Time: June 4, 2018
Source: Office of International Exchange and Cooperation

A delegation led by JNU Vice President Hong An visited universities in Finland, Sweden and Denmark from May 22 to 29. The delegation also discussed the establishment of a JNU Alumni Organization in Northern Europe with elite residents of Sweden, including Yihai Cao, a JNU professor emeritus, and Yani Liu, a member of Swedish Chinese Association.

The goal was to develop partnerships with academicians and their teams from well-known Nordic universities to cultivate characteristic and preponderant disciplines at JNU and to make them world-class disciplines.

The first two days, the delegation visited the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, the Minerva Foundation Institute for Medical Research and the University of Helsinki's Faculty of Medicine, as well as their medical laboratories. They explored how to promote bilateral scientific cooperation.

 (Hong presenting a gift to representatives of the University of Helsinki)

The delegation visited Karolinska Institutet in Sweden to meet with Cao, its chief scientist in microbiology and cell biology, and his team on May 25 to 26. Planning to collaborate on joint scientific research, talent introduction and industrialization, the two parties discussed biomedical research and the application of its achievements.

A JNU biomedical team visited the university hospital and biomedical group at Linkopings Universitet (LiU), discussing a blueprint for cooperation in biomedicine. One of JNU professors in physics held an academic lecture and discussed a joint laboratory, talent introduction and team-building with LiU's Nobel Prize in Physics, Academician Olle Inganas, and his team studying new materials.

The delegation also visited Göteborg General Community Hospital in the Göteborg, Sweden. It then visited Chalmers University of Technology's Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and its laboratory, discussing the brain gain and scientific research cooperation with the team of academician Ergang Wang.

On May 28, the delegation visited the University of Copenhagen Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences. After discussion, two schools decided to establish exchange programs. The delegation also visited the University of Copenhagen's School of Chemical Sciences and met with Academician Ole John Nielsen, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and his team. The delegation and the team expressed their hope for cooperation in scientific research and transformation of JNU's Institute for Environmental and Climate Research and related disciplines, as well as introduction of talents.

(The delegation visiting INFUSER, an advanced company proficient in zero-pollution technology.)