During the summit of ICDE SCOP Meeting in Indonesia, 19-21 December 2014, President Jiang Hong had an inspiring and fruitful discussion with Professor Anja Oskamp, president of the Open University Netherlands, about such topics as capacity building, education resource, teacher-student communication, mutual-recognition credits and scientific research. They also signed a Strategic Cooperation Memorandum between the two universities.

Besides this, the SOU delegation for ICDE SCOP Meeting also met and exchanged ideas with IDCE Chairman, President of Universitas Terbuka, Professor Tian Belawati, President Mandla　Makhanya from the University of South Africa, Professor Belinda Tynan, Vice-President of the Open University in the United Kingdom and Lisa Daniels, Assistant President of Excelsior College.