Consortium of Chinese and European Research Institutions IPRNME

CO-REACH, the network of European support institutions for science and technology, which support cooperation with China in natural sciences, medicine, technology as well as in the social and human sciences, has decided to promote a consortium of Chinese and European Research Institutions, IPRNME (Intellectual Property Rights in the New Media Environment).

The main objective of the project is to foster the exchange of knowledge about regulatory concepts with regard to copyright and intellectual property for the Information Society and their implementation, as well as jointly work on concepts of regulatory choice to meet new challenges that are brought about through social and technological change in new media environments. For this purpose, joint working papers will be developed and workshops as well as international summer schools for students and doctoral candidates will be executed. Summer schools will take place in Xi'an, Nanjing, and Shanghai in summer 2010. Even students at the Faculty of Law at Hamburg University will discuss questions if internet legislature in China.

The workshop hosted by the Institute in Hamburg in May 2010 dealt with law enforcement on the Internet and thereby created synergies with the innovation workshop.

The partners are the Institute of Law of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Strathclyde University, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Molengraaff Institute for Private Law at Utrecht University, and the Hans Bredow Institute.

For Germany, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) participates in CO-REACH. 

• Website of the CO-REACH IPRNME project
• Website of the CO-REACH programme