China and Europe on the New Silk Road

Online Conference (Streamed Live Here on November 5-6, 2020)

China and Europe on the New Silk Road: Connecting Universities

This Conference Includes Our Book Launch Event

The global order, based on international governance and multilateral trade mechanisms in the aftermath of the Second World War, is changing rapidly and creating waves of uncertainty. This is especially true in higher education, a field increasingly built on international cooperation and the free movement of students, academics, knowledge, and ideas. Meanwhile, China has announced its plans for a “New Silk Road” (NSR) and is developing its higher education and research systems at speed. In this book an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars from Europe, China, the USA, Russia, and Australia investigate how academic mobility and cooperation is taking shape along the New Silk Road and what difference it will make, if any, in the global higher education landscape.

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Recent geopolitical events create waves of uncertainty in higher education regarding international cooperation, the free movement of students, academics, scientific knowledge, and ideas. Meanwhile China stands to gain as its universities advance in global visibility. The growing unpredictabilities in the West may make China only more successful in its aim to attract talent (back) and to enhance its impact on the global higher education landscape. Its New Silk Road (or One Belt One Road) project could potentially span and integrate major parts of the world across the Euro-Asian continents. But likely on new and different conditions, also for higher education.

The conference will discuss the changing academic relations between China and other countries in Asia and Europe. Key questions focus on flows and patterns of academic mobility along the New Silk Road. It also investigates initiatives undertaken by universities as well as the conditions under which these are taking place. It aims at discussing the impact of these developments on EU-China collaborations, on the global higher education landscape, the key role of the US therein, and on how academic systems between China and Europe will position themselves.

Leading scholars from Europe, China, and the US. National and European level policy makers and university leaders will engage in the discussion on the policy implications of these current trends and elaborate the related opportunities and challenges.

This conference is highly relevant for: university policy makers, international officers, researchers engaged in Sino-European collaboration, higher education and research foundations, funding bodies, and scholars and students interested in international affairs, China-European relations in particular.

Researchers and professionals from business and administration as well as NGOs with a link to the New Silk Road and higher education from all fields are welcome to join the symposium online. (no registration needed)

Program

Opening session: On old and new Silk Roads: perspectives from global history and the future of global cooperation in academia
Panel 1: The Rise of China in Global Higher Education
Panel 2: Academic Cooperation: Trends and Flows along the New Silk Road
Junior Scholars Workshop
Theme Session: Academic Cooperation: University Strategies
Panel 3: Policy Frameworks for Academic Cooperation
Panel 4: Conditions for Balanced Relationships – Challenges for Future Sino-European Collaboration

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