The 4th South China Sea-themed Summer Camp is going to be held in Taiwan from 2-9 August 2015. Co-organized by the National Institute for South China Sea Studies, Academia Sinica and Taiwan Ocean University, it has engaged 30 participants across the Strait and from abroad. They are majoring in international law, law of the sea, diplomacy, politics, maritime affairs, life science, etc, coming from over ten colleges and universities such as Tsinghua University, Peking University, Zhejiang University, Wuhan University, Nanjing University, Dalian Maritime University, Taiwan University, Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan Chengchi University and Queen's University.

On August 3, the summer camp kicked start at the Academia Sinica. Yann-Huei Song, research fellow of the Institute of European and American Studies, presided over the opening ceremony. Ching-Fong Chang, president of Taiwan Ocean University, addressed the opening ceremony and remarked that the South China Sea-themed summer camp laid a platform for exchanges between young students across the Strait, expanded opportunities for Chinese mainland and Taiwan to jointly handle the intensifying South China Sea issues and played a positive role in promoting academic cooperation and fostering marine talents across the  Strait.

The eight-day summer camp has an informative curriculum and a tight schedule. The organizers have invited prominent professors and officials in the fields of international law, international relations, marine biology and marine archaeology who will hold seminars for the students. As part of the field studies, the students will visit various sites such as maritime museum, center for marine science, Keelung harbor and aquaculture center.

The South China Sea-themed Summer Camp is designed to help college students across the Strait to get better understandings of South China Sea issues, inspire talents in maritime research, and deepen exchanges among the students across the Strait. Since it was launched in 2012 in Haikou, the summer camp has been held alternately in Taiwan and Chinese mainland, and has been making positive contributions to fostering talents in maritime studies. Nearly 200 college students across the Strait have attended the summer camp.