爱尔兰中文教育：都柏林大学孔子学院庆祝成立20周年，小学中文项目启动
爱尔兰都柏林大学孔子学院9月25日举行成立20周年庆典，200多名嘉宾出席，庆典上正式启动小学中文教育项目，把中文和中国文化课程送进更多爱尔兰小学的课堂。
出席庆典的包括都柏林大学校长Orla Feely、爱尔兰前驻华大使Declan Kelleher和Paul Kavanagh等嘉宾。中国人民大学校长Ma Huaide通过视频致辞。
据外交部网站10月8日消息，出席庆典的驻爱尔兰大使Zhao Xiyuan表示，成立20周年是孔子学院发展的一个重要里程碑。20年来，学院持续推进国际中文教育，为中国和爱尔兰青年之间的对话搭建桥梁，为两国人文交流作出了贡献。他希望学院在此基础上继续创新，为中爱文明互学互鉴和两国友好合作作出新的贡献。
Feely校长表示，教育是连接人心的桥梁。她说，孔子学院在中文教育和中国文化教学上的持续努力，帮助中国和爱尔兰两国人民走得更近。
庆典上，孔子学院正式启动小学中文教育项目，把中文教育和中国文化课程扩展到更多爱尔兰少年儿童。
来源：外交部网站
Ireland: UCD Confucius Institute Marks 20th Anniversary and Launches Primary School Chinese Programme
The Confucius Institute at University College Dublin (UCD) held a celebration on September 25 marking its 20th anniversary, attended by more than 200 guests, and used the occasion to officially launch a Primary School Chinese Language Education Programme that will extend Chinese-language teaching to more young people in Ireland.
Guests included UCD President Orla Feely and former Irish ambassadors to China Declan Kelleher and Paul Kavanagh. Ma Huaide, President of Renmin University of China, delivered a video address.
According to the Foreign Ministry website's report on October 8, Ambassador Zhao Xiyuan, who attended the celebration with his wife, said the 20th anniversary was an important milestone in the institute's development. Over the past 20 years, he said, the institute had made sustained efforts to advance international Chinese-language education, served as a bridge for dialogue among young people from China and Ireland, and contributed to people-to-people exchanges between the two countries.
President Feely said education serves as a bridge connecting people's hearts and minds. She noted that the institute's sustained work in Chinese-language education and the teaching of Chinese culture had helped bring the people of China and Ireland closer together.
At the celebration, the institute officially launched its Primary School Chinese Language Education Programme, extending Chinese-language education and courses on Chinese culture to more young people in Ireland.
Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs website
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图片来源：图：都柏林大学校园。照片：Tara Towers Hotel，CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。Photo: The University College Dublin campus. Photo: Tara Towers Hotel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
