The ceremony for concluding a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between SPPM and Geneva School of Social Science (G3S) was successfully held at the meeting room 302 of SPPM on the afternoon of April 20.
Xue Lan, Dean of SPPM, and Bernard Debarbieux, Dean of G3S, jointly concluded the MOU between the two schools to establish a partnership including an exchange program of students pursuing a Master Program delivered by each party respectively for the academic years 2017-2019.

Within the cooperative framework, SPPM will select some of the 2017 recruits from the Master of Public Administration in International Development (MID) Program, Master of Arts in Public Policy and Management (MM) Program and Master of Public Administration (MPA) program to exchange to G3S during the third semester.
After the signing of MOU, representatives of the two schools had a productive discussion on the designing of a dual Master Program on the UN SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) starting from September 2018. As part of the Tsinghua-Geneva Initiative for the UN SDGs, this Master Program welcomes strongly motivated candidates from a broad range of backgrounds, who will gain both theoretical understanding and practical field experience that will prepare for employment on sustainable development projects.

Wu Yongping, Chairman of the School Sub-degree Committee of SPPM, Peng Zongchao, Associate Dean of SPPM, Zhu Xufeng, Associate Dean of SPPM, Yin Chengzhi, Associate Professor of SPPM, Francois Grey, Director of Geneva-Tsinghua Initiative, Susana Perdiz, Executive Coordinator of Geneva-Tsinghua Initiative and Thomas Maillart, Lab Manager for the Geneva-Tsinghua Initiative attended the conclusion ceremony.
