For the first time in two years, the Office of International Exchange of National Sun Yat-sen University’s College of Management held its “European Partner School Expo” on December 15, 2021 in Tian Yong Hall on the 11th floor of the Library Building. Due to the impact of the global pandemic, only students from European partner schools were allowed to come on exchange this semester. Student representatives from 8 countries and 12 partner schools were invited to participate in the event. The students were from Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University/DHBW (Germany), University of Munich (Germany), University of Mannheim (Germany), Hanken School of Economics (Finland), Universidad de Sevilla (Spain), University of Liège (Belgium), Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), University of Hradec Králové (Czech Republic), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Italy), Zurich University of Applied Sciences (Switzerland), ISCID-CO (France), and KEDGE (France).
At the beginning of the event, Professor Mia Hsiao-Wen Ho, Director of the College of Management’s Office of International Exchange, gave an opening speech and presented souvenirs to the student representatives of each school as a token of appreciation. Director Ho said: “The College of Management has signed partner school contracts with many schools. I hope that through this event, students can make full use of the internationalization resources of the College of Management and get to know more about the partner schools through the exchange of information with the student representatives of each school. The pandemic has been difficult for everyone, and I hope the situation can get better and better in the future.”
During the event, representatives from partner schools and Taiwanese students had lively exchanges and interaction, taking advantage of the opportunity for one-on-one conversation to learn more about the international resources of our partner schools and of the College of Management. Taiwanese students who plan to become exchange students or participate in double degree programs in the future also used the opportunity to establish international contacts. At the same time, to encourage students to get to know more about different partner schools, the organizer, the College’s Office of International Exchange Office, encouraged students to collect stamps from each school’s booth. Students who collected all the stamps could redeem the stamp book for a supermarket merchandise card, a raffle ticket for a bookstore book gift certificate, and a beautiful Christmas lunch box container.
The student representatives from each school said that the event was very interesting and they were honored to represent their school and interact with Taiwanese students. The Taiwanese students expressed that they enjoyed this type of activity and found it very useful, especially because they could interact with foreign students directly and learn about the schools they are interested in through them.
(Written by An-Hsu Hsueh, IBMBA student/Edited by the College of Management)
