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

Project narrative

On June 3, 2008, the Confucius Institute Headquarters (Hanban), the University of Barcelona (Universidad de Barcelona), the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona), and Casa Asia (亚洲之家) signed an agreement to establish the Confucius Institute in Barcelona. 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 2009, the University of Barcelona, the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and Casa Asia and Beijing Foreign Studies University (北京外国语大学), the cooperating partner, signed a supplementary implementation agreement. [Implementing Agency] agreed to provide one or two visiting scholars annually, donate teaching materials, and receive student study groups. The Confucius Institute was officially established on April 15, 2010, and it began to formally operate in March 2011. It was the fourth Confucius Institute to be established in Spain. It had 34 staff members in 2016, that included 5 Chinese language teachers and 6 volunteers. The Confucius Institute in Barcelona oversaw the following 2 Confucius Classrooms - ID#101544: University of Andorra - ID#101545: La Salle Girona secondary