Overview

Chinese government pledges scholarships for up to 60 Ecuadorian students for academic year 2020-21 (Linked to Record ID#91343)

Commitment Year•2020Country of Activity•EcuadorDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•EcuadorSector•EducationFlow Type•Scholarships/training in the donor country

Status

Project lifecycle

Pipeline: Pledge

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date: Jan 1, 2020

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

China Ministry of Education

Receiving agencies

Government Agencies

Senescyt - Secretariat for Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation (Ecuador)

Loan desecription

Chinese government pledges scholarships for up to 60 Ecuadorian students for academic year 2020-21 (Linked to Record ID#91343)

Narrative

Full Description

Project narrative

In 2015, Ecuador's Secretariat for Higher Education, Science, Technology, and Innovation (or Sensecyt) and the Chinese Ministry of Education signed a Scientific and Technological Cooperation Agreement for the provision of five years worth of scholarships for Ecuadorian students. The Chinese Ministry of Education agreed to finance up to 300 scholarships, beginning with the 2016-2017 school year and ending with the 2020-2021 school year. Up to 60 scholarships were available for the 2020-2021 academic year. However, it is unknown if students applied for/received these scholarships due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In materials about the 2021-2022 scholarship (provided under a new cooperation agreement), the Government of Ecuador indicated that students that received the scholarship would attend the university of their choice in an online modality.