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Hanban provides a grant for the establishment of Confucius Institute at Blekinge Institute of Technology

Commitment Year•2011Country of Activity•SwedenDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•SwedenSector•EducationFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Jan 1, 2011
End (actual)
Apr 1, 2012

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This project established a Confucius Institute at Blekinge Institute of Technology in Karlskrona, Sweden. More detailed locational information can be found at: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/121295521.

Stakeholders

Organizations involved in projects and activities supported by financial and in-kind transfers from Chinese government and state-owned entities

Funding agencies

Government Agencies

  • Hanban, Confucius Institute Headquarters

Receiving agencies

Government Agencies

  • Blekinge Institute of Technology

Implementing agencies

Government Agencies

  • Kunming University of Science and Technology

Loan description

Hanban provides a grant for the establishment of Confucius Institute at Blekinge Institute of Technology

Narrative

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Project narrative

In 2011, the Confucius Institute Headquarters (Hanban) and Blekinge Institute of Technology signed an agreement to establish the Confucius Institute at Blekinge Institute of Technology. As part of the agreement, Hanban is obligated to provide teaching materials, an annual fund, and numbers of Chinese instructors. The funds are dispersed through a local Bank of China account or other approved bank account created by the institute. The agreement has a 5-year validity and automatically renews at the end of every 5-year term. In August 2011, Blekinge Institute of Technology and Kunming University of Science and Technology (昆明理工大学), the cooperating partner, signed a supplementary implementation agreement. Kunming University of Science and Technology agreed to provide one or two visiting scholars annually, donate teaching materials, and receive student study groups. The Confucius Institute was officially established in April 2012 and it has been closed. This was the third Confucius Institute to be established in Sweden.

Staff comments

1. The Chinese name of the Confucius Institute is 布莱金厄学院孔子学院. 2. The precise establishment date of this Confucius Institute is unknown. For the time being, AidData has coded the commitment_year field as 2011 as this was the year the Confucius Institute it was established and marked the committment_year_estimated? field as True. This issue merits further investigation.