WU Vienna Lecture

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“The New Silk Road: implications for higher education and research cooperation between China and Europe”

The New Silk Road: implications for higher education and research cooperation between China and Europe

Date: 25 November 2019, Institute for Higher Education Management (D5)

Speaker: Prof. dr. Marijk van der Wende, Distinguished Professor of Higher Education, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Title: “The New Silk Road: implications for higher education and research cooperation between China and Europe”

Recent geopolitical events such as Brexit and the US turning its back on international trade and cooperation create waves of uncertainty in higher education regarding international cooperation, the free movement of students, academics, scientific knowledge, and ideas. Meanwhile China is launching new global initiatives with its New Silk Road (or One Belt One Road) project, which 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.

How will the NSR affect European higher education and research? What types of academic flows and activities emerge along the NSR, how do universities respond, under what conditions are these activities taking place, who defines these, based on what values, and do we actually understand these values at all? What will be the impact of these developments on the US HE sector and its role in the global HE landscape?

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The project is carried out by an international consortium coordinated by Utrecht University’s Centre for Global Challenges (UGlobe).

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