On the afternoon of April 11, 2018, Jan Oskar ENGENE and Ragnhild Louise MURIAAS, Hans Joergen GAASEMYR, Stein KUHNLE and Adrian KJAER, head of the Department of Comparative Politics at Bergen University in Norway, visited our school. Professor Liu Qing, the head of the department, Professor Josef Gregory Mahoney, the head of the Political Science International Graduate Program (hereinafter referred to as the IGPP project), with Professor Wang Yishuai, Professor Yi Wei, Dr. Yu Yu and other teachers, and IGPP project administrative assistant Quan Hong received Professor Dan Oskar ENGENE at the Humanities and Social Sciences Salon of the Science Building of the ZhongBei Campus. They discussed the cooperation between the two departments on further cooperation agreements, exchange student projects and teacher exchanges.
The Department of Political Science signed an inter-institutional cooperation agreement with the Department of Comparative Politics of Bergen University in Norway in April 2014. They have always maintained close contact and many students have visited Bergen University for study. The exchange aims to further expand the cooperation mode and consolidate the existing exchange student projects.
The talks were held in the form of a round table. Prof. Josef Gregory Mahoney introduced the briefs of the IGPP project. Subsequently, the two sides discussed and exchanged specific issues such as the current situation of communication between the two departments, communication trends, existing curriculum, teacher status, mutual visit advantages and existing conditions.
Professor Jan Oskar ENGENE introduced the Bergen University Summer School project. The project started in 2008 and accepts applications from young scholars all over the world and provides a generous graduate scholarship, providing them with a good platform to expand their international horizons and discuss academic issues. Professor Jan Oskar ENGENE expressed his welcome to the students of the Department of Political Science to apply for this summer school. He also hopes that the two departments will work together in the future to launch the Sino-Norwegian International Summer School project and further promote exchanges between the two students.
Both sides eagerly expressed their desire to further substantively implement and promote the inter-system cooperation agreement between the two departments.
