Wenzhou University of Technology, University of Huelva team up on joint campus institute

Wenzhou University of Technology and Spain's University of Huelva signed an agreement on Nov. 4 to establish a joint educational institute, taking their partnership from individual programs to a standing institution.

Sun Furong, president of Wenzhou University of Technology, hailed the agreement as a milestone in the university's global outreach efforts. She said the new institute would serve as a platform for training professionals with a global outlook and strong practical skills.

María Luisa Ochoa Fernández, education counselor at the Spanish Embassy in China, praised the partnership, saying educational exchanges between China and Spain had grown steadily closer and that the embassy would continue to support cooperation between universities in the two countries.

University of Huelva President José Rodríguez Quintero outlined Huelva's history and academic strengths and said the two sides had interacted frequently with solid results. He named talent training, faculty exchanges and research collaboration as priorities.

The institute marks a shift in the two universities' cooperation from project-level exchanges to an institutional, entity-based arrangement. WZUT has in recent years expanded its international network as part of China's education opening-up and the Belt and Road Initiative.