Promising Prospects for International Cooperation. NCWU has a long history of international cooperation. Since 1958, it has begun to accept international students and assisted in the construction of Vietnam University of Water Resources and Hydropower. In recent years, NCWU has paid more attention to international cooperation and exchanges, implemented the strategy of activating NCWU by opening-up, and constantly improved the strength of school running and internationalization. It has signed cooperation agreements with high level universities all over the world, including Swinburne University of Technology in Australia, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis in France, Teesside University in the UK, Keimyung University in Korea, Ural Federal University in Russia and so on, to carry out Sino-foreign cooperation in school running. NCWU has actively integrated into the BRICS higher education exchange and cooperation system, and become the leading university in the field of water resources and pollution control and the field of energy in the BRICS Network University. It has established the “Water Engineering and Energy Research Center of BRICS Network University and BRICS University Alliance” with Ural Federal University, the Sino-Russian High-speed Railway Research Center with St. Petersburg State Transport University, and the Logistics Engineering Research Center with Inha University in Korea. NCWU-Ural Institute, the first cooperative schooling institution under the BRICS Network University system, has been approved by the Ministry of Education and officially begun to enroll students. It became a major breakthrough achievement in the opening up of education in Henan Province. The year 2019 has witnessed fruitful achievements of the international cooperation of NCWU. It was recognized by European Union as a partner university and approved by National Energy Administration of China to be a member of APEC Energy Cooperation Partner Network. And its Confucius Institute was successfully established in University College of Technology Sarawak.
学校国际合作历史悠久，1958年起开始接收留学生，对口援建越南水利水电大学。近年来，学校更加注重国际合作交流，实施开放活校战略，不断提升办学实力和国际化水平，相继与澳大利亚斯威本科技大学、法国尼斯大学、英国提赛德大学、韩国启明大学、俄罗斯乌拉尔联邦大学等世界高水平大学签署合作协议，开展中外合作办学。积极融入金砖国家高等教育交流合作体系，成为“金砖国家网络大学”水资源与污染治理、能源两个领域的牵头高校。与俄罗斯乌拉尔联邦大学设立了“金砖国家网络大学·金砖国家大学联盟水工程与能源研究中心”，与俄罗斯圣彼得堡国立交通大学联合设立了中俄高铁研究中心，与韩国仁荷大学共同设立了物流工程研究中心。金砖国家网络大学体系下第一个合作办学机构-华北水利水电大学乌拉尔学院获教育部批准，并实现正式招生；成为河南省教育对外开放的重大突破性成果。2019年，学校被欧盟认证为合作伙伴大学；经国家能源局批准，成为APEC能源合作伙伴网络成员单位；在马来西亚砂拉越科技大学设立孔子学院，对外办学取得新成绩。