The joint organization of an undergraduate English-language study program aimed at Chinese students is being worked out by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and China’s Shandong Agricultural University (SDAU).

The prospect was examined in Thessaloniki, where a five-member delegation of the SDAU, led by its president, Prof Xu Jianbomet with the Rector of AUTH, prof. Dimitris Kovaio.

Specifically, the possibility of participating in the English-speaking joint program of professors of the Department of Agriculture of AUTH was discussed.

On the part of AUTH, the President of the Department of Agriculture, Professor Stefanos Koundouras, the Vice-President Professor Pantazis Georgiou and the Professor of the Department of Agriculture and Vice-President of the International Relations Committee of AUTH, Thomas Kotsopoulos, participated in the meeting.

It is recalled that Aristotle University has signed Memorandum of Scientific Cooperation with Shandong Agricultural University, in 2021. Within the framework of the Memorandum, exchanges of professors and researchers, as well as research collaborations, are envisaged, among other things.

Shandong Agricultural University was founded in 1906 and has a long history of 117 years. Today, 38,967 undergraduate students and 5,579 postgraduate and doctoral students study at SDAU.