HIT News (Officeof Global Affairs, Shenzhen/ text)Recently, the Ministry of Education officially issued a document agreeing that our institute and Zurich University of the Arts in Switzerland should cooperate to set up a Sino-foreign cooperatively-run school, namely, the Shenzhen International School of Design. Thisschool is affiliated to Harbin Institute of Technology and is a Chinese-foreign cooperative education institution without legal personality.
Shenzhen International School of Design (HIT) is the first international school-running project to land in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area and Shenzhen Pilot Demonstration Zones after the implementation of the Pilot Implementation Plan for Comprehensive Reform of Shenzhen Pilot Demonstration Zones for Building Socialism with Chinese Characteristics (2020-2025). It will help Shenzhen to become a capital of innovation, entrepreneurship and creativity with global influence. At the same time, as the first approved Sino-foreign cooperatively-run school in HIT, the school will also become an important platform for HIT to train international design elites and gather international research results, boosting HIT’s development in the new century and building HIT into a world-class university.
Zurich University of the Arts in Switzerland is one of the most comprehensive art universities in Europe, ranking in the top 50 in art and design disciplines among universities around the world. Shenzhen International School of Design has both outstanding international training characteristics and innovative advantages of science and technology as well as creativity. In the early days, three undergraduate majors in industrial design, digital media art and architecture and three master majors in design, architecture and urban and rural planning will be launched, aiming at training compound talents with international vision and interdisciplinary innovation ability. It is planned that the school will accommodate 1,200 full-time students and 20% of them will be international students.
In July 2015, under the auspices of Shenzhen Municipal Government, HIT and Zurich University of the Arts in Switzerland jointly signed a pact on cooperation in running schools. Through the international design competition hosted by Shenzhen Municipal Construction Affairs Bureau, French architects becameultimate winners and was responsible for a total area of more than 110,000 square meters. On July 28, 2020, Shenzhen International School of Design (HIT)held athe ground-breaking ceremony.
