(For visiting faculty from Sweden)

CUHK and the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT) cooperate in STINT’s Teaching Sabbatical Programme (formerly known as the STINT Programme for Excellence in Teaching). Each year CUHK hosts up to two STINT Fellows who spend a full first term teaching or co-teaching a course in a discipline close to their own as well as engaging in research. This serves as a good opportunity for the host departments at CUHK to exchange teaching experience and research findings with the Swedish scholars. In addition, CUHK students are able to receive teaching from Swedish scholars without having to go to Sweden.

Under the programme, STINT will cover all expenses incurred by the Fellows, while OAL will help arrange accommodation during their stay in Hong Kong. The host departments and the Human Resources Office at CUHK will be responsible for making other necessary arrangements including visa, office space, and other institutional courtesies.

The host departments should be prepared to engage the Fellow(s) in a range of formal and informal activities of the department so as to welcome the Fellow(s) and to forge deep exchanges in teaching and research with the Fellow(s). Invitations to activities beyond the department, including those organized by the Faculty and research centres, should also be extended to the Fellow(s) to facilitate meaningful engagement.

Applications are invited on an annual basis. For more information, please refer to the STINT website.

Sharing from STINT Fellows

• 2016-17: Prof. Helena Francke, University of Boras (link)
• 2018-19: Dr. Markus Langeland, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Dr. Monir Mazaheri, The Swedish Red Cross University College; and Dr. Jesús Piqueras, Stockholm University (link)
• 2019-20: Dr. Sebastian Mohr, Karlstad University (link)
• 2021-22: Prof. Mikael Carlsson, Stockholm University and Prof. Erik Olsson, Uppsala University (link)
• 2022-23: Prof. BethAnne Paulsrud, Dalarna University (link)
• 2023-24: Prof. Cecilia Engstrom-Mattisson, University of Gothenburg and Prof. Ethan Nowak, Umea University (link)
• 2024-25: Prof. Ata Ghaderi, Karolinska Institutet (link)
• 2025-26: Prof. Lena Liepe, Linnaeus University (link)