Date: June 04, 2020 
Source: International Exchange and Cooperation Department     
Author: Zhang Zhe

JNU and the University of Salento (UNISAL) held a cloud signing ceremony on June 3 to renew their international cooperation agreements. In attendance were Bai Luqian, Italy's consul general in Guangzhou; JNU President Song Xianzhong; Vice President Zhang Hong'; and UNISAL President Fabio Pulis and Vice President Rosita Damora.
Pulis said UNISAL has always attached great importance to cooperating with China and has launched program to cooperate with China, promoting academic exchanges and interactions between two universities. Although the original plan to visit JNU this June was postponed because of Covid-19, UNISAL will continue striving to promote cooperation between the two universities and strengthen academic communication, Pulis said, adding that he said he looked forward to visiting JNU after the epidemic.

Song reviewed cooperation between the two universities in recent years. He said UNISAL had been cooperating with JNU for nine years and had been supported by two scientific research programs, the 4 Seventh Framework Program and Horizon 2020, in joint research projects in management science. The renewal of this agreement, an affirmation of the past cooperation, demonstrates the desire and determination to deepen cooperation in the future. Other related disciplines at JNU will also actively participate in the future.
 

Bai congratulated the two universities on the renewal of the cooperation agreement and expressed great appreciation for their efforts to promote cultural exchanges between China and Italy. She said she considered it a pioneer in China-Italy cooperative programs. She was glad to see that JNU had maintained good cooperative relations with many Italian universities and promised that the Consulate General of Italy in Guangzhou would continue to support educational exchanges between universities in the two countries to promote scientific and educational cooperation.

Founded in 1955, the University of Salento in Lecce, on the Salentina Peninsula in southern Italy, has a total enrollment of nearly 30,000. As a multidisciplinary comprehensive university covering the arts, economics, management and science, it ranks as Italy’s second-best public university for the liberal arts.