Time

Activities

00:00-24:00

Attendance registration

Check-in at the hotel

15:30-17:00

LTU Student Program Promotion Session

15:30-17:00

LTU Council Meeting

Ø Review the applications of new LTU members;

Ø Preliminary vote on next rotating chair unit;

Ø Review the League of Tropical Universities Development Report (2026);

Ø Review the Collection of Science and Technology Transfer Projects of the League of Tropical Universities (2^nd Edition);

Ø Discuss other major LTU-related issues.

17:30-19:00

Dinner

19:00-21:30

Introduction to LTU Members & Prospects for Future Cooperation

Day 2  Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Time

Activities

07:30-08:45

Breakfast

09:00-10:25

Opening Ceremony

Venue: Gymnasium of HNU

Moderators: Ms. Zhang Meng, Mr. Zheng Peng

Ø Moderator gives welcome remarks and introduces the new members

Ø Remarks by (Moderator: Mr. LI Hu, Chair of the HNU Council)

1) Official of Hainan Provincial People’s Government;

2) Official of China’s Ministry of Education;

3) Mr. Dileita Mohamed Dileita, Speaker of the National Assembly of Djibouti (video remarks, TBD);

4) SE Ms Emmanuel née ADOUKI Delphine Edith, Minister of Higher Education, Research, and Technological Innovation of the Republic of the Congo;

5) Dr. H. Anwar Hafid, M.Si., Governor of Central Sulawesi Province, Republic of Indonesia;

6) H. E. Som Ratana, Under Secretary of State, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of Cambodia;

7) Mr. Thanawat Tiensin, Assistant Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (video remarks, TBD);

8) Prof. Shahbaz Khan, Director of the UNESCO Office in Beijing and UNESCO Representative to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Japan, Mongolia, People’s Republic of China, and the Republic of Korea (video remarks);

9) Prof. Kenneth Kamwi Matengu, Vice Chancellor of the University of Namibia and President of the Association of African Universities (TBD);

10) Prof. Luo Qingming, Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, President of HNU.

Ø LTU Achievement Release

1) Launch ceremony for the Tropilearn MOOC platform;

2) Unveiling ceremony of Overseas Science and Technology Backyards;

3) Release the League of Tropical Universities Development Report 2026 and the Collection of Science and Technology Transfer Projects of the League of Tropical Universities (2^nd Volume);

4) Launch ceremony of the International Alumni Associations (TBD);

5) Book donation ceremony of the Xi Jinping: the Governance of China;

6) Launch ceremony of Hainan Culture Exchange Program for LTU Youth;

7) Signing ceremony of agreements.

Ø Rotating Chair Institution Handover Ceremony

10:25-10:30

Group Photo and Tea Break

10:30-12:00

President Panel Talk

Theme: Digitalization of Education

Moderator: Prof. LIU Qian, Vice President of HNU

Venue: Gymnasium of HNU

Specific Topics: Educational Transformation in the Digital Intelligence Era, Digital Education Governance in the Tropics, Reshaping Teachers' Roles and Capacity Building in the Digital Intelligence Era, Digital Intelligence Empowering Personalized Lifelong Learning, Digital Literacy and Leadership, Opportunities and Challenges for Tropical Cooperation in the Wave of Digital Intelligence

12:00-13:30

Lunch

14:30-17:50

Ø Parallel Session 1: Forum on Science and Technology for Sustainable Tropical Palm Industry

Ø Parallel Session 2: Forum on AI for One Health

Ø Parallel Session 3: Forum on Tropical Marine Ecology and Sustainability

Ø Parallel Session 4: Forum for Civilizational Dialogue and Tropical Collaboration

Ø Parallel Session 5: Forum on Tropical Marine Engineering Materials and Energy Materials

18:30-20:00

Welcome Reception

Day 3  Thursday, May 21, 2026

Time

Activities

All Day

Group Tour and Themed Seminars

1. Haikou: Tourism management, international business, medicine, food science, etc.

2. Danzhou: Tropical Agriculture, etc.

3. Yazhou, Sanya: Brain science, biomedical engineering, deep sea technology, seed breeding, etc.

19:00-20:30

Dinner

Day 4  Friday, May 22, 2026

Time

Activities

Morning

Discussion and Exchange between LTU members and relevant schools of Hainan University

Afternoon

Departure