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Overview

Hanban provides a grant for the establishment of the Confucius Institute in Atlanta

Commitment Year•2008Country of Activity•United StatesDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•United StatesSector•EducationFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Jan 1, 2008
End (actual)
Mar 23, 2008

Geospatial footprint

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This project provides a grant for the establishment of the Confucius Institute in Atlanta. The Confucius Institute was located at Sammye E. Coan Middle School. More detailed locational information can be found at: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/40877540.

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

NGO/CSO/Foundations

  • Emory University

Implementing agencies

Government Agencies

  • Nanjing University (NJU)

Loan description

Hanban provides a grant for the establishment of the Confucius Institute in Atlanta

Narrative

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Project narrative

In 2008, the Confucius Institute Headquarters (Hanban) and Emory University signed an agreement to establish the Confucius Institute in Atlanta. 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, Emory University and Nanjing University, the cooperating partner, signed a supplementary implementation agreement. Nanjing University agreed to provide one or two visiting scholars annually, donate teaching materials, and receive student study groups. The Confucius Institute was officially established on March 23, 2008 and it closed in November 2021.

Staff comments

1. The Chinese name of the Confucius Institute is 亚特兰大孔子学院. 2. The precise establishment date of this Confucius Institute is unknown. For the time being, AidData has coded the commitment_year field as 2008 as this was the year this Confucius Institute was established and marked the committment_year_estimated? field as True. This issue merits further investigation.