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The University Alliance of the Silk Road (Chinese: 丝绸之路大学联盟, also translated as the Universities Alliance of the Silk Road and abbreviated UASR) is a university alliance formed by Xi'an Jiaotong University, for the purpose of developing People's Republic of China's One Belt, One Road foreign policy initiative. The UASR is a non-profit NGO whose objective is to build educational collaboration and promote economic growth in countries along the Silk Road Economic Belt.
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History
The UASR was founded on May 22, 2015, with approximately 100 universities from 22 countries. With the addition of Washington University in St. Louis in April 2016, the UASR has expanded to 132 universities across 32 countries and regions on 5 continents. The UASR is a non-profit aims to foster openness and tolerance, and promote training and cooperative education and international higher learning platform through the XJTU’s international network with partner universities.
Scope
The UASR aims to support training, research, policy, cross-cultural understanding, and medical service. The UASR includes a significant international alliance of law schools, which Xi'an Jiaotong president Shuguo Wang notes aims ``to promote the exchanges of law among the alliance member countries and focus on legal consensus, in order to serve the Belt and Road development with legal spirit and legal culture." In addition, the UASR sponsors major international cultural events including the UASR Educational Exhibition and Cultural Festival.
Members
Member universities include the following:
Africa
Banha University, Egypt
Asia
Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR
University of Macau, Macau
Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Kazakhstan
Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Kazakhstan
Kazakh Academy of Transport and Communications, Kazakhstan
International University of Central Asia, Kazakhstan
Ishenaly Arabaev Kyrgyz State University, Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyz State University of Construction, Transport and Architecture, Kyrgyzstan
International University of Innovation Technologies, Kyrgyzstan
Waikato Institute of Technology, New Zealand
National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan
Far Eastern Federal University, Russia
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Pusan National University, South Korea
Hanyang University, South Korea
Tajik National University for Research and Sciences, Tajikistan
Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Australia
University of New South Wales, Australia
Charles Darwin University, Australia
Europe
University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Russia
Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Russia
Moscow Power Engineering Institute, Russia
Moscow Aviation Institute, Russia
Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Russia
Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Centrale-Supélec, France
SKEMA Business School, France
Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
University of Torino, Italy
University of Pavia, Italy
University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
North America
Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Physical location
The UASR is headquartered in the Western China Science and Technology Innovation Harbor, with space designed to promote collaborations with partner universities in university-level exchanges, talent education, and scientific research, and of building international think-tanks.
Executive committee
The executive committee of the UASR is populated by a number of leading international academic leaders, including Mark S. Wrighton of Washington University in St. Louis.