The International Oriental College is a small (but growing) independent university offering academic knowledge and experience in what is called Chinese traditional, cultural and medical sciences. In short this is Chinese Medicines and Sports.
We aim to promote high class education in Chinese medicine and sports as to produce market- and academic oriented health care professionals from grassroots level such as TCM to serious investigated frontier health science in interplay with other cultural sciences such as western medicine. We are ideologically powered by the Foundation of Transcultural Education, and have our laboratory investigation as well as our apprenticeship place rooted in situ at the Yin Yang Center program, spread in locations in different countries.
Our emphasis is on Chinese Holistic and Natural medicines from Daoist, Buddhist, Shamanic and Confucian academic histories as well as traditional Chinese sports and bionomics as to complete the picture of Chinese cultural biology and its benefits for the growing world culture and the health of all people.
Our study program is the most internationalized, adventurous and academic that is currently around in traditional Chinese medicine, psychology and sports; reflecting aims of modern and traditional academic standards. It has gained us much international recognition in the more then ten years we are at work as possible. One major sign of recognition is the request to support the formation of a school in Wuhan from Chinese partners, as visible now in our program and the official and media attention our program is getting in China itself. Our grading is part independent, part supported by the Intercultural Open University Foundation, but we are in the process of developing independent recognition as the first real University of Chinese Medicines and Sports in Europe.
We follow EU guidelines about internationalization and individualization of our programs. These guidelines are accepted worldwide and will help to safeguard quality and further development of our program and programs elsewhere in Europe who can count on our support any time they ask us. Our credit system follows ECST guidelines and is applicable wherever required.
We seek continuously to find ways to make study more interesting and comfortable in spite of the difficulties of not being a government or commercially sponsored education (as yet). We do not aim to be a large sized educational institute with many buildings and thousands of students. We aim to support serious study and professional development.
We are a non-profit organisation with a small but enthusiastic staff. If anyone likes to support us with help or funds these are always welcome. We do rely on all the support we get from many directions and the love many people have over time into our organisation and publicity, for which our heartfelt thanks.
Our non-profit globalist approach
In the study of education we have seen that closing borders for information, or stopping education at cultural borders or letting economics or politics prevail over quality does over the longer time only contribute to impoverishment of the intellectual, social and economic climate.
We believe we should be world inclusive in the approach of Chinese medicine and sports education. The internationalization of ideas should not be a local issue but a global issue and therefore we seek the cooperation with and support of and for any organisation that follows similar lines of reasoning. Many small contributions will make one large one. Industry and political needs can never prevail over science and health care.
Visa support program on the behalf of our many international study friends
The long time programs invite students to take an adventurous approach to study and compartmentalize study between Amsterdam and Wuhan to provide proper visa support during the study program. The switching between location also makes specific research possible and helps to gain a wider perspective in the fields of language, Gongfu, cultural and social studies.