A delegation from Jinan University (JNU), China, was received at NOVA University Lisbon on 3rd December to discuss academic partnerships in the fields of Political Science, Journalism and Communication, and Portuguese and Chinese languages.
The meeting is of great importance, as JNU is one of the oldest universities in China, was the first in the country to recruit foreign students and is currently the Chinese university with the largest number of foreign students.
JNU was represented in Lisbon by Zhang Xiaoxin, Vice President and Professor of International Relations/Political Science, Liu Tao, Professor of Journalism and Communication, Liang Yan, Executive Director of the JNU Alumni Association, Yang Jie, Director of the JNU Development and Planning Department and He Ruihong, Director of the JNU Office of International Exchange and Cooperation.
The meeting was chaired by the Vice Rector, João Amaro de Matos, who coordinates the areas of teaching and international development at NOVA, and also included the Deputy Director of Internationalisation, Culture and Regional Partnerships of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences ( FCSH), Maria Cardeira da Silva, and Alexandra Fiéis and Joana Teixeira, both professors at the Linguistics Centre of NOVA University Lisbon, and Amilton Moreira, from the Internationalisation, Culture and Regional Partnerships Division of the same Faculty.