May 17, 2005
| The Asia-Link Programme is an initiative by the European Commission to promote regional and multilateral networking between higher education institutions in EU Member States and eligible countries in Asia. The programme aims to promote the creation of new partnerships and new sustainable links between European and Asian higher education institutions, and to reinforce existing partnerships. The objective of the Asia-Link Programme is to promote regional and multilateral networking between higher education institutions in Europe, South and South East Asia and China. |
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In May 2005, partners of the CyberC3 Project (SJTU, Coimbra University, COAR(INRIA's partner)), worked together and jointly made one proposal to the Asia-Link Programme. Tsinghua University, which is the best engineering university in China, has also been invited to participate in the new project. This proposal was submitted to EC on May 16, 2005.
The title of this new project is: Euro-Asia Link in Higher Education and Research on Robotics (EA-Robot). The overall objectives are to foster an educational and research cooperation between Europe and Asia, and to develop human resources in the field robotics, particularly in its applications in the Intelligent Transportation System, on one hand, aiming to improve the Asian higher education system; on the other hand, aiming to provide an innovative transport mode based on robotics technology for the Asian sustainable development. The specific objective of this project is to upgrade and enhance the skills of the present and future teachers in the field of robotics.
This project will last three years. The main activities include a kick-off meeting in China, three annual meetings (1st in France, 2nd in China, and 3rd in Portugal); one final workshop in China; teacher exchanges at European partner institutes; teacher exchanges at Asian partner institutes; student exchanges at European partner institutions; student co-supervision, etc.
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Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China) |
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Ecole des Mines de Paris-ARMINES, Centre de Robotique (France) |
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Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Coimbra University (Portugal) |
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Tsinghua University (China) |
