【西非漫谈】利比里亚的教育制度( 四 )


3.建立一个西非研究智库。中心结合海内外成员单位的学科优势与研究特色,致力于西非经济、政治、人文交流的研究,加强与加纳“伊曼尼政策教育中心”(全球智库排名113)、“统计、社会和经济研究院”(全球智库排名164)等西非智库组织合作,加强联合研究、发布与承接西非研究课题,为中国政府及西非国家提供政策咨询,在教育与人才培养、科技服务、经济与企业管理及公共与政治管理等方面为国家提供高水平智库服务,发展成为具有一定影响力的西非研究智库中心。
四、中心成员单位
西非成员单位:加纳大学、加纳海岸角大学、加纳行政管理学院、加纳温尼巴教育大学、加纳发展大学、西非校友会。
电子科技大学成员单位:公共管理学院、经济与管理学院、外国语学院、国际教育学院、马克思主义教育学院、科学技术发展研究院、机械与电气工程学院、信息与软件工程学院。
五、中心信息化建设
中文网站:https://cwas.uestc.edu.cn/sy.htm
英文网站:https://cwas.uestc.edu.cn/English/Home.htm
微信公众号:gh_bfde9ecc926a(公众号名称:电子科技大学西非研究中心)
六、联系方式
电话:0086-028-61831756/61831706
邮箱:cwasuestc@163.com
通讯地址:成都市高新区(西区)西源大道2006号电子科技大学清水河校区西非研究中心综合楼450办公室。About Center for West African Studies of UESTC
1. Introduction
TheCenter for West African Studies of University of Electronic Science andTechnology of China (CWAS of UESTC) is a research center jointly established byUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), University ofGhana (UG), University of Cape Coast (UCC), Ghana Institute of Management andPublic Administration (GIMPA), University of Education, Winneba (UEW), and Universityfor Development Studies (UDS) in April 2017. The Center is based in the Schoolof Public Affairs and Administration at UESTC and is headed by ProfessorShuRong Zhao.
Theestablishment of CWAS is an important initiative of UESTC to pursue China’s“Philosophy and Social Sciences ‘Going Global’ Strategy” and a beneficialpractice for UESTC to build an international interdisciplinary research systemand a new type of high-level “Think Tank”.
InMarch 2021, the CWAS of UESTC was accredited by the Ministry of Education ofChina as the Center for National and Regional Studies for Universities.
2. Research Direction
Research Targets: Focusing on Ghana, Benin, Senegal, and othermajor West African countries and West African regions.
Research Areas: China-West Africa politic science, economic andsocial development, public administration, education, literature and culture,etc.; China-West Africa economic and trade cooperation; China-West Africaintergovernmental relations.
3. Mission and Goals
TheCenter for West African Studies, together with five member institutions ofuniversities in Ghana, UESTC Alumni in West Africa for West African Studies, andthe Ghana Chinese Chamber of Commerce, strives to create a "1 + 1 +1" new research model of China-Africa cooperation, which integrates a TalentTraining Base, an Academic Exchange Platform and a Think Tank for West Africanstudies. It aims to:
(1) To serve as aTalent Training Base. The Center helps to expandthe source of international students from West Africa and enrich themulti-level international student training system of UESTC for undergraduate,master, and doctor. Also, it carries out overseas cadre training, teachertraining, customized ICT and engineering training, and summer practice programsfor students in West Africa, and devotes itself to building a diversified anddistinctive overseas talent training base which integrates academic education,on-the-job training and practical training, and cultivates local talents forChinese enterprises to address economic and social development problems. (2) To build an AcademicExchange Platform. Through regularly holdinginternational academic conferences such as Forum on West African Studies,organizing China-Africa Friendship—Academic—Culture Exchanges Month, andpromoting overseas exhibitions of 3D platforms for cultural resources andChina-West Africa International Industry-Academia-Research Cooperation Project,the Center is committed to building a platform for China-Africa exchanges andcooperations in various fields such as academics, humanities, science andtechnology, and enhancing the influence and cultural soft power of Chineseuniversities and enterprises in Africa.(3) To establish a ThinkTank for West African studies. The Center iscommitted to research on economic, political, and humanistic exchanges in WestAfrica by utilizing the disciplinary strengths and featured research of itsmembers both in China and abroad. It works to strengthen cooperations with WestAfrican think tanks such as the Imani Center for Policy Education (ranked 113in global think tanks) and the Institute for Statistics, Social and EconomicResearch (ranked 164 in global think tanks) as part of efforts to enhance jointresearch, and collectively publish and undertake research projects on WestAfrican studies. The Center also aims to propose policy advice to the Chinesegovernment and West African countries, provide high-level think tank servicesfor China in fields covering talent training, science and technology services,economic and business management, and public and political governance. And, italso strives to become an influential think tank center for West Africanstudies.

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