On the morning of Aug. 28th, Fang Lu, the Vice-President of Fudan University (FDU), and Ramon Wyss, the Vice-President of KTH Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), signed the Agreement for Cooperation of Dual Master’s Degree in the meeting room of Guanghua Building of Handan Campus in FDU. Also at the signing ceremony were Ying-fang He, Project Director of Scientific Research Office in KTH, Chou-wen Zhu, Director of Foreign Affairs Office in FDU, Yi-wei Chu, Vice-Dean of Graduate School, Ying Wang, Vice-Director of Teaching Affairs Office, Ran Liu, Yi-wei Shi, Bo Hu, Vice-Deans of School of Information Science and Technology (SIST), Yu-long Jiang, Assistant to Dean of SIST etc..

Vice-Presidents of both sides reached a consensus on the admitting requirements, teaching syllabus, educational system and credit, examinations and academic standard of graduation thesis etc. and signed Agreement for Cooperation of Dual Master’s Degree. The two sides will make detailed educational plan and curriculum provision for this international cooperative programme. The related professors from both sides will jointly make study plan for students in this programme in order that they can reach the degree-granting requirements of both sides. Students enrolled in the Dual Master’s Degree programme will take one year of study in the home university followed by another year in the host university. After fulfilling the requirements for the two masters’ degrees, students will be granted the Master of Engineering’s Degree of FDU and the Master of Science’s Degree of KTH, respectively.

FDU has been keeping a good cooperative relationship with several universities in Sweden, especially with KTH. In Mar. 8th, 2005, the Presidents of FDU and KTH signed a cooperation agreement on research and education in which the two sides decided to develop international master’s programme through KTH-FDU Joint Research Centre and FDU Sino-Swedish Campus. In 2006, the two sides signed an agreement on cooperatively running the international Master’s Degree programme in electronics, and twenty graduates of this programme have received dual master’s degree since this programme started. Meanwhile, doctors and post-doctors are sent to Sweden for exchange annually, having involved eight doctors and two post-doctors till now. More than sixty academic papers of high quality have been published jointly. On Jun. 22nd, 2010, Yu-liang Yang, President of FDU, signed the Letter of Intent Regarding the Development of Cooperation between KTH and FDU with Prof. P. Gudmundson, President of KTH, after which Prof. Ramon Wyss, Vice-President of KTH, has paid annual visits to FDU and, so does the leadership of FDU, actively promoted and implemented the cooperation between the two universities.

After signing of the Agreement for Cooperation of Dual Master’s Degree, FDU and KTH will cooperate further on the international master’s education in fields of engineering science and technology to cultivate excellent engineers with international vision and innovative minds.