On December 6, Tomasz Pietrzykowski, Vice President of the University of Silesia, led a four-person delegation to BJUT. Wu Bin, Vice President of BJUT, met the group. Relevant heads from the International Office and College of International Education also joined.

Vice President Wu expressed a warm welcome to Vice President Pietrzykowski and the delegation. He introduced BJUT, mentioning its international development strategy and the progress of the“Double First-class” initiative, as well as  summarizing the first “Belt and Road” Sino-Polish University Consortium Art Festival and Art＆Design Competition. He hoped that the two universities would further expand the depth and breadth of exchanges, continuously strengthen cooperation in student communication and promote the and construction of Confucius classrooms. He extended an invitation to University of Silesia faculty to visit BJUT and invited the University of Silesia to participate in the first “Belt and Road” Sino-Polish University Consortium Academic Forum, to be hosted by BJUT in 2019.

Vice President Pietrzykowski expressed his gratitude to BJUT for its welcome. He introduced University of Silesia programmes, school structure and international exchanges. He said that BJUT was one of their most important partners and that the two parties were highly complementary in terms of programmes and training. He was impressed by the seed-fund project. He expressed the hope that the two universities would gradually expand their cooperation to the field of engineering, further strengthen both short and long-term student exchange, actively promote academic exchange and deepen cooperative partnerships in computer science, economic management, humanities and social sciences.

After the meeting, Vice Presidents Wu and Pietrzykowski signed an student exchange agreement which potentially allowed for one or two semester exchange in the fields of computer science, environmental protection, social science and foreign languages. Students from both universities may also be able to participate in summer camps organized by the two universities.

Founded on June 8, 1968, the University of Silesia is one of the largest comprehensive universities in Poland. It has four campuses, located in Katowice, Sosnowiec, Chorzów and Szczecin. It has 12 faculties, including and music, biological and environmental protection, folklore and pedagogy, linguistics, information and materials science, mathematics, physics and chemistry, earth sciences, sociology, teaching methodology and psychology, law and administration, media and television, and theology. The university has a total of 26,000 undergraduate, postgraduate, doctoral and adult students. In July 2018, BJUT sent a 30 students to the University of Silesia in Poland to carry on a  one-month summer exchange.