The Eighth European Higher Education Fair (EHEF) will take place on Nov. 7 and Nov. 8 at the Taipei World Trade Center’s Exhibition Hall 2, a statement released by the French Institute in Taipei said.
“The EHEF is the only official European higher education fair in Taiwan, and one of the largest education exhibitions in Taipei, attracting more than 10,000 visitors each year during the two-day exhibition,” the statement said. “The 2009 fair is the largest in scale since it was created in 2002.”
This year’s fair has attracted a total 76 European higher education institutions from 13 European countries — Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK — said event organizers, which include the French Institute in Taipei and the Netherlands Trade and Investment Office.
In conjunction with the fair, the EHEF Organizing Committee will also co-organize the first Taiwan-Europe Higher Education Conference with the Foundation for International Cooperation in Higher Education, with the support of the EU Centre Taiwan and National Sun Yat-sen University in Kaohsiung City.
The conference — which will include a half-day mini fair on Nov. 9 at Kaohsiung’s Ambassador Hotel and one full day information session and “matchmaking” process on Nov. 10 at National Sun Yat-Sen University — is aimed at facilitating exchanges between European and Taiwanese institutions of higher education, the organizing committee said.
The French Institute in Taipei and Campus France Taiwan will also organize the first Taiwan-France Engineering Studies Conference, which will take place on Thursday at National Cheng Kung University in Tainan County, and on Friday at National Chiao Tung University in Hsinchu County.
Ministry of Education statistics show that about 9,000 Taiwanese students chose European countries for advanced studies last year, representing a quarter of the Taiwanese studying abroad. In the last 10 years, the number of Taiwanese students in France has tripled and the number in Germany has doubled.
RSS