On 3 November, South China Normal University held the successful International Symposium on High Quality Development of Cooperative Education in the New Era and the Launching Ceremony of the First International Culture Festival of Foshan Nanhai Campus.
The Symposium focused on how cooperative education can shape the future, reshape educational concepts, innovate educational and teaching practices, and improve the overall discipline construction of universities and colleges. International experts, scholars, and practitioners in the field of cooperative education were invited for the joint discussion to further improve the quality and efficiency of cooperative education, achieve meaningful, high quality development, share advanced educational concepts at home and abroad, and build a new pattern of opening up and cooperation in education. The Symposium aimed to accelerate the transformation of SCNU Foshan Nanhai Campus featuring "new engineering, internationalization, new business" and the creation of an international demonstration zone, to extract the campus's educational characteristics, to gather Chinese and foreign educational resources, to build a cooperative education exchange platform, and to share advanced Chinese and foreign educational concepts.
Harminder Battu (Dean for International Partnership and Development), John Skatun (Chair in Economics, Head of School), Aladdin Ayesh (Aberdeen Institute’s Vice Dean) from the University of Aberdeen were invited to give speeches during the forum.
Aberdeen Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence is one of the co-organizations with the International Business College and the International United College.