The University Alliance of the Silk Road (UASR) is an academic arm to the People's Republic of China's One Belt, One Road foreign policy initiative. The UASR is a non-profit university alliance based at Xi'an Jiaotong University, a C9 League university in Western China. The mission of the UASR is to build educational collaboration and promote economic growth in countries along the Silk Road Economic Belt.
History
The UASR was founded in 2015 with approximately 100 universities from 22 countries. It currently includes 132 universities across 32 countries and regions on 5 continents. The program has become a central part of the 2016 plan of the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China for educational development along the Belt and Road region via student exchange and joint research.
Scope The UASR was charged with supporting training, research, policy, cross-cultural understanding, and medical service. The UASR includes an international alliance of law schools, which Xi'an Jiaotong president Wang Shuguo notes aims "to promote the exchanges of law among the alliance member countries and focus on legal consensus, in order to serve the Belt and Road development with legal spirit and legal culture." In addition, the UASR sponsors international cultural events including the UASR Educational Exhibition and Cultural Festival.
Members
Notable member universities include the following:
Africa Country/RegionInstitution Banha UniversityThe American University in Cairo
Americas Country/RegionInstitution University of Saskatchewan Peruvian University of Applied Sciences California State University, NorthridgeWashington University in St. Louis
Asia Country/RegionInstitution Beijing International Studies UniversityHarbin Institute of TechnologyLanzhou UniversityMinzu University of ChinaNorthwest A&F UniversityNorthwest UniversityXi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool UniversityXi’an Jiaotong UniversityXidian University Chinese University of Hong KongCity University of Hong KongThe University of Hong KongHong Kong Polytechnic University Iran University of Science and TechnologyRazi University Al al-Bayt University Al-Farabi Kazakh National UniversityNazarbayev University Baku Slavic University University of Macau University of Technology Malaysia National University of Sciences and Technology National University of Singapore Hanyang UniversityKyungpook National UniversityPusan National University Yuan Ze University Chiang Mai University Hacettepe UniversitySabancı University
Europe Country/RegionInstitution University of Antwerp University of Zagreb Tampere University of Technology Centrale-SupélecÉcole centrale de MarseilleÉcole des ponts ParisTechEmlyon Business SchoolNeoma Business SchoolSKEMA Business School Technische Universität Berlin Politecnico di MilanoUniversity of PaviaUniversity of Torino University of GdańskVistula University Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași Far Eastern Federal UniversityITMO UniversityMoscow Institute of Physics and TechnologyNational Research Nuclear UniversityPeter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia University of AberdeenUniversity of Liverpool
Oceania Country/RegionInstitution Charles Darwin UniversityUniversity of New South WalesUniversity of Queensland Victoria University of WellingtonWaikato Institute of Technology
Physical location The UASR is headquartered in the Xi'an Jiaotong University's China Western Science and Technology Innovation Harbor (), with space designed to promote collaborations with partner universities in university-level exchanges, talent education, and scientific research, and of building international think-tanks.
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