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EURASIA-PACIFIC UNINET (EPU)is a university network, founded in the year 2000, which aims at initiating research activities as well as at establishing contacts and scientific partnerships between Austrian universities (including Austrian universities of applied sciences and other Austrian research institutions) and its member institutions in East Asia, Central Asia, South Asia and the Pacific region.

How to become a member?> Expression of interest in a long-term inter-

national scientific cooperation confirmed by the rectors of both the Asian and the Austrian university

> Approval of admission by the EPU network president and the EPU board of trustees

> Signing of the network declaration

> Payment of the annual membership fee

EPU objectivesEPU supports interdisciplinary scientific exchange between its member institutions through:

> Scholarships for Post-Docs and PhD students

> Visiting professorships

> Funding for scientific projects between Austrian and foreign researchers from EPU member institutions

> Maintaining continuous dialogue between researchers of EPU member institutions

Summer courses & practical trainings supported by EPU> Chinese-Austrian-EU Summer School

> China Know-How Summer School

> International Summer University St. Petersburg

> Clinical elective student exchange programme (Austria–China)

> Sino-Austrian Summer School on Chinese Herbal Medicine

> Summer School on Cultural Heritage Conservation (Austria–India)

Further information: www.eurasiapacific.neteurasiapacific@vetmeduni.ac.at

EPU Head OfficePresident: Ao.Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn Wolf-Dieter Rausch University of Veterinary Medicine ViennaVeterinaerplatz 11210 Vienna | AustriaT +43 1 25077-4209 or -4204F +43 1 25077-4290eurasiapacific@vetmeduni.ac.atwolf.rausch@vetmeduni.ac.atwww.eurasiapacific.net

EPU Administrative Office at the OeADEbendorferstrasse 71010 Vienna | AustriaT +43 1 53408-472 or -471www.oead.at

OeAD Cooperation Office ShanghaiAustrian Centre at Fudan University220 Han Dan Lu | Guang Hua LouDong Fu Lou #602200433 Shanghai | P.R. ChinaT +86 216564-2112austriancenter@fudan.edu.cn www.oead.at/shanghai

EPU Offices Beijing

EPU Office at Swissôtel Beijing Hong Kong Macau Center, Apartment 782No. 2 Chao Yang Men Bei Da Jie100027 Beijing | P.R. China

EPU Office at Beijing University International Cooperation Department Health Science Center No. 38 Xueyuan RoadHaidian District100871 Beijing | P.R.China http://english.pku.edu.cn/

EPU Office MongoliaMongolian University of Scienceand TechnologyBaga Toiruu 34Sukhbaatar DistrictP.O.Box 46/520 210646 Ulaanbaatar | Mongoliawww.must.edu.mn/must_en/

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EPU – Joint Research CentresAs a result of numerous scientific activities seve-ral joint research centres have been established since the year 2000. These research centres serve

as a platform for interaction and joint research between scientists of various EPU partner insti-tutions. All centres are open to Austrian scientists

during their research visits in China, Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan.

Mongolia> Austrian Centre at the Mongolian State

University of Science and Technology, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

> Mongolian-Kyrgyz-Austrian Research Centre for Integrated Sustainable Pasture and Grazing Management, Mongolian State University of Agriculture, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia and Naryn State University, Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan> Austrian-Central Asia Collaborating

Centre for GIScience, Kyrgyz State University of Construction, Transportation and Architecture, Bishkek

China> Sino-Austrian Centre for Media and

Marketing, Shanghai

> Austrian-Chinese Centre for Biomarker Discovery / Beijing University Health Science Centre, Beijing

> Austria-China Research Centre for Environ-mental Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling

> Sino-Austrian Collaborating Centre for Chinese Medical Sciences, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing

> Austria-China Research Centre on Tunnel and Underground Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai

> China-Austria Research and Innovation Centre in Logistics, Information Flow, Supply Chain Management and Material Flow, Beijing

> Sino-Austrian Diagnosis, Treatment and Research Centre of Cardiovascular Diseases, Nanjing

> Cooperation Office at Inner Mongolia Uni-versity for the Nationalities, Tongliao, Inner Mongolia

Sigmund Freud University ViennaSt. Pölten University of Applied SciencesUniversity for Health Sciences, Medical

Informatics and Technology (UMIT)University of Applied Arts ViennaUniversity of Applied Sciences KufsteinUniversity of Applied Sciences Technikum WienUniversity of Applied Sciences Upper AustriaUniversity of GrazUniversity of InnsbruckUniversity of LeobenUniversity of Music and Performing Arts Graz University of Music and Performing Arts ViennaUniversity of Natural Resources and Life SciencesUniversity of SalzburgUniversity of Salzburg Business School (SMBS)University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna University of ViennaVienna University of Economics and BusinessVienna University of Technology

PR China (57)Beijing Foreign Studies UniversityBeijing Jiaotong University

Beijing Sport UniversityBeijing UniversityBeijing University of Chinese MedicineBinzhou University ChinaCapital Medical UniversityCapital Normal UniversityCentral South University of Forestry and

TechnologyChina Academy of Chinese Medical SciencesChina ConservatoryChina Europe International Business School (CEIBS)China Pharmaceutical UniversityChina Three Gorges UniversityChina University of PetroleumChina University of Political Science and LawChinese Academy of ForestryChinese Academy of Geological SciencesCity University of Hong KongEast China Normal UniversityFudan UniversityFujian Medical UniversityFujian University of Traditional Chinese MedicineHarbin Institute of Physical EducationHeilongjiang University of Chinese MedicineHong Kong Academy for Performing Arts

Austria (41)AIT Austrian Institute of Technology Alpen-Adria University KlagenfurtAustrian Academy of SciencesAustrian Archaeological InstituteCarinthia University of Applied SciencesCentral Institute for Meteorology and

Geodynamics (ZAMG)Danube University KremsFH Campus 02 University of Applied SciencesFH Joanneum – University of Applied SciencesGraz University of TechnologyIMC University of Applied Sciences KremsInternational Institute for Applied Systems

Analysis (IIASA)Johannes Kepler University LinzMCI Management Center InnsbruckMedical University of GrazMedical University of InnsbruckMedical University of ViennaMODUL University ViennaMozarteum University SalzburgParacelsus Medical University Salzburg ResearchSalzburg University of Applied Sciences

Member InstitutionsWithin the EPU Network there are 152 member institutions representing 13 countries and regions.

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Irkutsk State University Kazan State University of Technology Novosibirsk State University St. Petersburg State University

Kazakhstan (5)Al-Farabi Kazakh National UniversityKazakh Ablai Khan University of International

Relations and World Languages Kazakh National Agrarian University Korkyt Ata Kyzylorda State University University of Central Asia

Kyrgyzstan (8)Issyk-Kul State UniversityJalalabad State UniversityKyrgyz National Agrarian University named after

K.I. SkryabinKyrgyz State University of Construction, Transportation

and ArchitectureNaryn State UniversityNational Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz RepublicOsh Technological UniversityUniversity of Central Asia

Uzbekistan (3)National University of UzbekistanTashkent Institute of Irrigation and Melioration Tashkent State Agrarian University

Hong Kong Baptist UniversityHuazhong University of Science and TechnologyInner Mongolia University for the NationalitiesJilin UniversityMinzu University of ChinaNanchang UniversityNanjing Medical UniversityNanjing Normal UniversityNankai UniversityNorthwest A & F UniversityNorthwest University Xi‘anQiongzhou UniversityShandong Academy of Medical SciencesShanghai Conservatory of MusicShihezi UniversitySouthwest University for NationalitiesSun Yat-Sen UniversityThe Chinese University of Hong KongThe Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityThe University of Hong KongTianjin UniversityTongji UniversityUniversity of MacauWuhan UniversityWuhan University of Science and TechnologyXiamen University Xi‘an International Studies UniversityXi‘an Jiaotong UniversityXihua UniversityXinjiang Medical UniversityYinchuan Energy Institute (Yinchuan University)

Taiwan, China (4)National Chung Hsing University National Taiwan UniversityTaipei Chinese Culture UniversityTaipei Tamkang University

Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (2)Kim Chaek University of TechnologyKim Il Sung University

Republic of Korea (3)Konkuk UniversitySeoul National University Yonsei University

Mongolia (5)Health Sciences University of MongoliaMongolian Academy of SciencesMongolian State University of AgricultureMongolian University of Science and Technology National University of Mongolia

Russian Federation (8)Baikal National University of Economics and LawBuryat State UniversityEast-Siberian State University of Technology Irkutsk State Medical University

Tajikistan (4)Tajik Agrarian University named after

Shirinsho ShotemurTajik State Medical University named after

Abuali Ibn SinoTechnological University of Tajikistan University of Central Asia

Nepal (3)International Centre for Integrated Mountain

Development (ICIMOD)Kathmandu University (KU) Tribhuvan University

Bhutan (1)Royal University of Bhutan

India (8)Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural

UniversityGuru Nanak Dev UniversityManagement Development Institute (MDI)National Museum InstitutePostgraduate Institute of Medical Education

and Research (PGIMER)University of MadrasUniversity of PuneW.B. National University of Juridical Sciences

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