Advantages
GAFA has forgedclose ties with more than 50 fine arts colleges from countries and regionsaround the globe, including the Great Britain, France, Russia, Canada, theUnited States, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Japan, South Korea,Thailand, and Taiwan of China. Its sister universities include the GlasgowSchool of Art, I.E. Repin St.-Petersburg State Academic Institute for Painting,Sculpture and Architecture, V.I. Surikov Moscow State Academic Art Institute,the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp of Belgium, Zurich University of theArts, L’École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs – Paris, University ofToronto, Chiba University, Tokyo University of the Arts, National TaipeiUniversity of the Arts. It has been a common practice for GAFA to arrangeexcellent teachers and students to study, exchange or conduct academicresearches in other countries or regions, set up exchange programs andcooperative training programs with overseas sister universities, launchinternational workshops and lectures, high-level art and design exhibitions,and high-level international academic seminars, and invite renowned overseasexperts and scholars to hold lectures and academic conferences. GAFA also vigorously promotes education for international students, advances cooperationin running schools with high-level international universities in an orderlyfashion, actively expands the opening of higher education to the outside worldto enhance the internationalization of its education programs. Based on itsacademic and disciplinary advantages, GAFA plays an active role in the culturalexchange programs between China an other countries. By presenting its academicresearch achievements and the excellent works of its faculty members and studentsto the outside world, GAFA is dedicated to telling China story well and havingthe country’s voice heard.
