Zheng Chengliang, the Vice President, Led the Delegation of SJTU Visiting France

From Nov 5 to 9, Zhen Chengliang, the vice president, led the delegation of SJTU visiting the University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), the French Academy of Sciences, University of Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne and the University of Nice. They signed the GIP agreement to join in the Across Europe and Asia, Law and Humanities research group, which is subordinate to French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. And they had conversations about building academic cooperation and stuff exchange visit and studies among the School of Humanities and Institute for Advanced Study in European Culture, Shanghai Jiao Tong Universities, University of Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, the University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) and the University of Nice. Visiting Professor Gao Xuanyang, dean of Institute for Advanced Study in European Culture, Professor Chang Heshan, deputy director of Division for the development of liberal arts, Professor Li Yongying from department of philosophy, etc accompanied the visit.

Zhen Chengliang, Gao Xuanyang signed GIP cooperation on behalf of SJTU

     On the signing ceremony in the French Academy of Sciences, the vice president of SJTU, Professor Zheng Chengliang delivered a speech. Professor Zheng introduced the development status of Shanghai Jiao Tong University and its School of Humanities. He shows that Shanghai Jiao Tong University is and will continue promoting its humanities and social sciences and is willing to establish a long-term and stable cooperation mechanism with the French high-level scientific research institutions. The two parties both intend to focus on the promotion of the scientific research cooperation, exchange visitors among professors and the student exchanges on the basis of intercollegiate cooperative frame agreement and in the form of exchange visits.

     University of Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), and the University of Nice all have their unique features of humanistic scientific research. Their philosophy, literature, arts, law, economics, etc. have very strong solid academic basis and international influence. The French Academy of Sciences, “French home of humanities” and Paris Institute for Advanced Study are the representatives of the utmost high level of humanistic scientific research institutions in France.