On January 27-28, President Jekuk Chang of Dongseo University (South Korea) led a delegation to visit SUES. SUES President Lou Yongqi and Vice President Xia Chunming met with the delegation. Relevant officials from the International Office and International Institute of Creative Design participated in the reception.
President Lou Yongqi held cooperative discussions with President Jekuk Chang and his delegation at the conference room of Co-op Comprehensive Building. He elaborated on SUES’ Vision in the new era—to build a world-class application-innovation-oriented university with distinct industrial features, as well as the progress of advancing “Engineering + Management + Design” 3-wings framework. He emphasized the future plans for School of Design (in development), proposing to foster future-oriented, multidisciplinary design talents by employing highly qualified international faculty and promoting organizational innovation through learning communities. He expressed SUES’ deep appreciation for the foundation of long-standing friendship and solid cooperation with Dongseo University, anticipating further deepening of innovative training models and resource integration between the two universities in the future.
President Jekuk Chang expressed his sincere gratitude for the warm reception by SUES and highly commended SUES’ innovation achievements in disciplinary integration, industry-education collaboration, and the open campus. He highlighted Dongseo University’s latest progress in design discipline integration and pedagogical innovation, particularly its collaboration with the Minerva Project in the United States and plans to promote educational paradigms. He noted that both universities maintain a strong focus on cutting-edge design fields such as artificial intelligence and human-machine collaboration, hoping to explore new pathways in design education through the newly established School of Design (in development) of SUES.
On January 28, Vice President Xia Chunming accompanied the delegation on a tour of the SUES-DIIS Joint Innovation Center, allowing an in-depth understanding of the center’s construction progress and operational philosophy. He noted that SUES’ approach of establishing an open campus to promote deep integration between educational scenarios and industrial practice aligns with the open educational ecosystem advocated by Dongseo University. The center’s location in downtown Shanghai and its cluster effect of bringing together world-class design teams will open new prospects for implementing PBL projects in the design field between the two universities. In turn, the collaboration is expected to create new opportunities for both universities to explore deeper integration mechanisms of industry, academia and research and to contribute exemplary practices to global design education.
During the visit, the head of International Institute of Creative Design introduced the current achievements and future objectives of the cooperative program. Both parties reviewed the history of collaboration, acknowledged the educational accomplishments of the Institute, exchanged views on operational matters and the upcoming institutional evaluation, and agreed on continuing to advance the high-quality development of the Institute.
This visit further strengthened mutual trust and understanding between the two universities, laying the foundation for future educational innovation, scientific research collaboration, and faculty-student exchanges through broader platforms.
