ECNU has established cooperative relations with nearly 130 universities in Europe, featuring a broad range of cooperation and active cultural exchanges.
In the French-speaking area, with a long history of cooperation with universities in French, ECNU has achieved remarkable results. Specifically, ECNU has carried out dual-degree joint training, student exchanges, short-term study tours, Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools, and co-construction of international joint laboratories with nearly 30 different types of higher education institutions.Particularly, the Sino-French joint postgraduate training program co-organized with three French normal schoolsrepresented by Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, and the Asia-Europe Business School co-organized with Emlyon Business School have become an important part of international education. In addition, ECNU is also an important destination for French students to study in China, therefore France has become the third largest source of international students of ECNU.
In the Russian-speaking area, focusing on humanities and scientific and technological cooperation and exchanges, ECNU has established cooperative relations with more than 30 universities and institutions, including Lomonosov Moscow State University, National Research University, Higher School of Economics, and Novosibirsk State University, carrying out student and teacher exchanges, short-term study tours, joint application for international cooperation projects, and joint construction of international joint laboratories, etc.
In terms of German-speaking areas, focusing on cultural and people-to-people exchanges and research, ECNU has signed contracts with nearly 20 universities including Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Hamburg, Göttingen University, and the University of Basel. Featuring global academic exchanges, these universities have carried out diversified teacher and student exchanges, and jointly established the “ECNU-Jena University Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences” and “ECNU-Göttingen University Research Center for Global Humanities”, which has produced a number of high-level scientific research cooperation results and promoted exchanges and mutual learning between Chinese and Western civilizations.
Meanwhile, ECNU has also actively carried out teacher and student exchanges and training with universities in Britain such as the University of Manchester and Durham University. Based on the exchanges and learning between students, Meng Xiancheng College and the College of Teacher Education of ECNU havecarried out in-depth exchanges and diversified cooperation with relevant colleges and education colleges of Durham University respectively. The doctor dissertation co-cultivated with Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands in the field of estuarine and coastal science was published as a cover paper in the top-ranking journalJGR: Earth Surface. In addition, ECNU and the Wailian Group jointly established the Overseas China Research Center serving as an exchange platform for humanities and social sciences of ECNU and the academic circles of Hungary and Central and Eastern Europe.
