Project ID: 71648

Chinese government provides scholarships through Sino-Cuban Education Exchange Project

Summary

Funding agency [Type]

Unspecified Chinese Government Institution [Government Agency]

Recipient

Cuba

Sector

Education (Code: 110)

Flow type

Scholarships/training in the donor country

Infrastructure

No

Category

Intent

Development (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Commercial

Development

Representational

Mixed

Financial Flow Classification

ODA-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

Implementation (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Pledge

Commitment

Implementation

Completion

Suspended

Cancelled

Milestones

Commitment

2001-01-01

Description

In April 2001, Cuba and China signed the "Agreement on Educational Exchange between the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China and the Ministries of Education and Higher Education of the Republic of Cuba". According to this agreement, colloquially referred to as the "Sino-Cuban Education Exchange Project," Cuba can send 150 students to China each year on a full scholarship On October 24, 2019, China and Cuba renewed the education exchange agreement until 2022

Additional details

This information is reflected on the Chinese Embassy in Cuba website as of July 2020; thus, this project has been coded with Implementation status, as it is assumed several rounds of scholarships have come to pass since the initial signing in 2001.

Number of official sources

3

Number of total sources

3

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Details

Cofinanced

No

Implementing agencies [Type]

China Ministry of Education [Government Agency]

Cuba Ministry of Education [Government Agency]