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On Wednesday, March 27, 2019 we welcomed delegates from Brunel University London to The University of Waterloo to discuss present and future collaborations between our institutions. 

Delegates from Brunel University London

Prof. Rakesh Kanda, Vice Dean International, Professor in Exposome Science, College of Health and Life Sciences

The HBO-I Foundation is an association of IT educators from a number of post-secondary institutions in the Netherlands. Twenty-five members of the foundation visited the University of Waterloo on Tuesday, March 19, 2019 to learn about IT education and career development so as to explore potential improvements to their pedagogy and infrastructure for IT education in the Netherlands. While on campus several people from various campus units and departments shared insight with the group: Co-op Education, WatPD, CEL, Computer Science, Mechatronics, Math and Engineering.

Waterloo International was proud to celebrate International Women's Day this year but hosting a table at the University's annual "International Women's Day Dinner 2019" at Federation Hall. We were happy to share the table with several of our campus partners; women leaders, stewards, and trailblazers of female international experience at the University.

Delegates from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University visited the university on Monday, January  14, 2019 to introduce their newly established Greater Bay Area International Institute for Innovation (GBA I3) and its plan to the UWaterloo senior management team.  Discussions also continued on the development of joint entrepreneurship programs between our universities.

The China University of Petroleum Beijing visited The University of Waterloo campus on Monday, November 26, 2018 to meet with the Faculty of Science to review the existing 2+2 undergrad program, sign the MOU and discuss a detailed work plan to enlarge future recruitment numbers of students from CUPB.  

Delegates from China University of Petroleum Beijing:

Prof. LI Gensheng, Vice President, International
Prof. JIN Yan, Dean of the Graduate School 
Prof. LI Yongfeng, Director of the International Office
Dr. FENG Jinyu, International Office

Delegates from Sichuan University in Chengdu, China, visited the university on Friday, November 16, 2018 to meet with UW leadership and faculties, gain mutual understanding and seek potential academic and research cooperation in fields like Liberal Arts, Math and Computer Science, Science and Engineering.

Delegates from the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) vistied the University on Monday, October 29, 2018 to strengthen the existing partnership, explore student exchange and research potential in Life Science and Engineering; and to learn more about student innovation and entrepreneurship in UW.

Delegates visited from University of Tsukuba in Japan on Monday October 22, 2018 to explore the possibility of a Campus-in-Campus (CIC) initiative between University of Waterloo and University of Tsukuba, especially in joint research, faculty, student and staff mobility.

We welcomed the Mangosuthu University of Technology (MUT) in South Africa to campus on Wednesday, October 17 and Thursday, October 18.  The MUT delegates were here to understand Work-Integrated Learning and student employability at UW, and discuss student entrepreneurship.

On Monday, October 1, 2018, the Vice President of Research at Tsinghua University in China, Qi-kun Xue visited the University of Waterloo.  He also presemted a public lecture on Transformative Quantum Technologies entitled "Physics Beyond Ohm's Law." The objective of the delegation visit was to discuss collaborations on quantum sciences and quantum technology.