Company: Innovation Centre Denmark, Shanghai

Type: Internship

Starting date: August 1. 2013

Starting date: February 1. 2014

Innovation Centre Denmark, Shanghai promotes innovation and R&D-collaboration between Denmark and China through our extensive network of Danish and Chinese technology companies, universities, research institutions, authorities and others key players. We are a joint initiative under the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Danish Ministry for Science, Innovation and Higher Education. You can read more about us at www.icdk.um.dk

We offer a dynamic workplace in an international environment with a team of 19 Danish and Chinese colleagues two of which are also interns. We have a large and diverse portfolio of assignments within the fields of ICT - information and communication technology, clean tech, design and life science. A background in communications is an advantage, although not a demand.

You will work with a wide range of tasks within external and internal communication such as writing articles, press releases and case stories, maintaining our website as well as working on communication plans, and social media profiles etc. Additionally, you will contribute to the administrative tasks during peak periods. However, besides the day to day communication tasks you will have opportunity to influence your tasks and responsibilities, and target them to your field of interest.

We offer:

• Hands-on experience in diplomatic work/missions as well as experience working with external and internal communication.
• Insight in Danish business, R&D and innovation opportunities in China.
• Close cooperation as an equal player with our innovation consultants.
• Professional and personal development.

 You are:

• Studying a master's degree at a Danish university (required), preferably within communication.
• Curious about innovation in China.
• Full of initiative and energy.
• Fluent in spoken and written English.
• Possessing good analytical skills.
• Good at working independently and managing several tasks at a time.

 The internship is unpaid, but the innovation centre will compensate for some housing expenses with 2800 RMB per month. It is a condition of the internship that you pass a security clearance by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The intern is responsible for handling practical issues regarding housing, insurance, vaccinations, etc. The type of visa you will be granted only has one entry, and therefore you cannot leave mainland China during your internship.

Submit your application (in English) and attach résumé, grades and recommendations to lihani@um.dk before March 31st 2013. If you have any questions, please contact the current communication intern Lise Haar Nielsen by email (lihani@um.dk) or phone + 86 21 6085 2014.

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Half an hour before the badminton friendly was started, all players, administrative staff and family members to students from SDC came to the gym. Players began warm-up, while the administrative staff from SDC prepared courts, rackets and balls for the players.

As we all know, Denmark is famous for its badminton players and China is one of the great nations of the badminton sport. SDC won the most games played by Danish men, however, REC's overall level was very high in both men's and women's games. Based on the principle "Friendship first, competition second", the badminton friendly carried on in a happy and harmonious atmosphere. The badminton friendly was a great success and all participants received a small present from SDC for their hard work.

Sports activities can not only enrich the student's life after school by offering them a chance to do exercise, but also provide the students with a chance to learn more about badminton and to strengthen the communication between students.

The students agreed to continue the friendly game next year.

The party was arranged the Zhong Dan Team which is the SDC students' social club. The Zhong Dan Team aims to bring SDC students together to interact and have fun, so for the Zhong Dan Team the holiday season seemed like the perfect excuse for a party. And a party it was! The Chinese students got a chance to see how Christmas is celebrated in Denmark, and a little hint of homesickness was spurred in the Danish students, by bringing the traditions from home out east. The most important goal of the Christmas party was, though, to recreate a lot of the special Danish concept 'hygge' - cosy togetherness and relaxation with the people you care for.

The celebrations started in the afternoon, where hours were spent on making Christmas decorations for the Christmas three. The art of plaiting paper hearts and stars was shared, and the traditional Danish Christmas decorations got a new twist with the Chinese traditions of making paper lotus flowers and other beautiful decorations. The afternoon was also spent baking and decorating Christmas cakes, and it began to dawn on the Chinese that Danish Christmas has one major focus: Eating!

The night was filled with the smell of roast duck and red cabbage form the traditional Danish Christmas dinner. The students performed on stage, first from the Scandinavian tradition of the lucia procession, where a train of white clad girls sing about bringing the light out in the dark times. Next He Kunyi played traditional Chinese music on the Pi Pa, a Chinese string instrument that filled the room with the most harmonious sounds.

After desert everyone gathered for dancing and singing around the Christmas tree. The songs in both English Danish and Chinese were enjoyed despite the untraditional element of having about 100 people to walk around a 1.2 meter high tree. The long day ended with an energy boost during the present game. Everyone had brought a small gift for the game, and the dices rolled with great speed in the struggle to get the best and the most presents.

And what a wonderful day it was - to share traditions, talks and laughs and enjoy the company of the lovely SDC students and teachers in the holiday times.

To make international exchanges easier, many universities are establishing a physical presence in another country, particularly in Asia. In 2010, the eight Danish universities and the Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences created the Sino-Danish Center for Education and Research near Beijing. Work has begun on a new building for the center, which has a goal of 100 researchers, 100 Ph.D. students, and 300 Master's students by the end of 2013. European and Chinese students gain research experience on collaborative projects and take classes together in English, led by Danish and Chinese professors.

"Personally, I think it's a great opportunity for students," says Hans Gregersen, executive director of the Sino-Danish Center. "They'll get a degree with Danish and Chinese accreditation and multicultural experience. We hope they'll learn the language. About 500 Danish companies are active in China, and we think these and other companies will want to employ our students after they graduate."

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This one day conference + dinner will focus on EURAXESS as a global network for researchers linking Europe to the world. The participants will be invited to exchange in a friendly atmosphere with speakers from both Europe and China (as well as online speakers from Japan, India, Singapore and the USA) on how to use science as an engine for growth and how to create an attractive environment for international researchers.
A new job searching tool will be officially launched at the end of the conference.

We warmly invite you to register now and to spread the invitation to your contacts from research, academic and business circles! (all nationalities welcome)

Registration website: https://www.mci-registrations.com/euraxess/default.aspx<https://brumail.intrasoft-intl.com/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=https://www.mci-registrations.com/euraxess/default.aspx>

More details about the event can be found below:

Organised by DG Research and Innovation of the European Commission, EURAXESS Links China and EU Delegation S&T team, the conference will be a great occasion for the European and Chinese research communities to get together and interact with policy leaders from Europe and China, as well as with eminent representatives of the business research and development sector and representatives of the research communities in the other regions of the world where EURAXESS is also present (USA, Japan, India, ASEAN). With EURAXESS Links China based in Beijing, EURAXESS Links USA, Japan, Singapore and India will be connected online to the event with researchers' testimonials.

Following the opening ceremony, the conference will continue with two sessions in the morning and three parallel workshops in the afternoon, with a closing session celebrating the opening of the job dimension in the EURAXESS Links websites.

Mr. Markus Ederer, Ambassador of the EU Delegation to China, will give a welcome speech at the opening of the conference, and Mr. Robert-Jan Smits, Director General for Research and Innovation at the European Commission, will address the closing session with a key-note speech.



The School is intended for PhD students as well as undergraduate students, who will become PhD students after the present academic year. However, experienced scientists from other disciplines, entering the fields of plasma physics and nuclear fusion, also participated. The topics stretched from materials for fusion reactors to stability of tokamak plasmas, from plasma turbulence to plasma heating mechanisms and diagnostics. The autumn school was well attended with participation of 45 students from various Chinese Academy of Science Universities and Institutes in China. They had the opportunity to get first hand lectures by leading experts in the fields, giving insight in basic and actual unsolved problems in fusion plasma physics.

There was allotted amble time in the programme for discussions in plenum and also individual discussion with students on particular items. The students were active and interested. At the end of the school we offered a voluntary test, which about half of the students chose to take. They also provided useful feedback on the structure and contents of the lectures, which will be included in the planning of future events.

The teaching activities were augmented by social meals and a banquet on the first evening of the school, which gave the students and teachers a way to acquaint with each other.

At the end of the autumn's school, basic physics knowledge was demonstrated and put to practical use during Chinese - Danish table tennis matches.

The next Plasma Physics Autumn School is planned for the second week of September 2013.



Scientific discussions and collaboration were a further intense part of the stay. At the photo, you see the organisers of the autumn school, Guosheng Xu, Hefei and Volker Naulin, DTU Physics.

MSc/PhD: MSc Public Management & Social Development

Enrolment date: September 2012

Expected graduation: July 2015

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MSc/PhD: MSc in Public Management & Social Development

Enrolment date: September 2012

Expected graduation: June 2015

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MSc/PhD: MSc in Public Management & Social Development

Enrolment date: September 2012

Expected graduation: July 2015

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MSc/PhD: MSc in Water & Environment

Enrolment date: September 2012

Expected graduation: July 2015

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