Beijing Normal University

Beijing Normal University (BNU), abbreviated as "BNU" in Chinese, is directly affiliated with the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, holding a vice-ministerial level institutional ranking under central management. It is listed in the "211 Project" and "985 Project," and has been selected for the national "Everest Plan," "2011 Plan," "111 Plan," and the "Outstanding Legal Talent Education and Cultivation Plan." It has a graduate school and is a comprehensive national key university primarily characterized by teacher education, educational science, and basic disciplines in liberal arts and sciences. The Advanced Innovation Center for Future Education is a secondary unit under Beijing Normal University, one of the first batch of high-precision innovation centers supported by the Beijing Municipal Government. It serves the construction of Beijing's national science and technology innovation center and the adjustment of the "high-precision and advanced" industrial structure. It is a high-level international innovation platform with education technology innovation as its core, acting as a bridgehead for scientific and technological system and mechanism reform and innovation. The center's core mission is to advance the transformation of public education services in the internet era from digitalization to intelligence, based on big data, using an internet-plus approach to support deepening comprehensive reforms in education, build new models of intelligent public education services, and support the realization of the Chinese educational dream of "education for all without discrimination, individualized instruction, lifelong learning, and everyone becoming a talent." The center actively promotes the transformation of basic education from standardized education in the classroom to a personalized, precise, and diversified education system integrating online and offline, from achieving equity in allocation and opportunity to achieving equity in access, and from a single government-run education supply to an open schooling model with a diversified, multi-channel supply. It comprehensively explores innovative education business forms and governance solutions in the era of mobile internet, and on this basis, explores the development direction of future education and future schools. The center brings together renowned professors and top intellectual resources from Beijing Normal University in fields such as educational technology, subject education, educational psychology, and information technology. Through various methods like dual appointments, full-time appointments, part-time appointments, and project collaborations, it gathers talent from different fields, meeting the needs of the center's multiple research activities. It also collaborates with top universities such as Stanford University in the U.S. and the University of Helsinki in Finland, establishing the China-Finland Joint Learning Innovation Institute, the Siegler Innovation Learning Research Center, and the Education Big Data Research Center. It proactively initiates international cooperation projects themed "2030 Future School" and "AI Teachers," conducting in-depth cooperation with researchers from nearly twenty universities in countries such as the U.S., the U.K., Finland, Canada, and Singapore, introducing international intellectual resources to serve the development of education in China.