Hanban provides a grant for the establishment of Confucius Institute at Kansai University of Foreign Studies

Project narrative

On September 22, 2009, the Confucius Institute Headquarters (Hanban) and Kansai University of Foreign Studies signed an agreement to establish the Confucius Institute at Kansai University of Foreign Studies. 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 2008, Kansai University of Foreign Studies and Beijing Language and Culture University, the cooperating partner, signed a supplementary implementation agreement. Beijing Language and Culture University agreed to provide one or two visiting scholars annually, donate teaching materials, and receive student study groups. The Confucius Institute was officially opened on December 16, 2009 and it began operations on April 1, 2010. It was the twelfth Confucius Institute and the first type of foreign language university-centered Confucius Institute to be established in Japan.