On Friday, August 9th , 2013

At 2F, First Meeting Room, Administration Building, College of Social Sciences,(No.21, Xuzhou Rd., Taipei), National Taiwan University

Your participation would be most appreciated.
Attached please find the agenda and RSVP for your reference.

European Union Centre in Taiwan (EUTW)

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The 2013 Regional EU Centre Graduate Student Conference in Kyushu, Japan has smoothly closed its curtains. Taiwan delegation once again reports success. Graduate students from the Department of Political Science at National Taiwan University, Po-hao Wang and Hui-Chun Yeh, take Best Presentation Awards on issues in “History and Culture” and “Law and Politics” respectively. Their performance outshine at this conference. Taiwan is also the most awarded country, and which shows the solid academic training of Taiwanese graduate students.

Regional EU Centre Graduate Student Conference is an event held by the regional EU Centre for doctoral and graduate students of EU research. The second conference was held on 22-23 of February in year 2011 by the European Union Centre in Taiwan at the BL Building in National Taiwan University. The third conference was held last year on 2-3 of February by the EU Centre at Pusan National University in Busan, South Korea. The fourth conference this year was organized by the EU Centre at Kyushu University in Japan on 4-6 of February. Graduate students from Asia-Pacific regions—such as Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, Hong Kong, and Macao—all attended this event, publishing 28 papers on topics related to EU politics, law, history, culture, economics, etc.

The Taiwan delegation this time was led by the Director General, Lei Yang, of the EU Centre at National Sun Yat-sen University, a consortium university of the European Union Centre in Taiwan, with the collaboration of the Executive Director of EUTW, Marc Chia-Ching Cheng. They attended the event with graduate and doctoral students from Department of Political Science at National Taiwan University—Hui-Chun Yeh, Po-hao Wang, and Wei Ying Chiu—and Department of Diplomacy at National Chengchi University—Chien-Hao Huang and I-Kwei Yang. The Executive Director, Marc Chia-Ching Cheng said, not only did confident performances and natural and fluent answers to questions gain the favors of judges, solid content and relevant research are the main reasons for the awarded students’ wins.

Counsellor, Head of Press, Public, and Cultural Affair of Delegation of the EU to Japan, Rudie Filon said in the closing speech, besides confirming once again that the Regional EU Centre Graduate Student Conference held by regional EU Centres will contribute to deepening overall EU researches, he is also impressed by the exceedingly wonderful presentations and steady demeanor in speech of the students. Regional EU Centre has decided during the conference that the Director of EU Centres in New Zealand, Martin Holland, will organize next year’s Regional EU Centre Graduate Student Conference in 2014.

To encourage graduate students to participate in academic researches and publications related to EU research, European Centre in Taiwan will host the 2013 National Student Workshop on European Studies this year on May 24, 2013. Several excellent participants will be nominated, and will receive recommended priority to participate in the 2014 Regional EU Centre Graduate Student Conference. The deadline for turning in paper abstracts is on March 20. Interested graduate and doctoral students are gladly welcomed to submit.

Date: Friday, 24 May 2013

Venue：International Conference Hall, College of Social Sciences, National Taiwan University

The workshop is to offer Taiwanese students doing European studies an opportunity to further their research and to exchange ideas about their subject matters

EUTW wish you a happy new year!

To enhance the interactions between EU and Taiwan students, and further acquaint Taiwan students with EU countries in all dimensions, European Union Centre in Taiwan (EUTW) is to hold a series of workshops at National Taiwan University to introduce the EU, including her geography, history, cultures, delicacies, life-styles, or such of EU member states.

NTU students are encouraged to organise a team to propose and present in the workshop. Each team has to be at least two students respectively from Taiwan and EU countries. The selected team will be awarded $9,000 NT dollars after the completion of the presentation.

Eligibility requirements
1.Application Form:
Please download and fill the form from www.eutw.org.tw, mail to EUTW (ntueutw@ntu.edu.tw) by December 14 (Fri). First come first review.

2.Date & Venue:
Both are up to the presenters as long as the date must be before the end of this year. NTU Global Lounge is recommended yet other venues within NTU campus are also welcome. EUTW will cover the expense though each team is suggested to confirm the availability of the venue before submitting the proposal.

Organiser
European Union Centre in Taiwan, National Taiwan University
Contact person: Novio Liu
Tel: (02) 2351-9641 # 147
E-mail: ntueutw@ntu.edu.tw

About the Series

Asia and Europe together represent the largest landmass, the largest population, and the largest concentration of economic resources together with a diversity of cultural traditions. The 21st Century is characterised as “the Asian century” and therefore its interactions with Europe will be fundamental. There seems little doubt that in this new century, the Asia-Europe connection will be of utmost importance. This is indicated by the existence of the Asia-Europe Foundation (supported by the EU and housed in Singapore), by the flow of students from Asia to Europe and vice versa, and by the growing academic literature that highlights the benefits of two way cross cultural communication.

Education is a fundamental policy tool in both regions as they seek to move to take advantage of the knowledge economy. The European Union (EU) has recognized this with its policies in support of Asia-Europe mobility programmes and different countries in Asia constantly look to Europe not so much for support, as in the past, but as a source of investment. The success of Asian students in international large scale assessments is a constant reminder to European countries that there is much to learn from Asia.

This Routledge book series will provide a forum for dialogue on key educational issues and challenges faced by Asian and European societies. Its distinctiveness is its broad focus on Education in Asia and Europe. In essence, it will address major issues in education reform, student learning , leadership, curriculum, higher
education, multicultural education, and other major educational issues affecting Asia and Europe.

Please send your book proposals to the series editor Professor Kerry J. Kennedy at kerryk@ied.edu.hk.

Application deadline: 24 August 2012

The European Commission invites proposals to STRENGTHENING THE NETWORK OF EU CENTRES in Canada, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Singapore.

Objectives:

The overall objectives of public diplomacy activities in partner countries are:

to promote a better understanding of EU institutions, policies and stances on global challenges, economic, social, environmental and political integration processes;
to help raise awareness and understanding of EU affairs and to encourage reflection and discussion on the EU’s relations with these countries and key areas of current common interest to support EU international policy objectives;
to exert a positive influence on the way individuals and public and private organisations in partner countries perceive the EU and to encourage their greater involvement with the EU to support EU international policy objectives.

Topic: EU Fiscal Reform and Debt Crisis
Time: 29 June, 2012
Venue: Room 129, National Central Library

Agenda:
10:00~10:20 Coffee Break
10:20~12:00 Forum

EU is the fourth largest trading partner of Taiwan, accounting 9% of total trade in 2011. After the FTA of Korea and the EU was completed, however, Taiwanese enterprises face new challenges and are actively looking for a way out.

Time: 11 June 2011
Venue: Taiwan Academy of Banking and Finance
Host: European Union Centre of NCCU, APEC Research Centre
Co-Host: EUTW

Date: June 8th, 2012
Venue: Room B302A, Business and Management Building, Tamsui Campus, Tamkang University
Organisers: European Union Centre in Taiwan (EUTW), Graduate Institute of European Studies and European Research Centre at Tamkang University, Graduate Institute of Taiwan Studies, Chang Jung Christian University

The initiative and leadership for this edited volume came from the European Institute for Asian Studies (EIAS) based in Brussels. The book discusses questions related to the different European perspectives on Taiwan in various fields, asking, in particular: How has the European Union dealt with the unsolved status of the Republic of China on Taiwan? In which ways has Europe been seen as a model for Taiwan’s transformation, and, does the example of the EU offer any lessons for cross-Strait integration?

Symposium Agenda:
10:00-10:10 (10) Registration (B302A)
10:10-10:20 (10) Welcoming Remarks
Wan-chin TAI (Vice President for International Affairs and Dean of College of International Studies, Tamkang University)
Michael Yin-mao KAU (Senior Adviser of Taiwan Foundation for Democracy)
10:20-11:50 (90) European Perspectives on Taiwan
Moderator: Dr. Chiu-ching KUO (Director, Graduate Institute of European Studies and European Research Center, Tamkang University)

The Authors:
1. Paul Lim and Jens Damm (The Editors)
Introduction
2. Ann Heylen (Associate Professor, Department of Taiwan Culture, Languages and Literature & Director,
International Taiwan Studies Cente, National Taiwan Normal University)
Taiwan’s Historical Relations with Europe: Perspectives on the Past and the Present
3. Jens Damm (Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of Taiwan Studies, Chang Jung Christian University,
Tainan, Taiwan)
Multiculturalism in Taiwan and the Influence of Europe
4. Paul Lim (Head, Centre for European Studies, Institute of Occidental Studies, University Kebangsaan
Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia)
Sigrid Winkler (Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
The European Union’s Relations with the Republic of China (Taiwan)

Discussants：
Chia-ching CHENG (Executive Director, European Union Centre in Taiwan)
Chin-mo CHENG (Director, Department of Global Political Economy, Tamkang University)
Chin-ming LIN (Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of Asian Studies, Tamkang University)
Chung-ko TZOU (Professor, Graduate Institute of European Studies, Tamkang University)
Yi-mond YUAN (Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of European Studies, Tamkang University)
Chung-hung CHO (Associate Professor , Graduate Institute of European Studies, Tamkang University)

11:50-12:00 (10) Closing Remarks and Group photo
12:00∼ Networking Lunch

This panel aims to enhance the understanding of Taiwanese students with regard to studying in Europe.

Time: 19:00-21:00 Thursday, 24 May 2012
Venue: Room 203, Sin-Sheng Building, National Taiwan University
Panelist: Angie Hsieh (Project Manager, European Education Exhibition), Fred Chen
(Project manager, Veda International Corp.)

This workshop, designed for postgraduate students researching the EU in Asia, is scheduled to take place on the 4~6 February, 2013, at Kyushu University. The university aims to focus this workshop on the following three fields: economics, politics and law as well as history and culture. Due to the agenda of the workshop, it is only limited to two student representatives at this point. Those who are chosen shall be entitled to return ticket and a grant of JPY 80,000 (part of it as accommodation expenses).

Students who are interested should send the title and the abstract (300-500 words) of the thesis, along with CV—all in English—to Miss Chen of EUTW (ntueutw@ntu.edu.tw) before 30 June 2012. Shortlisted candidates will be announced in mid-July. Thesis in full length (6000-8000 words) should be submitted by 31 December 2012. EUTW reserves the right to the change of recommendation

P.S. Applicants must be a student of a Taiwanese university.

Topic: French Presidential Election and the Future of the EU
Time: May 11, 2012
Venue: Room 129, National Central Library

Agenda:
10:00~10:20 Coffee Break
10:20~12:00 Forum