Finnish-International Education and Training Project in Guangdong
Guangdong Provincial Publishing Group, Digital Publishing Co. has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with University of Helsinki Centre for Continuing Education HY+. The agreement concerns a cooperation to launch a Finnish-International education and training project.
The agreement was signed by Ms. Ou Biru, the General Manager of SPMDP and the CEO of University of Helsinki Centre for Continuing Education HY+, Dr. Marjaana Suutarinen, on August 14, 2018. During the completion of signing the agreement, both leaders have agreed to build and develop a long-term, successful relationships between the two companies.
The training and education projects focus on the provinces which include Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi Chinese Autonomous Region, Macau SAR and Hong Kong SAR. The agreed project also aims to offer an online teacher training programme for all the teachers in China.
The cooperation between the two parties has already begun. The signed MoU will speed up the collaboration and offering of HY+’s services in the areas appointed in the agreement.
Further information:
University of Helsinki Centre for Continuing Education HY+ is a fully owned company by the University of Helsinki. It provides continuing education and development services for organisations and individuals in Finland and abroad. Read more about HY+.
Guangdong Provincial Publishing Group Digital Publishing Co., Ltd. (SPMDP) is a state-owned enterprise, which is wholly owned by Guangdong Provincial Publishing Group and Southern Publishing and Media Company Limited (SPM). It is a professional publishing company with the Internet publishing qualifications, exclusively specializing in the business of digital education, digital reading in Guangzhou, China.
As the exclusive operating company of Guangdong edition digital textbook in China and the exclusive operating company of PEP edition digital textbook in Guangdong, SPMDP has a wide range of teacher and student users. SPMDP develops and operate the “South Cloud Education” project which is the Benchmarking project of Guangdong media convergence developmen projectt. The positioning of“South Cloud Education”is to provide the intelligent study integrated solution in which the digital textbook acted as the core. The project is aiming to promote the integrative development of education, publishing and technology.
Read the press release in Chinese here: 芬兰国际教育合作资讯