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UFMG delegation from Brazil visits HUST

Dec 20, 2024

On December 2, Bárbara Malveira Orfanó, Deputy Director of Office of International Affairs of Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais(UFMG) in Brazil, and his delegation visited Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). They discussed inter-university and interdisciplinary cooperation with the HUSTs representatives from the Office of International Affairs (OIA) and relevant schools.


 

Jiang Jing, Deputy Director of HUST OIA, offered a warm welcome to the delegation. She highlighted that UFMG has been the most important partner of HUST in South America, and the Confucius Institute jointly established by the two universities has served as a significant platform for cultural exchanges between China and Brazil. In recent years, the cooperation has been expanded to various fields, and agreements have been signed and carried out with the School of Economics, the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, and the Law School. On the coming 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Brazil, we look forward for further cooperation to deepen the China-Brazil friendship and foster cultural communication through.


Bárbara Malveira Orfanó thanked HUST for the warm reception. She expressed her wish on integrating bilateral strengths and working together in education, research, and culture through the solid foundation of the Confucius Institute, so as to contribute to the global education issues and the China-Brazil friendship.


After that, Sueli Maria Coelho, Director of UFMG Faculty of Languages, Literature, and Linguistics, and Miriam Piedade Mansur Andrade, Brazilian Director of the Confucius Institute, put forward their inclination for a Chinese-Portuguese bilingual training program, and had in-depth discussion with representatives from the School of Humanities and the School of Foreign Languages.

 

 

After the meeting, Antonella Lombardi Costa, Head of UFMG Department of Nuclear Engineering, headed for the School of Energy and Power Engineering of HUST for academic exchanges; Marcus Vinicius Melo de Andrade, Professor from the Department of Clinical Medicine visited the Union Hospital of Tongji Medical College, touring the Emergency Medicine Department, the Acupuncture & Moxibustion Department, and the Union Hospital History Museum. The delegation and faculties exchanged ideas about medical student exchange programs.

During the visit, the delegation also attended the Council of the Confucius Institute to discuss the progress of the construction and the work plan for next year.

 

 

Written by: She Chen

Edited by: Zhou Enlin, Chang Wen, Peng Yumeng

 

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