CCTC – Berlin
CCTC – China Competence Training Center
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China has developed into a central player in international politics, business and science, which Berlin's universities and Charité are also increasingly encountering. Among two groups of people in Berlin's higher education landscape, major challenges in cooperation with China have become apparent in recent years: on the one hand, among administrative staff who are dedicated to knowledge and technology transfer and support researchers in cooperation projects, and on the other hand, among young scientists who conduct research on China-related topics or cooperate with Chinese partners.
For these groups, a China Competence Training Center (CCTC) is, therefore, necessary to equip them with the necessary China competence to maximize the benefits of cooperation with China while minimizing potential risks, handling cooperation professionally, and ensuring high-quality research activities. In addition, the CCTC should stimulate an evidence-based dialogue on complex China-related issues among a broad public interested in China, in order to counter limited perceptions of China among Berlin decision-makers with the results of current research.
Contact
Humboldt University Berlin
Project Lead: Volker Hofmann
ChiKoBo – Konstanz
ChiKoBo – China Competence Center Lake Constance
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The China Competence Center Lake Constance (ChiKoBo), in cooperation with regional partners, promotes the development of China competences at universities in the region through measures in 4 areas:
- Organisation of a cross-institutional regional China-network among universities of applied sciences (HAW) in Baden-Württemberg in cooperation with HAW BW e.V. (24 member universities) with the aim of promoting the exchange of experiences in China cooperation at HAWs and the bundling of measures to develop and expand China competence. The ChiKoBo advises the network partners in the implementation of China competence projects and offers cooperative China competence training courses (for doctoral/master students at HAWs, further training staff).
- Strengthening of the European exchange of experience on China competences and China cooperation in science and research in Germany, Liechtenstein, Austria and Switzerland through the establishment of a China working group among member universities of the EVTZmbH Science Association Vierländerregion Bodensee (formerly Internationale Bodenseehochschule/IBH) with the focus on national strategies of scientific China cooperation as well as digital methods in cooperation and teaching.
- Further development of existing formats for China competence training at the HTWG Konstanz (approach 'get_connected') with a new focus on the use of digital content and teaching formats as well as development of related working materials/modules for China competence training courses for different target groups.
- Knowledge transfer through the publication of working materials/modules and the training for teaching these modules ('training of trainers'). Documenting the project results and forstering information exchange via close contacts also to other national/international China networks.
Contact
HTWG Konstanz - University of Applied Sciences (Hochschule Konstanz Technik, Wirtschaft und Gestaltung)
Project Lead: Prof. Dr. Gabriele Thelen
Website
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ChiKoN – Kiel
ChiKoN – China Competence in the North
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The (further) development and spread of knowledge about China is a necessary building block for the future development of science and economy in the north (Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Hamburg Bremen and Niedersachsen), including our neighboring country Denmark. At Kiel University and the Kiel Institute for World Economy, specific China competence has been built up for decades. Based on its regional strengths and experiences at Kiel University, our project aims at identifying institutions and individuals with China competence and establishing a sustainable network between relevant stakeholders throughout the North.
At the same time, China competence and Chinese language training courses are developed and provided for administrative staff and young academics within the university, as well as for employees in public administration, in cities as well as in rural areas, in educational institutions, and in the realm of business and politics. The aim is not only to transfer China-related knowledge, but also to create space for reflection on one's own China-related cultural imprints as Europeans. The training modules developed will be tested within our transregional network - with the aim to offer the training modules as a regular certificate program and to develop it further for additional target audiences in the realm of business, politics and municipal administration in cooperation with our partners.
Contact
Kiel University
Project Lead: Prof. Dr. Angelika Messner
Website
Link to the website of the China Centre at Kiel University (project website under construction)
ChinaHub – Bayreuth
ChinaHub – Academic China Knowledge and Experience Network
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The aim of the Academic China Knowledge and Experience Network (China Hub) in Bavaria is to expand both personnel and institutional China competence in the Bavarian higher education landscape. The China Hub is based primarily on three measures:
- An innovative and interactive event format (Open Space), which networks academic actors as co-creators and regularly identifies the information and knowledge needs for academic cooperation with the People's Republic of China in the Bavarian region and can thus react dynamically to changes.
- The transfer of target group-specific China knowledge within the framework of trainings and expert workshops based on the current needs for the development of individual and institutional China competence at Bavarian universities, which were identified through the Open Space events.
- The establishment of a regional communication network or a regional China knowledge management platform in addition to the various, mostly university-specific, established channels, through which offers on China knowledge, experience and information are made accessible to a broader target group.
Contact
University of Bayreuth
Project Lead: Philipp Dengel
Website
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ChinakomMitt – Marburg
ChinakomMitt – Research, education, and work - China-competent in Central Hesse and beyond
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The ChinakomMitt project aims to bundle the existing activities in (Central) Hesse for the acquisition of China-competence and to expand the portfolio of offers in line with the target group in order to prepare players in science and business for informed cooperation with China by imparting relevant competences.
This is implemented by adapting and using successfully established formats and integrating innovative concepts (i.e. a china-themed living library, modeled after the Human Library
for teaching intercultural China-competences.
The University of Marburg, the University of Giessen, and the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen University of Applied Sciences) cooperate within the project, thereby connecting experienced and less experienced players concerning China cooperation, bringing a wide range of stakeholders in Hesse and China into the development of region-specific China competences. A central “Service-point China-Competences”, located at the University of Marburg, functions as contact point for everyone involved in the project and all interested parties concerning scientific and economic cooperation with China. The network will prepare and enable the region for sustainable China cooperation at eye level.
Contact
University of Marburg
Project Lead: Petra Kienle
Project Coordination: Daniel Höft
Website
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ChinaKooP – Jena
ChinaKooP – China competence platform for universities and research institutions in Thuringia
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The project’s overall objective is to enhance the China competence at Thuringia's higher education and non-university research institutions thus safeguarding innovation strength and sustainability in their China cooperations.
Jena is a high-tech location with many links to China. This makes it particularly important to raise awareness for a differentiated approach to dealing with China. It also requires clear guidelines to help ensure compliance with ethical and academic principles when initiating and shaping cooperation, as well as relevant qualifications to ensure that this process is legally sound and sustainable. Core elements of this project therefore include a qualification and certificate programme to promote China competency, as well as the development of a strategy for China that addresses important issues such as the protection of intellectual property in cooperation and the handling of dual-use technologies and goods.
This project will also strengthen the exchange of knowledge and good practices at a regional and national level. In this context, it will contribute to the closing of existing gaps in knowledge and competence and to the advancement of a strategy for a differentiated approach to China.
Contact
Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, International Office
Project Lead: Dr. Claudia Hillinger
Project Coordination: Linus Schlüter
Website
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C-NET RNR – Duisburg / Bochum
C-NET RNR – Establishment of a China competence network for the Ruhr / Lower Rhine academic area
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The aim of the project is to network existing China competencies in the Ruhr and Lower Rhine region (RNR) and to bring them into dialogue with each other. Existing knowledge is to be exchanged within the framework of peer group forums, and new knowledge is to be made accessible to interested groups of people in a didactically prepared form. The primary target group will be management and administrative staff, as well as (junior) scientists at universities and research institutions in the RNR region who are involved with China in their work or who are planning such an involvement.
In addition, other actors are to be addressed and included who are confronted with very similar challenges and can contribute important experience and knowledge to the China Competence Network RNR. These actors are the 'China commissioners' of local communities and associations, who are responsible for setting fundamental frameworks in the relationship with China at the interface of higher education policy, business development and social interests. The C-NET RNR project can build on existing structures, which will be strengthened and expanded through targeted measures. The project will be advanced on several parallel working levels, which are dedicated to network building, knowledge transfer and knowledge preservation
Contact
University of Duisburg-Essen
Project Lead: Prof. Dr. Markus Taube
Project Coordinator: Dr. Susanne Stein
Ruhr University Bochum
Project Lead: Prof. Dr. Jörn-Carsten Gottwald
Website
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ENTRANCE – Aachen / Jülich
ENTRANCE – Expertise & Transfer Network on China & Europe [joint project]
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ENTRANCE is a joint project of Forschungszentrum Jülich and RWTH Aachen University within the BMBF‘s Regio-China programme. Through the implementation of a variety of measures from 2023 to 2026, the competences that are required for cooperations with Chinese partners will be expanded. As a concrete result of the project, new processes and orientations that facilitate these cooperations will be developed.
ENTRANCE is the abbreviation of 'Expertise & Transfer Network on China & Europe'. This means that the desired legal competences will be developed in a network of partners and discussed and shared at the regional, national and European level. Alumni also play an important role in this process - their experience and knowledge will be actively included.
Contact
RWTH Aachen University
Project Lead: René Seyfarth
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
Project Lead: Dr. Hyunji Park
Website
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HNC³ – Hamburg
HNC³ – Hamburg Network on Compliance in Cooperation with China
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Cooperation with Chinese partners is of great importance for Hamburg as a location for science, business and trade. At the same time, existing and future cooperations are caught in a tension field between trusting cooperation, striving for innovation, mutual dependence, increasing regulations and systemic rivalry. The members of HNC³ all have many years of relevant experience in cooperations with Chinese partners and have already gained experience with critical issues, such as restriction of scientific freedom, interference, knowledge drain or dual use. However, there are also numerous established collaborations that need to be maintained and further developed. With the conviction that the common strength lies in cooperation, the participating institutions want to bundle their competencies in order to enable all members to shape cooperations with Chinese partners in a sustainable and legally secure manner. A particular focus is on raising awareness and training young researchers as well as other actors within the participating institutions.
This is how target groups can be efficiently and sustainably made aware of the opportunities and risks of cooperation. This is done in different formats that combine the advantages of events in both digital and face-to-face formats that have been tested in recent years. Due to the high density of higher education institutions with China competence in the Hamburg metropolitan region, the focus is also on networking on China-related topics as well as on the different foci in dealing with Chinese cooperation partners. In close exchange with each other as well as with regional actors from business, politics and society, the members lay the foundations for navigating the choppy waters of German-Chinese relations.
Contact
Hamburg University
Project Lead: Yannick Ringot
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KoWinChi – Erlangen / Würzburg
KoWinChi – Competence for research cooperation with China [joint project]
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Cooperation with China is indispensable in many scientific disciplines. Chinese scientists today conduct research at an international level. Especially in natural science, the education of young Chinese scientists is often outstanding. In addition, Chinese institutions offer attractive research opportunities. Research cooperation with China therefore takes place today on an equal footing.
At the same time, cooperation has become more complex because it takes place against the background of increased economic competition and system rivalry. Economic competition leads to concerns regarding intellectual property rights, industrial espionage or dual-use technologies. System rivalry raises questions about the safety of foreign scientists in China, the protection of freedom of expression, and academic freedom in general. The differences in scientific culture and academic socialisation pose significant challenges to cooperation and to the training of young Chinese scientists in Germany.
Against this background, the project 'Competence in Research Cooperation with China' (KoWinChi) aims to prepare scientists and science support staff at universities and research institutions for cooperation with China. The project is developing a modular system of training units that encourage interaction and exchange. The persons in the target groups can select modules to put together an individual training plan. The modules can be embedded in the participating universities’ and science organisations’ training programmes or combined to form a certificate. The aim of the sub-project KoWinChi@JMU [project management at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg] is to develop the social science content of the modules in close cooperation with the project partner and to ensure the marketing and evaluation of the concept. The aim of the sub-project KoWinChi@FAU is to develop the intercultural and intellectual historical content of the modules in close cooperation with the project partner.
Contact
Julius-Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg (JMU)
Project Lead: Prof. Dr. Doris Fischer
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
Project Lead: Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard
Wi-Wi-Ko-China – Berlin / Bonn
Wi-Wi-Ko-China – Knowledge for Academic Cooperation: Research-based and action-guiding China competence for German academic organisations [joint project, support action]
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The aim of Wi-Wi-Ko-China is to gain and process new insights into the current opportunities and challenges of science cooperation with the People's Republic of China (PRC) by deepening and disseminating knowledge and expertise on China among key academic stakeholders in Germany. The Wi-Wi-Ko-China Project scientifically accompanies the projects of Module 1 of the Regio China Initiative, establishes a systematic exchange between the actors and makes the most important results accessible to a broader public via a digital platform. The overall project consists of sub-project A - Analysis (collection and synthesis of knowledge about China), at the Lise-Meitner Research Group 'China in the Global System of Science' at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and sub-project B - Transfer (application of knowledge about China) at the DAAD.
In close cooperation with the Module 1 projects and using social science methods, sub-project A explores the experience gained by German (and European) science organisations and researchers in cooperative ventures and bundles the diverse competencies and further needs as well as approaches to action that can be derived from this. It also synthesizes application-oriented knowledge about the functioning and special features of the Chinese science system and the global orientation of Chinese science policy. The findings of these analyses are disseminated to the Module 1 projects via the digital knowledge platform of Wi-Wi-Ko-China and are continuously developed together with them.
As part of sub-project B, a digital knowledge platform for universities and research organisations will be developed, implemented, and promoted. In addition, up to five workshops with different thematic focuses will be organised digitally or in presence with the Modul 1 projects and European partners. With two major transfer events during the project implementation period, synergies are gained not only within the initiative, but the sustainable availability and further development of the hands-on China competence is also ensured.
Wi-Wi-Ko-China communicates its results via public relation activities, publications, and a final event addressing a broad circle of stakeholders. The practical and concrete knowledge generated by Wi-Wi-Ko-China is thus continuously made available to all Module 1 projects and, in the advanced course of the project and beyond its duration, to other actors in scientific cooperation with Chinese partners.
Contact
Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science e.V.
Project Lead: Dr. Anna Lisa Ahlers
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Project Lead: Sakine Weikert
E-mail: wiwiko@daad.de
Yiqi – Chemnitz / Zwickau
Yiqi – Joint China Competence Saxony [joint project]
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Together, as the project name Yi qi (chinese “一起“ = „together“) makes clear, represents the basis of the project in the development and expansion as well as the deepening, dissemination, and transfer of China competence. This is also evident in the cooperation and collaboration of the consortium, whereby the project participants are interdisciplinary, with a wide range of experience horizons and cultural backgrounds. Thus, China competence building in Yi qi does not take place about China, but together with China, through the involvement and continuous exchange with the Chinese partners.
The Regio-China project focuses on the evidence-based development and expansion of China competence in the region of Saxony. Uniting the universities: Chemnitz University of Technology (TUC) and Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau - University of Applied Science (WHZ) as well as integrating further associated partners: the University of Leipzig, the Tongji University (Shanghai), the Saxon Economic Development Corporation (Wirtschaftsförderung Sachsen GmbH), the Fraunhofer IKTS Dresden, as well as the associations Silicon Saxony and the German-Chinese Association for Microelectronics and Semiconductors, a knowledge network will be created. The network will serve as a central competence center for university managers and administrators, heads of academic foreign offices, scientists, especially young scientists, and SMEs in the region, providing advice and information as well as developing and expanding China competencies as needed.
The aim of sub-project A (under the direction of the Chemnitz University of Technology) is to build up and process regional China competence, as well as to disseminate and consolidate it through the Saxony China Competence Centre. To this end, experienced experts, particularly from the natural sciences and technology sector, will be interviewed. The collected knowledge will be transferred to students, scientists (especially young scientists), administrative staff and managers of research institutions in the Saxony region via innovative learning techniques.
The objective of sub-project B (Knowledge networking through social collaboration, led by Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau) will establish contact with active and former actors with China competence and expand existing contacts to stimulate an informal exchange of knowledge. This will be achieved by developing an open and social collaboration concept based on the principles of self-organisation, knowledge pooling and networking.
Contact
Chemnitz University of Technology (TUC)
Project Lead: Prof. Dr. Harald Kuhn
University of Applied Sciences Zwickau
Project Lead: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil Christian-Andreas Schumann
