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 workshops will be executed and working papers developed. Plans further include an international summer school for students and doctoral candidates of the participating institutions.

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.