The very first graduates from the Sino-Danish Centre for Education and Research in Beijing have now completed their studies.
29 graduates from the four programmes ‘MSc in Water and Environment’, ‘an MSc in Neuroscience and Neuroimaging’, ‘MSc in Innovation Management’ and ‘MSocSC in Public Management and Social Development’ are now leaving the Sino-Danish Centre for Education and Research (SDC).
DTU is involved in a total of five study programmes at the centre, and is primarily responsible for the programme ‘Chemical and biochemical Engineering’.
Out of the 29 graduates, 17 are from China and 12 from Denmark while a further 65 are expected to graduate from the centre later in the summer.
SDC offers MSc and PhD programmes for both Chinese and Danish students, and in September 2012 launched four MSc programmes in China and another three in 2013.
Since SDC opened its doors to undergraduates in 2012, around 240 MSc students from both China and Denmark have commenced their studies at the centre.
Over the course of 2013, a total of 275 Danish researchers and lecturers spent a period corresponding to 27 FTEs in China, distributed between teaching on the MSc courses and participating in research activities in collaboration with their Chinese colleagues. In addition, there are more than 50 PhD students from Denmark alone spending a minimum of six months in China.
Sino-Danish Centre for Education and Research is a partnership involving the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science, DTU and the seven other Danish universities, the University of the Chinese Academy of Science and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The centre opened in 2010 and will provide the framework for a closer working relationship between Danish and Chinese research and teaching environments.
SDC currently offers MSc programmes in the following areas: