To promote academic exchanges with the Baltic countries, National Sun Yat-sen University formed a delegation of 26 members from diverse disciplines to Latvia and Lithuania for a 10-day academic exchange trip. The delegation, led by President Ying-Yao Cheng, visited the University of Latvia and the Institute of Solid State Physics and attended the National Day banquet hosted by Taiwan's representative office in Latvia.
After the visit in Latvia, the delegation moved to Lithuania for further exchanges, visiting Vilnius University, Kaunas University of Technology, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, and National Research Center. The delegates also attended the National Day reception hosted by Taiwan's representative office in Lithuania. The delegation returned to Taiwan on the 15th after completing a successful scientific and technological mission of diplomacy.
NSYSU and the University of Latvia became sister universities in 2009. NSYSU students have gone to UL on the exchange, but no Latvian students have come to NSYSU over the years. On the research side, NSYSU's cooperation with the Institute of Solid State Physics at UL has been fruitful. The "Taiwan and Baltic National Physics Research Center" was jointly established in 2020 to work in solid-state physics research.
