18 January 2008

GPPi wins start-up grant for EU-China research program

GPPi was awarded a 9-month start-up grant by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in support of its research program on EU-China relations. The research grant will support the efforts to prepare a comprehensive grant application for the EU’s Seventh Framework Program (socio-economic sciences and the humanities, FP7) under the heading “Europe’s changing role in the world”.  

The working title of the planned collaborative research proposal is “The European Union, China, and Global Governance. Perceptions, Misperceptions, and Convergences”. The project will seek to explore the underlying dynamics of the EU-China partnership with regard to key global governance challenges. To this end, the project will conduct an in-depth analysis of EU-China relations with regard to five policy areas that are of prime importance in the context of global governance: non-proliferation, international crisis management, energy policy, foreign aid/development policy, and trade policy.  

By building an interdisciplinary and pan-European network of research partners, the project will attempt to combine EU-China-related findings from a broad variety of disciplines, bringing together insights from the humanities (including Sinology and European studies) with economics and international relations.

To visit the project page, please click here. 

For further information, please contact Björn Conrad or Stephan Mergenthaler.

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