On the morning of November 11th, Prof. Dr. Ingeborg Schramm-Wölk, President of Hochschule Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSBI) and President of Hainan Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences (BiUH) and her delegation visited Hainan University. The two sides met at the Hexin Hall of the International Academic Exchange Center, and Li Hu, Chairman of the Hainan University Council, attended the meeting.

On the morning of November 11th, Prof. Dr. Schramm-Wölk, President of Hochschule Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSBI) and President of Hainan Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences (BiUH) visits Hainan University (HNU). Schramm-Wölk and Li Hu are engaged in exchanges. (Photo by Zheng Danting)

Schramm-Wölk congratulated Hainan University on its remarkable achievements in recent years. She noted that as the first foreign-funded independent university in China, BiUH still needs continuous efforts to improve teaching quality and optimize talent systems, and looks forward to learning valuable experience from HNU. With a strong commitment to university-enterprise cooperation and research commercialization, BiUH hopes to deepen cooperation with HNU by leveraging their respective resource advantages. The two universities will promote the cooperation in teacher-student exchanges, joint scientific research, and talent training, to pioneer new models of industry-academia-research integration, thereby achieving mutual success and advancing the internationalization of higher education in Hainan.

Li Hu extended a warm welcome to Schramm-Wölk and her delegation, and introduced Hainan University’s recent development in terms of school history, talent training, scientific research innovation, international cooperation, and school-running conditions. He emphasized that the university’s educational strength has been significantly enhanced in recent years—it has entered the QS Asian University Rankings for the first time, ranking 86th among mainland Chinese universities, with multiple core school-running indicators among the top universities in China. He said that striving to build a comprehensive, research-oriented, and international “Double First-Class” university, HNU implements an open strategy, with a focus on serving Belt and Road initiatives and specializing in collaboration with tropical countries and regions. He hoped that taking this exchange as an opportunity, both parties would learn from each other, carry out in-depth cooperation, and jointly promote the high-quality development of higher education in Hainan.

Prior to the meeting, Ingeborg Schramm-Wölk and her delegation, accompanied by Li Hu, visited the Laboratory of New Energy Optoelectronic Materials and Devices and the Application Scenario Integration Exhibition Hall of the Collaborative Innovation Center, gaining a detailed understanding of the university’s high-quality development and the effectiveness in research commercialization.

Schramm-Wölk visits the Laboratory of New Energy Optoelectronic Materials and Devices. (Photo by Zheng Danting)

Schramm-Wölk visits the Application Scenario Integration Exhibition Hall of the Collaborative Innovation Center, Hainan University.  (Photo by Zheng Danting)

Also present at the event were Zeng Weilu, Chairman of the BiUH Council and Vice President, and Yue Wen, Vice President of HNU. They were accompanied by members of the university leadership and heads of relevant departments from both universities.

Translated by Shi Buyue

Proofread by Zhao Yanchun