This article benefited from research assistance by Madalina Merlusca. Over the last decade, China has been expanding and improving its economic and cultural ties with Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC), relying on both bilateral and multilateral initiatives. Cooperation in the field of education has been one of these pillars, driving student and professor mobility,… Continue reading Romania: Balancing the rising interest and challenges of China as an academic partner
Examination of the relations and cooperation between universities in the PRC and the Czech Republic uncovered several key trends. In total, 17 universities and four research institutes have some level of agreement or official cooperation with a Chinese higher-learning institution included in the list of defense-sector linked schools by the ASPI China Defense University Tracker.… Continue reading Czech Republic: Chinese influence at universities as a clearly rising threat
There are structural reasons why foreign influences on Austrian universities or academia, in general, are very limited, if they exist at all. First, public university budgets are allocated by the federal government. They generally do not have to generate their own income, although external (public) research funding on the national, European Union, and international levels… Continue reading Austria: China, just one partner among many
This article benefited from research assistance by Sintija Broka. Academic cooperation with Chinese higher education entities is not an active direction of institutional interaction in Latvia. The Latvian academic community initially met the exchanges with China with a level of optimism. Although the major state universities, especially the University of Latvia and Riga Technical University,… Continue reading Latvia: Carelessness rooted in low threat perception
As a relatively small country of some 2.8 million people, Lithuania has a compact higher education and research ecosystem composed of a dozen public universities, eighteen lower-rank public ‘universities of applied sciences’ (kolegija – literally ‘college’), and eleven public scientific research institutes. Each type of institution was included in our research, but response rates and scope… Continue reading Lithuania: Some tech-based cooperation in politically sensitive times
