutions on the mainland and in Taiwan. Both the scope and the mode of exchange activities have expanded considerably over the years. A variety of academic exchange agreements have been concluded by the University or its academic departments with mainland and Taiwan institutions. These include memoranda for research and teaching collaborations, faculty and student exchange programmes, joint curriculum and academic activities. Major partners of CUHK include the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), Fudan University, Nanjing University, Peking University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Sun Yat-sen University, Tsinghua University, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Zhejiang University, National Taiwan University, National Cheng Kung University, University System of Taiwan, and Academia Sinica (AS).