Guidelines and recommendations for international scientific cooperation
(in thematic-chronological order)
Focus Indo-Pacific
- Guidelines of the Federal Government on the Indo-Pacific (02.09.2020). Germany - Europe - Asia. Shaping the 21st century together. (PDF-Download)(Opens in a new tab)
- Progress report on the implementation of the Federal Government's guidelines on the Indo-Pacific (13.09.2021). (PDF-Download)(Opens in a new tab)
- DAAD/ KIWi (2022): KIWi KOMPASS. Guide to university cooperation between Vietnam and Germany. January 2022 (PDF-Download)(Opens in a new tab)
- EU Strategy for Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific (21.02.2022)(Opens in a new tab)
Focus PR China
- German Association for Chinese Studies (DVCS) (29.12.2018): Recommendations for action by the German Association for Chinese Studies on the interaction of German academic institutions with the People's Republic of China. (PDF-Download)(Opens in a new tab)
- The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS) (31.01.2019): Checklist for Collaboration with Chinese Universities and Other Research Institutions. (PDF-Download)(Opens in a new tab)
- Human Rights Watch (21.03.2019): Resisting Chinese Government Efforts to Undermine Academic Freedom Abroad. A Code of Conduct for Colleges, Universities, and Academic Institutions Worldwide. (PDF-Download)(Opens in a new tab)
- Scholars At Risk (2019): Obstacles to Excellence. Academic Freedom & China's Quest for World Class Universities. (PDF-Download)(Opens in a new tab)
- The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (2019): The China Defense Universities Tracker.(Opens in a new tab)
- Federation of German Industries (BDI) (2019): Policy paper China. Partner and systemic competitor - How do we deal with China's state-controlled economy?(Opens in a new tab)
- National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and Chinese Academy of Sciences (2019). Beijing Declaration on Basic Science, 09.09.2019(Opens in a new tab)
- German Rectors' Conference (HRK) (2020): Key questions on university cooperation with the People's Republic of China. Resolution of the HRK Executive Board of 09.09.2020. (PDF download)(Opens in a new tab)
- Ingrid d'Hooghe, Jonas Lammertink (2020): Towards Sustainable Europe-China Collaboration in Higher Education and Research, LeidenAsiaCentre (LAC). (PDF-Download)(Opens in a new tab)
- Ministry for Education and Culture Finland (2022): Recommendations for academic cooperation with China, Helsinki: Publications of the Ministry of Education and Culture 2022:11.(Opens in a new tab)
- Gerold Heinrichs, Laura Klueting (2022): Annotated collection of guidance for secure and successful international R&I cooperation. (PDF-Download)(Opens in a new tab)
- The MIT China Strategy Group (2022): University Engagement With China. An MIT Approach. Final Report November 2022 (PDF-Download)(Opens in a new tab)
General
- German Council of Science and Humanities (WR) (2018): Recommendations on the internationalization of universities, Munich, 06.07.2018.(Opens in a new tab)
- German Research Foundation (DFG) (2019): Guidelines for Safeguarding Good Scientific Practice. Code.(Opens in a new tab)
- German Rectors' Conference (HRK) (2020): Guidelines and standards in international university cooperation. Resolution of the HRK Executive Board of 06.04.2020. (PDF download)(Opens in a new tab)
- Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (2020): Bonn Declaration on Freedom of Research, 20.10.2020. (PDF download)(Opens in a new tab)
- DAAD Competence Center for International Academic Cooperation (KIWi) (2020): KIWi Compass: No red lines. Research cooperation under complex conditions. Criteria - Guidelines - Sources. December 2020 (PDF download)(Opens in a new tab)
- Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on the Global Approach to Research and Innovation (2021): Europe's strategy for international cooperation in a changing world. Brussels, 18 May 2021 COM(2021) 252 final.(Opens in a new tab)
- VSNU (2021): Framework Knowledge Security Dutch Universities, 08.07.2021. (PDF download)(Opens in a new tab)
- DAAD (2021): Daring to take more responsibility in a globally networked world. Ten positions of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) on foreign science policy in the 2020s, October 2021 (PDF download).(Opens in a new tab)
- Leibniz Association (2021): Risk management in international scientific cooperation, October 2021 (PDF download)(Opens in a new tab)
- European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (2022): Tackling R&I foreign interference: staff working documen. Publications Office of the European Union, 18.01.2022. (PDF-Download)(Opens in a new tab)
- DAAD (2022): Foreign Science Policy for a Multipolar World. System rivalry, confrontation and global crises, July 2022 (PDF-Download).(Opens in a new tab)
- German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and German Research Foundation (2022): Wissenschaftsfreiheit und Wissenschaftsverantwortung - Empfehlungen zum Umgang mit sicherheitsrelevanter Forschung/ Scientific Freedom and Scientific Responsibility - Recommendations for Handling of Security-Relevant Research, Halle (Saale), 01.11.2022. (PDF-Download)(Opens in a new tab)
Legal framework/ export control/ compliance management
- Federal Office of Economics and Export Control (BAFA) (2019): Export control in research & science. (PDF-Download)(Opens in a new tab)
- Federal Office of Economics and Export Control (BAFA) (2019): Handbook for export control and academia. (PDF-Download)(Opens in a new tab)
- European Commission (2021): Commission Recommendation (EU) 2021/1700 of September 15, 2021.(Opens in a new tab)
- Niels Kaffenberger, Sarah Morgenstern (eds.) (2021): China's specific regulatory framework on data and how it impacts EU-China R&I collaboration, EU Research and Innovation Knowledge Network on China. (PDF-Download)(Opens in a new tab)
- Katrin Kinzelbach, Ilyas Saliba, Janika Spannagel, Robert Quinn (2021): Free Universities. Putting the Academic Freedom Index Into Action. (PDF-Download)(Opens in a new tab)
- Thomas Pattloch (2022): R&D-related data laws of the People's Republic of China: Guideline, November 15, 2022 (PDF download)(Opens in a new tab)