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Project narrative
In 2014, the Confucius Institute Headquarters (Hanban) and Grand Education Group (大教) signed an agreement to establish the Rainbow Confucius Institute. 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 2014, Grand Education Group and Jilin International Studies University (吉林省外国语大学), the cooperating partner, signed a supplementary implementation agreement. Jilin International Studies University agreed to provide one or two visiting scholars annually, donate teaching materials, and receive student study groups. The Confucius Institute was officially established in September 2014. It is based in Seoul. The Confucius Institute began as a Confucius Classroom.
Staff comments
1. The Chinese name of the Confucius Institute is 彩虹孔子课堂. 2. The precise establishment date of this Confucius Institute is unknown. For the time being, AidData has coded the commitment_year field as 2014 as this was the year this Confucius Institute was established and marked the committment_year_estimated? field as True. This issue merits further investigation.