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
Cooperation between Bulgarian academic institutions and their Chinese counterparts is a generic phenomenon. The overwhelming majority of universities in Bulgaria have established ties of varying levels with China’s academia, primarily in the form of academic and student exchanges, joint research, and publications. Confucius Institutes (CIs) have been additionally enmeshed in the Bulgarian secondary and tertiary… Continue reading Bulgaria: A steady embrace of Chinese academia
