British Council jointly issues funding under BRI plan

The Ministry of Education and the British Council recently announced the recipients of the first round of seed funding under the UK-China-BRI Countries Education Partnership Initiative. And they included Peking University, Dalian University of Technology, the University of Leeds and King's College London.

As part of the funding, an initial 420,000 pounds ($527,000) of the investment will be provided to nearly 30 universities from 12 countries most of which are involved in the Belt and Road Initiative, to help deepen cooperation mainly in the fields of healthcare, food safety, advanced manufacturing, renewable energy, and global leadership transformation.

Zhang Jin, vice-director of the Department of International Cooperation and Exchanges at the Ministry of Education, says that the initiative is the ministry's first multilateral collaboration with a European country within the framework of the BRI, which aims to partner with more countries in higher education to resolve shared global challenges.