On the morning of October 26, a delegation led by Robert Wood, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta (UA), Canada, visited CUEB.They met with representatives from the School of Artificial Intelligence, and signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) for cooperation in the Tianlang Hall, Boyuan Building. Li Kunpeng, Member of the Standing Committee of the CUEB Party Committee, Vice President and Dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence, presided over the meeting.

On behalf of CUEB and the School of Artificial Intelligence, Li Kunpeng welcomed the delegation and thanked both teams for their efforts in advancing cooperation. He noted that the two universities have laid a solid foundation through previous collaborations. He hoped both sides could fully leverage interdisciplinary strengths and explore new pathways for interdisciplinary personnel training. He stated that the two universities should further strengthen communication, coordinate efforts in personnel training, teaching organization and quality assurance, and promotefaculty and student exchanges as well as academic interaction through pragmatic cooperation.

Robert Wood thanked CUEB for its warm reception, spoke highly of the two universities’ new explorations in interdisciplinary fields, and introduced the Faculty of Arts at the UA.

During the meeting, both sides conducted in-depth discussions on personnel training, curriculum articulation, teaching organization and quality assurance, and signed LOI for cooperation.

After the meeting, the delegation visited the School History Museum, Expert Apartments, the Interdisciplinary Center for Language Big Data and New Liberal Arts, and the InnoFusion Smart Valley. They learned about the university’s development history and relevant school-running conditions.

Representatives from UA’s Faculty of Arts, alongside staff from CUEB’s School of Artificial Intelligence and the Office of International Cooperation and Exchange, attended the exchange and signing ceremony.

This visit deepens mutual understanding and trust and lays a foundation for deepening pragmatic cooperation and expanding areas of collaboration. Looking ahead, CUEB will uphold its open-door education philosophy. It will enhance personnel training and discipline building through high-quality international cooperation, actively explore broader cooperation with the UA in education and teaching, scientific research, and faculty and student exchanges, advance inter-university cooperation to greater depth and higher standards, and contribute to higher education exchanges between China and Canada, as well as young personnel training in both countries.