Euro China Centre

About the Euro-China Centre

China's role in the world becomes increasingly prominent and its business environment is changing rapidly. Managers, government officials and representatives of NGOs as well as interested individuals need to be better informed about and prepared for the opportunities and challenges in this dynamic and growing environment. The Euro-China Centre (ECC) at the 'Universiteit Antwerpen' Management School (UAMS) was established in 2002 to provide a knowledge learning, sharing and exchanging platform about China's economy and of its socio-cultural, political, administrative and business environment. The Centre brings together the vast experience of its academic staff with its vast experience in research projects and training programmes with Chinese universities, government institutions and companies for more than a decade - with the available extensive expertise in management education of UAMS.
The Euro-China Centre aims:

To develop close links between Chinese and European, Belgian and Flemish universities, government institutions and the business communities in order to promote knowledge creation and exchange;
To promote the 'Universiteit Antwerpen' and UAMS in China through joint/offshore degree programmes and executive training programmes;
To carry out tailor-made training programmes for Chinese and Belgian organisations/enterprises;
To initiate research projects focusing on the Chinese economy and relevant management issues;

Education

Open programmes

The Centre has developed the following executive training programme for Belgian and Chinese managers

Dealing with China: maximising the business opportunities and avoiding the pitfalls
InChina programme: Market penetration and expansion
China's Local Management Development (CLMD) programme

Tailor made programmes

The centre also organised a number of tailor made training programmes for Chinese government institutions or enterprises

Since 2001, ECC organised more than 20 tailor-made programmes for Chinese government institutions and companies with the participation of about 400 Chinese government officials and managers from China's Ministry of Personnel, Ministry of Information Industry, Shanghai Municipality, Shaanxi province, Shandong province, Zhejiang province, Jiangsu province, Liaoning province, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Shanghai Petrochemicals Corp., etc. These programmes were based on the specific needs of the visiting groups and covered different areas, such as HRM in the public sector, IT management, project management, higher education management, IPR issues, etc.

Cooperation in education

The Centre cooperate with several Chinese universities in a number of master degree and executive training programmes