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Among other invited speakers and academics, Karsten Luc held a lecture on the topic “(Media) Images of Europe and China”. The lecture took place in Shanghai in August 2017.

The Global Business Exchange Programme, commissioned by BMZ and implemented by GIZ, aims at connecting small-medium enterprises in Morocco, Columbia, Peru, and Germany

On March 31, 2016, AKRYL was invited to talk about social media and new media in China at the Young Professionals Seminar of the German Chamber Commerce China.

On November 19, 2015, Karsten Luc presented his study Images of Germany on China’s social media at an internal workshop of the German Consulate in Shanghai.

Shanghai – On November 23, 2015, Karsten Luc held a guest lecture on social media for students of the MSc Global Media and Communications, a joint programme by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Fudan University.

On November 18, 2015, Karsten Luc held a presentation of his MERICS study “Mesut Özil. Merkel. Made in Germany. Germany images in China’s social media.” at the Tongji University in Shanghai.

AKRYL created and designed this online platform. To promote the development of an aligned QI, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi)

In the March 2015 issue of the EURObiz magazine, produced by the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, Karsten Luc provides some advice on how SMEs in China can defend themselves against cybercrime.

At the Social Media Week, Ben von der Recke gave insights on the topic What we can learn from Asia’s social media hype.

We re-launched the DAAD Beijing online platform (www.daad.org.cn). We were responsible for the design and the technical implementation. The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is