Austria educators visit NCKU to boost academic collaboration
Tainan, Taiwan, Nov. 14, 2012
A delegation of 11 official representatives of Austrian higher education institutes headed by Dr. Christoph Ramoser of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research visited National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), southern Taiwan, Nov. 13 to strengthen the partnership between NCKU and Austria academia and to discuss the prospects of future collaboration.
The delegation visited the first energy-saving and zero-carbon building in Taiwan, the Y.S. Sun Green Building Research Center in NCKU. Delegation members were impressed by the design of green roof and the technological innovations in the design of the building.
NCKU Executive Vice President Huey-Jen Jenny Su, on behalf of NCKU President Hwung-Hweng Hwung, welcomed the delegation, saying that it’s happy to have the partners from Austria after the visit of an NCKU delegation to Austria in September.
Su said NCKU is well-positioned in both Taiwan and particularly throughout the Southeast Asian region. “We’re proud to be not only top 1 or 2 in Taiwan but we also made our commitment to serving a better and greater region” she added.
Ramoser was interested in NCKU’s exchange programs, saying that the previous visit of NCKU delegation to Technical University of Vienna went so well that “there are opportunities or possibilities for new fields of cooperation which could be of interest to both sides.”
Ambassador Gerhard Goetz from Austria Taipei Office said he enjoyed the informative visit to NCKU’s green building, noting that “actually the Austria government already had green ambassador buildings in tropical countries and we try to promote green buildings in a bid to make Austria one of the most leading countries in green building technology.”
“It’s wonderful to have professors from Austria and professors from Taiwan who can see how to cooperate in this specific field and also in other fields,” added Goetz.
Prof. Arthur Mettinger from University of Applied Sciences also expressed his hope to cooperate with NCKU in green building. He had counseled V.P. Su in the meeting regarding the possibilities of further exchange of students from both universities.
His inquiry about mutual exchange programs to tackle the comparison of green buildings in Asian and European countries had received positive responses from NCKU.
“NCKU green building curriculum is organized for both full-time degree students and master and doctoral students as well. The curriculum is also organized for professionals who are already in practice,” said Su, and she noted that competitive English materials are available in the forum which will help international student exchanges.
“We’d like to see our students to be exposed to European culture where we made very intensive efforts to facilitate their outgoing experiences in your part of the world and at the same time we’d like to see many more students from your country coming to our country,” added Su.
“NCKU has one of the largest and highest percentages of international students represented by more than 60 countries in our student bodies and there’s a huge rise over the past 8 years or so,” according to Su.
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A delegation of 11 official representatives of Austrian higher education institutes headed by Dr. Christoph Ramoser of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research visited National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), southern Taiwan, Nov. 13 to strengthen the partnership between NCKU and Austria academia and to discuss the prospects of future collaboration.
The delegation visited the first energy-saving and zero-carbon building in Taiwan, the Y.S. Sun Green Building Research Center in NCKU. Delegation members were impressed by the design of green roof and the technological innovations in the design of the building.
NCKU Executive Vice President Huey-Jen Jenny Su, on behalf of NCKU President Hwung-Hweng Hwung, welcomed the delegation, saying that it’s happy to have the partners from Austria after the visit of an NCKU delegation to Austria in September.
Su said NCKU is well-positioned in both Taiwan and particularly throughout the Southeast Asian region. “We’re proud to be not only top 1 or 2 in Taiwan but we also made our commitment to serving a better and greater region” she added.
Ramoser was interested in NCKU’s exchange programs, saying that the previous visit of NCKU delegation to Technical University of Vienna went so well that “there are opportunities or possibilities for new fields of cooperation which could be of interest to both sides.”
Ambassador Gerhard Goetz from Austria Taipei Office said he enjoyed the informative visit to NCKU’s green building, noting that “actually the Austria government already had green ambassador buildings in tropical countries and we try to promote green buildings in a bid to make Austria one of the most leading countries in green building technology.”
“It’s wonderful to have professors from Austria and professors from Taiwan who can see how to cooperate in this specific field and also in other fields,” added Goetz.
Prof. Arthur Mettinger from University of Applied Sciences also expressed his hope to cooperate with NCKU in green building. He had counseled V.P. Su in the meeting regarding the possibilities of further exchange of students from both universities.
His inquiry about mutual exchange programs to tackle the comparison of green buildings in Asian and European countries had received positive responses from NCKU.
“NCKU green building curriculum is organized for both full-time degree students and master and doctoral students as well. The curriculum is also organized for professionals who are already in practice,” said Su, and she noted that competitive English materials are available in the forum which will help international student exchanges.
“We’d like to see our students to be exposed to European culture where we made very intensive efforts to facilitate their outgoing experiences in your part of the world and at the same time we’d like to see many more students from your country coming to our country,” added Su.
“NCKU has one of the largest and highest percentages of international students represented by more than 60 countries in our student bodies and there’s a huge rise over the past 8 years or so,” according to Su.
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