The OUC-Putuo Oral English Project is a cooperative project between the Faculty of Education at Oslo University College, Norway (Høgskolen i Oslo), and the Bureau of Education in the Putuo District, Zhoushan City, Zhejiang Province, China, in the field of TEFL, Teaching English as a Foreign Language.

The project came into being in 2004, after initial contacts between Professor Trond Storebakken of UMB (Norwegian University of Life Sciences), Foreign Affairs Director Shen Cong of the People's Government in the Putuo District and the Department of English at the Faculty of Education, Oslo University College (Høgskolen i Oslo).

The initial contact was triggered by a deep-felt need in Putuo to develop their students' English speaking skills, at a time when contacts with other parts of the world were expanding. The district authorities wished to invite Norwegian teachers of English as volunteers to help develop and improve oral English in upper secondary (senior high) schools. Since then, the project has developed rapidly into a complex and multifaceted one, including teaching practice opportunities for Norwegian students of English in junior middle schools in Putuo, mutual exchange visits for authorities and teaching staff and, not least, workshops targeting oral English for Putuo teachers in primary and lower secondary (junior middle) schools.

For their work with the education sector in the Putuo District, Tove Kvil and Mona E. Flognfeldt of Oslo University College have been awarded the coveted Annual West Lake Friendship Award of 2006 and 2007, respectively, presented by the People's Government of Zhejiang Province.