Happy Chinese New Year! Kung Hey Fat Choi!

The Office of Academic Links would like to wish you a promising and fulfilling Year of the Goat.

With the aim of fostering knowledge exchange, Prof. Joseph Sung, Vice-Chancellor and President of CUHK, made a Fulbright lecture tour of major US universities and took part in the Russell Group – China Summit at the University of Glasgow, UK. Besides, a number of mobility schemes are open for application by faculty members and PhD students to promote international research partnerships.

• Vice-Chancellor gives Fulbright lectures and explores multi-faceted collaborations in the US
• Vice-Chancellor speaks on global health at Russell Group – China Summit
• CUHK-Sussex Cancer Science Workshop
• Internationalisation Faculty Mobility Schemes 2015-16 open for applications
• Global Scholarship Programme for Research Excellence and PhD Student Exchange Programme open for applications for 2015-16
• Faculty members awarded under the Short-term Faculty Exchange Programme 2014-15
• PhD students awarded under the PhD Student Exchange Programme 2014-15

WUN welcomed two new members as the year just begins, raising its membership to 18 universities in 10 countries. They are the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) and the University of Basel (Basel). The new partnerships will bring significant strengths and resources to the network. In April 2015, CUHK will host the WUN Public Health Global Challenge Conference on Healthy Ageing. The Conference will bring both WUN and non-WUN academics and relevant stakeholders together to explore new collaborative research opportunities and sources of funding.

• UMass Amherst and Basel join WUN
• Results of the WUN Research Development Fund 2014
• WUN Public Health Conference
• Visits from WUN member universities

This year, over 1,500 students applied to the Office of Academic Links for outgoing exchange programmes during the summer of 2015 and term time of 2015-16. Besides, CUHK welcomed more than 370 international students for their new journey in Hong Kong.

• Over 1,500 students applied for outgoing student exchange programmes 2015-16
• Welcoming new incoming exchange students
• CUHK students join UNSW business students in cultural communication master class

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) established linkages with the following institutions between 2 December 2014 and 26 February 2015:

Past visits:

• The Office of Academic Links (OAL) received 29 visiting delegations between 2 December 2014 and 26 February 2015. The delegations learnt about CUHK's teaching and research priorities and explored opportunities for collaboration with CUHK representatives.

Survey on incoming visitors:

• OAL maintains a database of incoming delegation visits and exchange agreements with non-local institutions. You may find such information useful when exploring partnership opportunities with non-local institutions. In order to help us keep an up-to-date record of international linkage activities, we encourage you to provide us with details of any visit or exchange activity by filling in the 'Record Form for Incoming Visitors'.
  

  Please return the completed form to us either by fax (2603 5402) or email (oal@cuhk.edu.hk). For more information please visit the following website: www.oal.cuhk.edu.hk/index.php/delegation-visits/survey-on-departmental-linkage-activities.

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) will take part in the following activities between 26 February and 30 April 2015:

Conferences

• APAIE Annual Conference and Exhibition 2015
• WUN Understanding Global Digital Cultures Conference
• WUN Migration Conference
• WUN Public Health Workshop (Schools sub-group)
• WUN Public Health Workshop (Resilience sub-group)
• WUN Public Health Workshop (Health Migration sub-group)
• WUN Public Health Global Challenge Conference: Healthy Ageing — Researching a Lifecourse Approach
• WUN Global China Group Symposium — China Foreign Direct Investment
• WUN Conference and AGM
• WUN Presidents Forum

Incoming visits

• Delegation visits from the University of Cambridge, University of Exeter, University of Edinburgh, University of Sussex and University of York, UK; and the Old Dominion University and University of California Education Abroad Program, USA

To submit comments or propose joint collaborations with particular institution(s), please contact the Office of Academic Links.

The following programmes are currently open for applications by faculty members and postgraduate students of CUHK:

• Internationalisation Faculty Mobility Schemes 2015-16 open for applications (Closing date: 31 March 2015)
• Clare Hall Visiting Fellowship Programme 2016-2017, University of Cambridge open for nomination (Closing date: 31 March 2015)
• Global Scholarship Programme for Research Excellence and PhD Student Exchange Programme open for applications for 2015-16 (Closing date: 24 April 2015)