EU-China High-Level People-to-People Dialogue (HPPD)

At the fourteenth EU-China Summit held in Beijing on 14 February 2012, leaders of the two sides agreed to establish the EU-China High Level People-to-People Dialogue (HPPD).

The EU-China HPPD, the third pillar of EU-China relations, will complement the two existing pillars – the High Level Economic and Trade Dialogue and the High Level Strategic Dialogue. The HPPD will be the overarching mechanism, which will accommodate all EU-China joint initiatives in the field of people to people exchange.

On 18 April 2012 the EU and China held in Brussels the first round of the HPPD. On that occasion Commissioner Vassiliou and State Councillor Liu Yandong signed an HPPD Joint Declaration and endorsed a document with follow-up actions.

• Joint Declaration on the first round of the "EU-China High Level People-to-People Dialogue"
• Follow-up Actions of the first round of the EU-China High Level People-to-People Dialogue (HPPD)
• Press release "Education & culture: EU and China launch people-to-people dialogue"

As a follow-up to the first round of the dialogue, an HPPD Forum was held in Flagey in the afternoon of the same day. More than 500 people from both EU and Chinese side participated in the event. The aim of the Forum was to provide a lively platform for dialogue, discussion and exchange of ideas on Education, Youth and Culture issues. Three parallel sessions and a plenary closing session with both leaders were held to discuss current and future EU-China cooperation in these fields.

• Report of the Education Session: "The 21st Century Student: Learning in a Globalised World"
• Report of the Youth Session: "Being young in a globalised world: mutual perceptions and perspectives of young Chinese and Europeans"
• Report of the Culture Session: "Culture, perceptions and Media in EU-China relations"
• Speech of Commissioner Vassiliou at plenary session
• Speech of State Councillor Liu Yandong at plenary session
• List of participants in the Forum

Recent initiatives

The EU and China have been closely cooperating in the last few years on education & training, culture, multilingualism and, from 2011, youth policy.

• Joint declaration on education, training and culture (2007), Joint declaration on multilingualism (2009), Joint declaration on youth .

• 2012 EU-China Year of Intercultural Dialogue

• 2011 EU-China Year of Youth

• Joint studies on EU-China student exchanges and new skills for new jobs
  
  • EU and China: Race for Talent - Relevance and Responsiveness of Education and Training
    Report - Executive Summary
  • EU-China Student and Academic Staff Mobility: Present Situation and Future Developments
    Report - Executive Summary

• Scholarships for EU nationals to learn Chinese in China

• EU-China High-Level Cultural Forum (October 2010)

• Erasmus Mundus and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology at the Shanghai Expo (August 2010)