Project Work of the Hanns Seidel training workshops, compiling subject-specific Foreign Language” was set up. In the process of Foundation: media such as curricula and training plans, and deepening scientific cooperation, the key factor is other vocational training materials. In the currently, among others, the promotion of inter- province of cultural communication as an academic discipline China & Mongolia Gansu and and, in parallel, the development and trial of a China Mongolia neighbouring Master’s programme with a subsidiary subject (e.g. provinces, the business tourism). Together with its core partners, the Ministry of intensive trai- Education, the Chinese People’s Association for ning of teach- The Hanns Seidel Foundation has now been active Friendship with Foreign Countries, the Party ers and tutors in MONGOLIA for over 10 years. We have been School of the Central Committee of the C.P.C. at support cen- working since 1995 with the Mongolian Govern- and the All-China Women’s Federation, the tre schools has ment, represented by the Ministry of Justice and Foundation has actively supported development made it possible to establish a vocational, practice Home Affairs and other partners in the legal field. policy in the PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA oriented training programme in the field of In 1993, the Mongolian Government requested since 1982. The aim of this cooperation is to act as a automobile technology. Since 1999, a total of more support from the Hanns Seidel Foundation with partner to the People’s Republic of China in its far- than 30 master automobile technicians have been reforms in the legal and administrative fields. reaching transformation processes in the social, trained up to German professional standards. At educational, and politico-economic areas by means their schools, they are now passing on their new of consultancy, target-oriented pilot projects as well skills to other trainees. of basic, advanced and further trai- At the same time the expanded infrastructure is used ning for decision- in educational work to support the People’s makers and mul- Republic of China in its social reform processes. tipliers. Thirteen The training centres are for instance used for joint training centres at projects with the All China Women’s Federation so different locations that women from China’s poorest regions can (for instance Bei- apply for professional training courses. This jing, Shanghai, fosters a professional outlook, creating income Nanjing, Wuhan, Shiyan, Weifang, Qingzhou, opportunities for women from these regions and Pingdu, Qingdao, Hangzhou and others) have been thus helping to stem the migration flow into Since then, the Foundation has advised Mongolian established and extended since 1982. In 2005 they prosperous regions. Since 1990, a Programme for legal bodies, such as the Ministry of Justice and were brought together in a regional project. They Village Renewal and Land Consolidation and, Home Affairs, the Constitutional Court, the are closely networked in terms of personnel and since 2004, a National Education and Research Supreme Court, the National University Ulaan- functions and form the basis for concrete project Centre for Land Consolidation and Rural Develop- baatar in connection with national and international work in the promotion of far-reaching reforms in ment support the Chinese Government’s endeavour symposia or advanced and further training activities. China. to facilitate a sustainable improvement in the Advanced training events are offered throughout the quality of the rural population’s working con- year for lawyers and legal experts by the Academy One key area is cooperation with structurally ditions and life as a whole and thus to counteract of Legal Education which was founded in 2001 by weak regions. At twelve support centres in the the increasing exodus from rural areas. the Hanns Seidel Foundation. Thus, the Hanns western province of Gansu, personnel from HSF Seidel Foundation has made a substantial contri- bution to legal structures and the stability of the core projects in the affluent coastal regions operate In 1990, in the context of scientific cooperation, at training courses for multipliers in the field of Qingdao University (province of Shandong) an legal system, and thus to the consolidation of automobile technology as well as methodology Institute for German studies was set up and a democracy in the country as a whole. and didactics. They offer advice in the planning of Bachelors degree programme for “German as a Contact Person in Munich Our Offices in the Region The Work of Institute for International Contact and BEIJING Hanns Seidel Foundation Cooperation (ICC) Ulla Bekel Department V/6 E-Mail: [email protected] world-wide China & Mongolia Head of the Department NANJING / WUHAN Willi Lange Carlito Schroeder E-Mail: [email protected] Phone: +49 (0)89 1258-326 Fax: +49 (0)89 1258-359 PINGDU / QINGZHOU / QINGDAO China & Mongolia E-mail: [email protected] Simon Numberger E-Mail: [email protected] Postal Address: SHANGHAI Hanns Seidel Foundation Roland Hofmann Department V/6 E-Mail: [email protected] Lazarettstr. 33 80636 Munich SHANGHAI / HANGZHOU To obtain further information about Hans Käfler Hanns Seidel Foundation, please go to: E-Mail: [email protected] www.hss.de/4212.shtml WEIFANG / SHIYAN / QINGZHOU Albrecht Flor E-Mail: [email protected] Established in 1967, the Hanns Seidel MONGOLEI / MONGOLIA Foundation is a Ger- Prof. Dr. Tserenbaltavyn Sarantuya man political Foun- E-Mail: [email protected] dation. We are currently committed in the international development cooperation to help run 90 projects world-wide. In Germany, the Hanns Seidel Foundation www.hss.de runs the educational centres Wildbad Kreuth, Banz Monastery and the Munich Conference Centre. Practice-oriented political consul- tancy by means of conferences and publi- cations, political education by means of Hanns Seidel Foundation e.V. Chairman: Dr. h.c. mult. Hans Zehetmair, Minister of State (ret.) seminars as well as scholarships for under- Managing Director: Dr. Peter Witterauf gradutes, graduates and PhD students are the ICC Director: Dr. Rainer Gepperth focuses of our work in Germany. June 2007.