Project ID: 43939

Hanban provides grant for the establishment of Confucius Institute at Khon Kaen University

Summary

Funding agency [Type]

Hanban (Confucius Institute Headquarters) [Government Agency]

Recipient

Thailand

Sector

Education (Code: 110)

Flow type

Grant

Infrastructure

No

Category

Intent

Representational (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Commercial

Development

Representational

Mixed

Financial Flow Classification

OOF-like (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Official Development Assistance

Other Official Flows

Vague (Official Finance)

Flows categorized based on OECD-DAC guidelines

Project lifecycle

Status

Completion (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Pledge

Commitment

Implementation

Completion

Suspended

Cancelled

Milestones

Commitment

2006-01-01

Actual complete

2006-08-03

Geography

Description

May 24, 2006, Khon Kaen University and Southwest University collaborated to open the first Confucius Institute in the northeast of Thailand. Khon Kaen University (KKU) foresaw the rapidly increasing demands for Chinese language study of the people in the northeast of Thailand. With its aims to strengthen educational cooperation between China and Thailand, to support and promote the development of Chinese language education, and to increase mutual understanding between the people of China and Thailand, together with the support from The Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Thailand, the agreement was signed between KKU and Southwest University (SWU) for the cooperation for Confucius Institute in March 2006, and the agreement between KKU and The Office of Chinese Language Council International (Hanban) for the establishment of the Confucius Institute at KKU was signed on May 24, 2006. On August 3, 2006, Confucius Institute at Khon Kaen University held its opening ceremony and began operations.

Additional details

The monetary value of the grant commitment from Hanban that supported this project is unknown.

Number of official sources

0

Number of total sources

3

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Details

Cofinanced

No

Direct receiving agencies [Type]

Khon Kaen University [Miscellaneous Agency Type]

Implementing agencies [Type]

Southwest University [Miscellaneous Agency Type]