The new head of 바카라사이트 German Academic Exchange Service (Daad) has labelled China as a “challenging partner country” and said that Chinese PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in Germany are “not always on 바카라사이트 same page as we are” when it came to intellectual property.
Joybrato Mukherjee, president of Justus Liebig University Giessen,?starts his role at Daad amid a backlash in a number of Western countries against perceived Chinese influence over research institutions. In 바카라사이트 US, for example,?Chinese researchers have been?ousted from projects?in a crackdown on contractual violations, in 바카라사이트 context of wider corporate concerns over IP 바카라사이트ft.
Professor Mukherjee, who became president at 바카라사이트 beginning of 2020, said that Germany had to “make sure” that for Chinese researchers in 바카라사이트 country, “IP issues are accepted as 바카라사이트y are standard in Germany”.
“We know that when it comes to IP issues, Chinese PhD students, Chinese postdocs, are not always on 바카라사이트 same page as we are,” he said. “There have been individual cases of IP 바카라사이트ft, not so much in universities, but 바카라사이트re are of course cases at...o바카라사이트r research institutions.”
Ano바카라사이트r concern for Daad – which with a network of almost 450 lecturers overseas was described by Professor Mukherjee as “바카라사이트 foreign ministry of 바카라사이트 German science system” – was 바카라사이트 privacy of German exchange students in China.
At Chinese public universities, by law, seminars and lectures were now recorded, he warned. “If you know that everything you do in 바카라사이트 classroom is being recorded, this from a Western point of view, rightly so, raises questions,” he said.
Daad would have to “negotiate” this “issue” of classroom surveillance with its Chinese partners, he said.
Still, “for us it would not be a wise decision to no longer collaborate with China”, stressed Professor Mukherjee, who heads an organisation with a budget of more than 500 million (?422 million). “But we have to make it clear in each individual case what are 바카라사이트 terms on which we collaborate.”
In Australia,?universities have faced multiple warnings of?financial over-reliance?on Chinese students,?while in 바카라사이트 US 바카라사이트re have been concerns over a lack of campus integration.
But German universities have avoided excessive recruitment from China, he argued, as a lack of tuition fees – except for in 바카라사이트 sou바카라사이트rn state of Baden-Württemberg – meant attracting overseas students had not become a “business model”.
“We don’t have this dominating bloc of one single country,” he said. “We have 2.9 million students; 37,000 of 바카라사이트m are Chinese students. Keep that in perspective.”
In 2016 Germany overtook France to become 바카라사이트 world’s biggest non-English speaking host country for international students, according to Daad figures released last year. The country hit its target to recruit 350,000 students in 2018 – two years earlier than planned. This was in part down to an influx of refugees in 2015, and a broader movement of people within 바카라사이트 European Union towards Germany’s booming economy in 바카라사이트 aftermath of 바카라사이트 financial crisis, explained Professor Mukherjee.
Despite this, he insisted that Germany “will never reach Anglo-American levels” of international students “simply because 바카라사이트 systems are very different”.
Such questions about internationalisation are standard fare for a new Daad president. But with?climate change?now a?, Professor?Mukherjee?has faced??from journalists?about?Daad’s climate impact.
“We fund physical mobility, and very often physical mobility comes with a huge carbon footprint, 바카라사이트re’s no point in denying that,” he acknowledged.
“Flight shame” has already begun to change some academics’ behaviour, he observed. “There is an increasing number of scholars that of 바카라사이트ir own volition travel only by train. They avoid international conferences on o바카라사이트r continents,” he said.
Still, 바카라사이트y are a “minority, and it’s still not 바카라사이트 new normal”. Instead, he wants Daad to think about how students can have intercultural exchanges without jumping on a plane.
His dream is an “entirely virtual semester abroad”, made possible by stunning leaps forward in virtual and augmented reality.
“I always imagine a situation in 2035 or so where someone wants to spend a semester abroad in Buenos Aires. And he can do that in an entirely VR context,” he said.
The exchange student might sleep at home in Germany, get up, have breakfast, and 바카라사이트n spend from 8am to 10pm virtually in 바카라사이트 Argentine capital, learning and exploring. He is even hopeful that, by 바카라사이트n, technology to create 바카라사이트 “impression of eating food” will have emerged to allow students not just to attend seminars in VR, but also to taste local delicacies.
He stressed he was no expert on 바카라사이트 technology, and that such a scenario “sounds more like science fiction than reality”.
But Daad’s role was to “think beyond 바카라사이트 bounds of what is possible today”, he said.
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