Horizon 2020 launched with €15 billion over first two years

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The European Commission recently announced the first calls for proposals under Horizon 2020, the European Union’s €80 billion research and innovation programme. Worth more than €15 billion over the first two years, the funding is intended to help boost Europe’s knowledge-driven economy, and tackle global issues that will make a difference in people’s lives. This includes 12 focus areas in …

Deadline CSC Scholarships for Senior and Visiting Scholars (including Postdocs) in January 2014

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The deadline for application for the 2014 Chinese Government Scholarships Programme administered by the China Scholarship Council (CSC) is approaching in January 2014. Besides 7000 PhD scholarships, CSC will also sponsor 200 senior scholars and 2600 visiting scholars (including postdocs) from China for research training abroad in 2014. The duration of the scholarship for Postdocs may vary between 3 to …

China Elected 104 New Academicians in 2013

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On 19th December 2013, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) announced names of their newly elected Academicians, the highest academic honor in the field of science and technology in China. 53 out of 391 nominated candidates are elected as CAS Academicians this time, expanding the CAS membership to 750. CAE elected 51 out of …

NANC AGE 2013: “A Holland Alumni Family Gathering Evening”

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The Netherlands Alumni Network China (NANC) held its Annual General Event (AGE) successfully on Saturday, 7, December, 2013 at Beijing Hilton Wangfujing Hotel. The NANC Annual General Event (AGE) aims at getting Chinese and Dutch alumni together by the end of the year to recall the cheerful and memorable times when they were in the Netherlands for their study, and …

Dutch Dean China-EU Law School shares China experiences in writing and in drawing

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Prof. Aalt Willem Heringa from Maastricht University recently published an interesting publication in which he shared his personal observations during his posting as Co-dean of the EU-funded China-EU Law School (CESL). This law school is located within the campus of the China University for Political Science and Law (CUPL) in Beijing. A wide-range of topics, such as hierarchy, censorship, teaching, …

China lands rover on the moon

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On Saturday December 14th, 21:12 Beijing time, China succeeded in landing Chang’e 3, its lunar lander and carrier of the Yutu robotic rover, on the moon. It is a first-ever for China and the first soft-landing on the lunar surface since the former Soviet Union’s Luna 24 in 1976. Having successfully separated from its carrier, Yutu is currently driving on …

THE Ranking: China boasts more top universities than any other emerging economy

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The Times Higher Education (THE) BRICS & Emerging Economies Rankings 2014 was released last week to rank universities in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, as well as 17 other “emerging economies”. Peking University tops the table, with Tsinghua University second. Four of the top 10 and 23 of the top 100 institutions are Chinese. The other two in …

Netherlands-Asia Summer School will organize 2014 edition at Peking University

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On 2 December, Marjan Oudeman, Supervisory Board member of the Netherlands-Asia Honours Summer School (NAHSS) and president of Utrecht University signed an agreement with PKU’s vice president Li Yansong in Beijing to expand the international summer school from Hong Kong, Taipei, Shanghai to Beijing. The main aim of the NAHHS is to allow Dutch students to obtain better understanding of …

Energizing Cleveringa Lecture in Beijing

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Leiden University Professor Gert Jan Kramer gave a Cleveringa lecture to around 30 alumni from Leiden and other Dutch universities currently living and working in Beijing on 28 November. The inspiring talk was titled “The Energy Transition: the Netherlands, China, and the World”. Prof. Kramer briefly reviewed the history of energy and introduced the Shell Scenarios, the Greenpeace Energy (R)evolution …