China Competence course

This year's course at the Centre for Cultural Studies on Science and Technology in China at TU Berlin concluded on 21 February 2026 with the workshop ‘Intercultural Communication’. The topics covered in the 2025/2026 winter semester were:

• Philosophical traditions, history, society and economics

• Technology, digitalisation, innovation

• Urbanisation, ecology, climate

• Research and higher education policy, foreign, cultural and education policy

• Workshop on intercultural communication

In addition to specialist lectures by renowned experts in the field of Chinese studies, there were lively discussions with the participants.

Lecturers: Tania Becker, Ágota Révész, Alexander Brown, Thomas König, Katja Levy, HAN Zheng, Till Ammelburg, Michaela Böhme, Eva Sternfeld, Johannes Küchler, Susanne Stein, Sigrun Abels, XIAN Peixin, Markus Taube, Wolfgang Röhr, Thorben Pelzer, Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer, Dr. Elke Spielmanns-Rome

All participants, including Oliver Völckers from BeST Sensor GmbH, were presented with a certificate at the end of the course.

Photos above with Tania Becker, below left Elke Spielmanns-Rome, below right Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer

The programme was led by Dr Tania Becker and Dr Sigrun Abels. It is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

Location: Online via Zoom and in person at the Technical University of Berlin, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Germany

More information:

https://www.tu.berlin/china/studium-weiterbildungen/weiterbildungen/kursuebersicht

https://www.tu.berlin/china

https://www.bmftr.bund.de/EN/Research/InternationalAffairs/Asia-PacificRegion/China/china_node.html