CIPnet Project: II Training of Trainers in Zhanjiang, China

On March 2019, the II Training of Trainers took place in Zhanjiang (China), organized and hosted by Lingnan Normal University. The Training was attended by more than 60 participants from 14 Chinese Higher Education Instituions.

During this training, entittled "Intellectual Property Policies for Universities. The Aim, the Structure and the Content", the participants discussed IP Policies at the Universities, from the general overview of the role and importance of IP Policies to the universities, to the basic content of IP Policies, to the specific issues to be covered by IP Policies.

IP Policies adopted by EU partner universities were presented as examples, as well as other model solutions, IP protection strategies, commercialization routes, revenue sharing and incentives for university researchers. The final module of the Training was devoted to management of copyrighted research results.
 
The workshops were delivered by international experts from the European partner universities: 
- Dr. Dariusz Kasprzycki and Dr. Jakub Chwalba, Intellectual Property Law Chair of Jagiellonian University;
- Ms. Noelia López, Senior Project Manager, International Project Management Office, University of Alicante;
- Mr. Rafał Malujda, Attorney at Law, Patent Attorney.

Additionally, Mr. SHEN Jian, Director of IP Management Office, Deputy Director of Science and Technology Construction at Renmin University of China, delivered a keynote speech on IP management practices at universities in China.