eseia, Mediating New Opportunities for Cooperation between China and the EU

written by Daria Delnevo

Education, training and the promotion of renewable resources to ensure a healthy environment represents the common ground on which the European Sustainable Energy Innovation Alliance (eseia) and the Chinese embassy in Austria could start moving the first steps towards a potential collaboration. YANG Shaojun, Counsellor for Science and Technology, and LI Gang, First Secretary of the department for Science and Technology of the Chinese delegation visited the eseia´s headquarter in Graz, Austria, on 22 September. The meeting was also attended by Eva Märzendorfer-Chen, Director of the consulting firm SINOplex, long standing partner of the Alliance for collaborations in Zhongguo, and ZHANG Ziqian, Ph.D. student of the Graz University of Technology, who is working with eseia on the CESEPS project.

Both representatives offered to support eseia in the promotion of its initiatives to the most suitable institutions in China. Possible cooperation could revolve around exchanges and study offers in the framework of the BioEnergyTrain project as well as the participation of China to Horizon2020 calls on nature based solutions against air and water pollution.

Visit of the Chinese Delegation to eseia, 22 September, Graz, Austria.

From left to right: Ramona Oros, eseia Project Acquisition Manager; Soraya Foubert, eseia Project Acquisition Manager; Brigitte Hasewend , eseia Director; YANG Shaojun, Counselor for Science and Technology of the Chinese Embassy; LI Gang, First Secretary of the department for Science and Technology of the Chinese Embassy; ZHANG Ziqian, TU Graz Ph.D. Student.

On the left: ZHANG Ziqian, TU Graz Ph.D. Student; LI Gang, First Secretary of the department for Science and Technology of the Chinese Embassy; YANG Shaojun, Counselor for Science and Technology of the Chinese Embassy. On the right: Soraya Foubert, eseia Project Acquisition Manager; Brigitte Hasewend , eseia Director; Ramona Oros, eseia Project Acquisition Manager.