June 65438+1October 65438+June 2009, Tsinghua-Groningen Day kicked off in Tsinghua University. A delegation composed of senior managers from university of groningen and famous scholars and professors had a positive interaction and exchange with teachers and students from Tsinghua. Academician Wang Dazhong, Honorary Director of the School Council of Tsinghua University, met with President Sibron Pope Ma and his party. Wang Dazhong said that Tsinghua and university of groningen have always had good cooperation, and the two universities signed a cooperation agreement as early as 1990. "Tsinghua-Groningen Day" will be a new starting point for cooperation between the two universities. President Pope Ma expressed the hope that the two universities will deepen cooperation in the future, especially in the exchange between teachers and students. Mr. Wei Lixian, Minister of the Dutch Embassy in China, accompanied the meeting. Professor Xie Weihe, Vice President of Tsinghua University, delivered a speech for the opening ceremony of "university of groningen Day". He hoped that "Tsinghua Groningen Day" would become a platform to further strengthen the friendship and cooperation between the two universities. Pope Ma, President of university of groningen, Wilhelm Fan Yi, Minister of the Dutch Embassy in China, Xue Jian, Director of the Department of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Education, and Zheng Yankang, Deputy Director of the School Affairs Committee of Tsinghua University, attended the opening ceremony. At the subsequent signing ceremony, Vice President Xie Weihe and President Pope Ma signed an inter-school cooperation agreement on behalf of Tsinghua and university of groningen respectively. According to the agreement, the two sides will take the exchange of students as the starting point, and gradually promote the comprehensive cooperation between the two sides in joint training of students, teacher exchanges and scientific research. At the same time, the two universities initiated the exchange and cooperation of doctoral students in law schools.
On the afternoon of May 20th, 2065438+00, Professor Sibrand Poppema, President of university of groningen, Netherlands, led a delegation of 8 people to visit Peking University Health Science Center.
The communication between Tianjin and Groningen began at 1985. In April, 1993, a delegation of Groningen municipal government visited Tianjin, and visited the Tianjin Affiliated Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine and several universities. The director of Huatuo Center of university of groningen Medical College signed a letter of intent with the First Affiliated Chinese Medicine Hospital of Tianjin to establish a European China traditional medicine network and training center. Since then, the two cities have achieved different degrees of results in cooperation in traditional Chinese medicine, research on prevention and treatment of occupational diseases, and exchanges between universities. Tianjin Medical College and university of groningen Medical College have jointly conducted occupational dermatitis research for several years. The two sides exchanged visits of medical personnel, and cooperated with Tianjin Changzheng Hospital to develop a new method for treating occupational dermatitis by using Dutch formula.
There are more than 8,000 China students studying in the Netherlands, of whom more than 800 are engaged in doctoral and postdoctoral research, nearly 3,000 are pursuing various master's degrees, and the rest are undergraduates. University of groningen is one of the first choice schools for China students to study in Holland, and the proportion of China students majoring in international business usually accounts for 20%.
According to the national economic and social development plan of Yantai in 20 16, we will strive to achieve summer enrollment in university of groningen, Yantai.