Next Tuesday, March 22nd, ThinkIN China will celebrate its 50th event and 5 years of community events in Beijing. The headline of the event this time Sustainable Corporate Development in China and the World and the speakers will be Klaus Leisinger from the Global Values Alliance and Karl Schlect Foundation and Liu Baocheng from the Center fro International Business Ethics, UIBE. The venue will be, like before, The Bridge Cafe, Rm.8 Bldg. 12...

2016 UK-China Education Policy Week is a week of education events in Beijing around the theme of excellence, employability and entrepreneurship.Many of the events might be of interest to researchers involved in Sino-British collaboration and most of them are free. The events include event on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Education and Graduate Employability and a workshop on joint quality assurance for UK-China transnational education...

The DRAGON-STAR Plus project (funded by the European Commission under H2020) is conducting a global study on the future of the Innovation landscape in Europe and China by 2030. Expert contacts are invited to participate in a survey that asks about their views on Megatrends and Disruptive Business Models that will shape the China of 2030. This questionnaire is part of the on-going foresight work, which also includes participatory workshops,...

Large telescopes, particle accelerators and environmental stations are among the topics covered by the eight new research infrastructure projects that were announced as part of the 2016 Roadmap for the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI). Its launch is hosted by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) at its headquarters in Amsterdam. Robert-Jan Smits, the European Commission's Director-General for...

The EU-China Research Centre and the Baillet Latour Chair of European Union-China Relations at the College of Europe in Bruges are calling for contributions to the second issue of the EU-China Observer of 2016. The issue will focus on  "EU-China Cooperation in Security Issues" (submission deadline 15 April 2016) . Contributions or the next issue of the EU-China Observer may cover - but are not limited to - the following topics: A field of joint...

Xinhua recently published an overview over the Goals, missions of China's new five-year plan in innovation-driven development: The draft outline of the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-2020) on national economy and social development was presented on Saturday to the Fourth Session of the 12th National People's Congress for review. Following are the goals and missions set in the draft outline for the years between 2016 and 2020.  [EURAXESS has bolded S...

On 8 March 2016, International Women's Day is being celebrated around the world. Gender equality is a cornerstone of the European Union and applies to all European policies including research and innovation. The Strategic engagement for gender equality 2016-2019 was published in December 2015, and is a follow-up and prolongation of the Commission Strategy for equality between women and men 2010-2015. It sets the framework for the Commisison's...

MOFCOM Scholarship is set up by Ministry of Commerce of People's Republic of China to further strengthen the communication and cooperation between China and other countries as well as to develop talents for developing countries. Starting from 2015, MOFCOM Scholarship mainly sponsors the young and the middle-aged talents from recipient countries to pursue their postgraduate degree education in China and entrusts China Scholarship Council to...

[Original Press Release at the website of the Delegation of the European Union in Beijing] A new chapter in EU-China aviation relations started today, with the official launch of the EU-China Aviation Partnership Project (APP). The 5-year, €10 million project, managed by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and partners, will link technical cooperation with policy dialogue between the European and Chinese aviation authorities. It is funded...

The European Commission launched a Call for Ideas on the setting up of a European Innovation Council to support Europe's most promising innovators. The Call for Ideas seeks proposals from all interested parties, including innovators who do not usually participate in EU support schemes, on how a European Innovation Council could be designed to improve Europe's capacity to generate and scale up breakthrough innovations. Positive steps have been...