Our School Signs Cooperation Agreement with Instituto Cervantes

on Internship Program

On October 10, President Yu Zujun signed the "Beijing Jiaotong University–Instituto Cervantes Cooperation Agreement on Promoting High-Quality Development of the Internship Practice Base (2025-2029)" on behalf of the University.

Instituto Cervantes was established in 1991. Headquartered in Madrid, Spain, it maintains 99 branches in 50 countries worldwide, including locations in Beijing and Shanghai, China. Operating under Spain’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, its core mission is to promote the Spanish language and cultures of Spanish-speaking countries globally.

Cooperation between our University and Instituto Cervantes began in 2018. In December 2021, the two sides signed the "Beijing Jiaotong University–Instituto Cervantes Cooperation Agreement on Establishing an Internship Practice Base (2021-2025)", making the University the first and only Chinese university to serve as a source of interns for the Instituto till now. Over the past four years, 22 groups of Spanish majors from the School of Languages and Communication Studies have successfully completed internships at the Institute’s Beijing center on Gongti South Road and received internship certificates.

The newly signed agreement extends the existing cooperation for another four years. Under this framework, the fourth-year undergraduate students of the Spanish major from our School will undertake internships in various departments of Instituto Cervantes, such as Administration, Culture, Academic Affairs, and the Library. Each side will appoint a designated internship supervisor to provide ongoing guidance to the students. The Institute will provide performance evaluations based on the students’ work and issue internship certificates to those who pass the assessment. Students who obtain the certificate will be eligible to take the DELE (Diplomas de Español Como Lengua Extranjera) exam once free of charge.

The Spanish major at our University is recognized as a National First-Class Undergraduate Major Construction Site. In talent development, the Department of Spanish consistently implements the educational philosophy of "the unity of knowledge and action" and strives to create favorable conditions for student internships. The signing of the new agreement will provide solid institutional support for continuously enhancing the quality and effectiveness of the professional internship program.