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Overview

Hanban provides a grant for the establishment of Confucius Institute at the University of Lisbon

Commitment Year•2007Country of Activity•PortugalDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•PortugalSector•EducationFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Jan 1, 2007
End (actual)
Apr 8, 2008

Geospatial footprint

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The purpose of this project was the establishment of the Confucius Institute at the University of Lisbon, located in Alvalade, Lisbon, Portugal. More detailed locational information can be found at https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/460999059.

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

Government Agencies

  • University of Lisbon

Implementing agencies

Government Agencies

  • Tianjin Foreign Studies University

Loan description

Hanban provides a grant for the establishment of Confucius Institute at the University of Lisbon

Narrative

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Project narrative

In 2007, the Confucius Institute Headquarters (Hanban) and University of Lisbon (Universidade de Lisboa) signed an agreement to establish the Confucius Institute at the University of Lisbon. 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. On January 31, 2007, University of Lisbon and Tianjin Foreign Studies University (天津外国语大学), the cooperating partner, signed a supplementary implementation agreement. Tianjin Foreign 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 on April 8, 2008. The Confucius Institute at the University of Lisbon oversaw the following Confucius Classroom - ID# 102540: Colegio de Santo Tomás

Staff comments

1. The Chinese name of the Confucius Institute is 里斯本大学孔子学院. 2. The precise establishment date of this Confucius Institute is unknown. For the time being, AidData has coded the commitment_year field as 2007 as this was the year the Confucius Institute it was established and marked the committment_year_estimated? field as True. This issue merits further investigation.