To celebrate the 50th anniversary of China-Belgium diplomatic ties, Sichuan University organised a conference on "Understanding the Future Visions of European Integration" on 19 November 2021. The conference was held both online and offline in Chengdu, joined by BACES partners across China and Europe including Renmin University of China, Fudan University, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, University [...]

BACES grows, University of Sofia joins BACES, the Brussels Academy for China and European Studies, is a platform for exchanging new ideas concerning contemporary China and China-Europe relations. It promotes understanding and critical analysis in this area. BACES was officially launched in China, at Diaoyutai State Guest House in Beijing, on 6 September 2014 [...]

CALL FOR PAPERS: The EU, China and Central Asia: Global and Regional Cooperation in A New Era The Brussels Academy for China and European Studies (BACES) in collaboration with the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS) invites proposals for participation in the workshop “The EU, China and Central Asia: Global and [...]

China’s Grand Strategy 22 March 2018, Egmont Palace, Place du Petit Sablon 8, B-1000 Brussels Along with the rapid economic growth, China’s influence in world affairs increased tremendously in the last years. The 19th Party Congress of Communist Party of China in October 2018 and the 13th National People’s Congress in March 2018 set out [...]

Workshop on EU-China-US Trilateral Relationship in an Uncertain World 28 September 2017, at the Egmont Palace, Place du Petit Sablon 8bis, 1000 Brussels. Given the importance of the EU, the United States and China for the global system, what are the prospects for trilateral cooperation in different policy areas? It might have seemed strange [...]

Report from the International Conference on BRICS and Global Governance, 8 September at the Egmont Palace, Brussels. The Role of the BRICS in the World, an international conference which was successfully held in Brussels just three days after the BRICS summit in Xiamen (China from 3-5 September). Supported by five embassies of the BRICS [...]

BACES has produced a leaflet explaining in broad terms what the platform stands for, when it was founded, what its mission and purpose is, and gives a very short overview of some of the projects it is currently involved in, such as those in connection to investment, innovation & technology transfer, competition, and governance & representation. [...]

6-7 July 2017-  Workshop: EU-China relations: actual conditions and future perspectives The workshop "EU-China relations: actual conditions and future perspectives" (Ghent University, 6-7 July 2017) was, on the one hand, the logical follow-up to the workshop "Opportunities and Challenges: China-EU Regional Cooperation in One-Belt-One-Road" held at Sichuan University from 22 to 24 May 2017, and, on the other [...]