CISAD has joined the new international initiative “European Hub for Contemporary China” (EuroHub4Sino), which aims to create a centre of knowledge on China from a European perspective. The project, funded by the European Research Executive Agency (REA) of the European Commission, tackles the challenge of mainstreaming and popularizing knowledge on China in the European context.
China achieved an unprecedented economic growth since it began to reform and open up its economy in 1978. The global repercussions of such growth span from economy to diplomacy and from environment to security. To manage these challenges and seizing opportunities requires a better understanding of China. Yet, China makes access to mainstream Chinese information space difficult alongside stepping up disinformation efforts to further complicate fact-based research. Moreover, the European level expertise on contemporary China is often fragmented and difficult to access.
As a consequence, China related topics are not temporary and the EU requires independent and fact-based knowledge on contemporary China. To address this need, EuroHub4Sino will establish an independent European network of China experts and stakeholders. China scholars and researchers from a wide variety of thematic and disciplinary domains will be a part of this community. However, this will not be an academics-only network - it will embrace EU & MS officials, journalists, CSO representatives, and businesspeople, all of whom have interest and some sort of expertise in China. The Jagiellonian University is one of the main partners of EuroHub4Sino, working on the cluster “Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI)”.
The project “European Hub for Contemporary China (EuroHub4Sino)” has received funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement number 101131737.
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