Taiwan-Hungary Roundtable at the National Tsing Hua University
The 2015 Taiwan-Hungary Roundtable was held in National Tsing Hua University on September 30. The event is an inaugural cooperation between the Foundation for International Cooperation in Higher Education of Taiwan (FICHET) and the Hungarian Rectors’ Conference (HRC) with the aim of creating more collaboration opportunities for Taiwan and Hungary. The participants included presidents, vice presidents and deans of international affairs from both countries.
The main advisor of the conference is the Ministry of Education, Taiwan. Conference organizers include FICHET and HRC. The joint organizer is National Tsing Hua University. The conference brought together 75 participants from 45 universities from both sides. The conference opened with the welcoming remarks from Deputy Minister Lucia Lin, Ministry of Education, President József Bódis, Hungarian Rectors’ Conference, Chairperson Huey-Jen Su from FICHET , and President Hong Hocheng from National Tsing Hua University. There are currently 19 Taiwanese universities cooperating with Hungarian institutes and 59 Hungarian students are now pursuing their studies in Taiwan. We hope that through the conference today, we can open up the channels for the universities between Taiwan and Hungary and create more opportunities for future dialogue. The discussion topics include: (1) Student Recruitment in Higher Education: Mission, Strategies and Action Plans, (2) Promotion for Feasible University Collaboration: Exchange Students, Joint Research and Joint/Dual Degree. In addition, both Taiwan and Hungary gave an introduction on the education system respectively. Dr Zoltán Dubéczi, the Secretary General of the HRC proposed to have the second Taiwan-Hungary Roundtable Meeting in Budapest next year.
The delegations from Hungary also visited National Yang Ming University, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei Medical University and Academia Sinica during their visit in Taiwan. They were impressed by the quality education that Taiwan offered and expressed their interest in signing MoU with Taiwan’s universities for further collaboration.
Source: http://www.fichet.org.tw/?post_type=event&p=10280&hl=en
