LSE BIOS - together with a series of European and Chinese partners, including Peking University, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing Genomics Institute were awarded funding for the EU’s BIONET project. This is a major initiative in Chinese-European co-operation focussing on the ethical governance of biological and biomedical research in China and Europe over the next five years.

For further information, please see BIONET

DART

Columbia University and the London School of Economics are partners in this international project. Digital Anthropology Resources for Teaching (DART) aims to explore the potential of digital resources for the teaching of undergraduate anthropology. The project will also investigate digital-library technologies that will allow for the flexible delivery and customised use of these resources.

For further information, please see DART

ESRC EU-China-WTO Research Seminar Network

The EU-China-WTO Research Seminar Network, based at the London School of Economics, aims
• To provide a forum for discussion of relations between the EU, China and the WTO, involving scholars, legal practitioners, non-governmental organisations and policy-makers from the UK and abroad
• To analyse the principal factors shaping relations between the EU, China and the WTO
• To compare the participation of the EU and China within the WTO
• To identify important issues and propose solutions to difficult common policy problems
• To sustain an interdisciplinary research network bringing together academics, practitioners and policy-makers
• To train research students and young researchers and stimulate increased research in this emerging policy field
• To set the agenda for future research through seminars and publications.

The EU-China-WTO Research Seminar Network holds regular seminars at the LSE. The seminars explore relations between the European Union, China and the World Trade Organisation. Speakers and participants come from universities, think tanks and governments in the UK, the EU and China, non-governmental organisations, the European Commission in Brussels, the Chinese Government in Beijing and the WTO in Geneva. Topics so far or planned include participation in the WTO, implementation of WTO law in the EU and China, Special and Differential Treatment in WTO law, WTO law and domestic regulation, resolution of trade disputes, antidumping, intellectual property, food safety, implementation of environmental law in China, public sector enterprises, and regional integration and developing countries.

The Network is supported by a grant from the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to Professor Francis Snyder, Centennial Professor at the LSE Law Department and EU Jean Monnet Chair ad personam, the only Jean Monnet Chair in the world specialised in relations between the European Union and China.

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