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Binus university establishes first Taiwan studies center

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Indonesia’s Binus University (Universitas Bina Nusantara) announced the establishment of a Taiwan studies center on Wednesday after the university signed an agreement with a Taiwanese official representing the country’s Ministry of Education (MOE). Chen Chung (陳忠), Representative of the Taipei Economic and Trade Office (TETO), which functions as Taiwan's de facto embassy in Jakarta, signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with Bernard Gunawan, chief executive officer at Binus University, and other senior staff of the university on academic exchanges between the two countries, which includes the establishment of a Taiwan studies center. Chen said the agreement would be the first one for which Taiwanese and Indonesian universities collaborate over Taiwan studies with the aim of facilitating academic exchanges between the two countries. Gunawan said in an interview with the CNA that the agreement marked a significant milestone in cooperation between Taiwan’s univers...

Taiwan Research Grant for Foreign Scholars in Chinese Studies

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1.   The Center for Chinese Studies (CCS) has the following provisions for its research grant program.  2.   This program is aim at foreign professors, associate professors, assistant professors (including post-doctoral researchers) and doctoral candidates in departments related to Chinese studies at foreign universities, as well as researchers at related foreign academic institutes.  The research should be undertaken in Taiwan, and be focused mainly on Taiwan or Chinese studies.  3.   CCS provides assistance with research expenses, research materials, liaison with universities and research institutions, and use of CCS facilities, etc.  4.   Research tenure is one month to one year.  5.   Applications should be submitted to the CCS by May 31 of each year before the year in which grants are intended to be used; notification of CCS’s decision will be given by the end of August of the same year after a careful review. Appli...

Indonesia Taiwan Education Center in Surabaya

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The Indonesia Taiwan Education Center in Surabaya (TECSID) was established by Asia University (AU), Taiwan, in collaboration with AU’s sister university, China Medical University (CMU) under the auspice of the Ministry of Education, Taiwan, to promote the government’s new southbound policy in bilateral talent cultivation and industry linkage in coordination with ASEAN and South Asian countries. TECSID has been created as a platform to connect universities in Taiwan and Indonesia and thus enhance mutual understanding educationally, socially and culturally and to achieve prosperity by enriching and empowering each other. TECSID focuses on ASEAN and South Asian countries to achieve the above-mentioned aims and wishes to work together with Taiwan Foreign Affairs units, Taiwan Education Centers across the region and their associated Chinese Language Centers, Taiwan foreign alumni associations, Taiwan research seminars, Southeast Asian Taiwanese schools, Taiwanese business associations, a...