The University of St.Gallen has a long record of academic activities and connections in Singapore. Exchange programs between St.Gallen and Singapore are mutually beneficial. Faculty from St.Gallen visits Singapore to teach and do research. Likewise, professors from Singapore give lectures regularly in St.Gallen. The SGI fully complies with and endeavours to realize, for its share, the Vision of its parent University. The Vision of the University of St.Gallen stresses as aims to encourage intellectual openness for the questions of our world, to cultivate integrative thinking, and to encourage entrepreneurial spirit as well as the acceptance of responsibility.