TNUA and the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin) have signed an agreement to become sister schools.
The signing of the agreement was completed during TNUA President Prof. Yang Chyi Wen’s visit to UdK Berlin, one of the schools he visited during his two-week trip in Europe this summer.
Prof. Yang and Prof. Martin Rennert, the UdK Berlin president who had visited TNUA in 2015, also discussed future cooperation and exchanges between the two universities.
Prof. Yang, accompanied by TNUA Prof. Jun-Jieh Wang, chief director of the Center for Art and Technology, and Prof. Constance Kuo-Yuan Lee from the Department of Music, le for the Europe visit on June 18.
e schools they visited during the trip in Europe were: the Amsterdam University of the Arts; the University of the Arts Utrecht; the Folkwang University of the Arts; the Berlin University of the Arts; the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin; the Zurich University of the Arts;Conservatoire de Lyon; and Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Lyon.
For some of the schools, the visits represented their rst- ever contacts with TNUA, Prof. Yang said, stressing that it will help expand TNUA’s exchange activities and its international visibility.
Although the visits to Conservatoire de Lyon and Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Lyon in France were not yet on the official school-to-school level, the meetings were warm and meaningful.