From October 18 to 20, the 13th North-East-West-South University Conference (N.E.W.S.) was held at the Hubei University of Technology in Wuhan. Invited by the conference committee, Professor Ma Xun, director of International Cooperation and Exchange Office, and Ms. Xie Siyu attended the conference and made a speech at the conference. In her speech, Ms. Ma gave a brief introduction of undergraduate and graduate programs of HUAT, present research situation and achievements and international cooperation and exchange etc, and had talks with representatives from Germany, USA, Britain and India etc. She also signs a memo with University of Detroit Mercy, USA.
Ms. Ma said it was the first time for HUAT to have representatives attends the conference, which offered a platform to communicate and discuss with universities at home and abroad about higher education development and chances for HUAT to explore new models of cooperation between universities and enterprises face to face.
N.E.W.S. was founded in Berlin in 1994 and ever since has been joined by a large number of colleges and universities from the United States, South Korea and Germany, China etc. It has made significant contribution to exchange and communication between universities around world.
