"Chinese Bridge" is a world-wide Chinese language competition, where the participants have a chance to win a trip to China to participate in the final against other non-native Chinese speakers.

This year’s local Chinese Bridge Competition was held on April 9, 2013 at Copenhagen Business School. To open the competition the director of CBCI--Mr. Verner Worm, the representative of Chinese embassy—Mr. Xu and the device country manager of the Chinese company Huawei—Jing Cui all made warm welcome speeches.

The formal competition included three rounds which are language, culture and performance. Our student Terese Aaberg from the 9th grade at Klostermarken Skolen in Aalborg participated the competition. She did a presentation about her spare time, answered two questions about Chinese culture and language and showed her skills in Chinese calligraphy. Competing against students from high school, of whom most had studied Chinese for three years, in the end Terese did not win the competition. However, she won this year’s prize of excellence.Terese is doing a presentationTerese is showing her calligraphy

On Friday 8 March the Confucius Institute at Aalborg University arranges and open door New Year event at the Learning Center at Boulevarden 13. Everyone is welcome and it is for free! The doors will be open between 10.00 – 15.00.

Our CI Chinese teachers have prepared an exciting programme on Chinese language and culture:

• Free Chinese language lessons
• Chinese calligraphy, painting and paper clip.
• Taichi performance
• Tea ceremony and Chinese snacks
• Exhibition of Chinese cultural items and culture quiz
• Chinese shuttle cook game outside

The event is for everyone who is interested in China and Asia and everyone else too!

On Friday 8 March the Confucius Institute at Aalborg University arranged en open door New Year event at the Learning Center at Boulevarden 13.

There were more than 200 people came and enjoyed Chinese tea ceremony, Tai Chi, Calligraphy,painting and music performance.Tea ceremony for participates to taste the Chinese tea.Our Tai Chi master Ren Yi demonstrated the technique of Tai Chi.Li Xuan is playing Traditional Chinese instrument – Guqin.CI-Staff Wang Li is showing Chinese calligraphy culture.CI-staff Ruan Youjin is giving Chinese language lessons..

On 13 February 2013, Frederikshavn High School organized China Day for their students. Confucius Institute Chinese teacher Du Peng and our former colleague Morten Appeal had been invited to give students a firsthand classes about Chinese language, culture and international politics. The day serves as preparation for their trip to China, where they will be in Beijing and Suzhou, they will interview young Chinese people on the street to hear their views on being young in China, their dreams for the future and to Western, especially American culture.

Du Peng first gave a presentation on Chinese youth culture and the Chinese education system. The students gained that young Chinese people have busy schedules and huge pressure of expectations lying on their shoulders. Then Morten gave an overview of the Chinese foreign policy with special emphasis on the relationship with the United States. For lunch, students were given permission to cook a Chinese meal, the so-called HotPot, a sort of Chinese cooking. Last but not least, students were dressed linguistically and culturally to their trip to China. How to start a conversation with a stranger in China and how to write simple Chinese characters? It was an exciting end to an exciting day.

You can see the pictures here and video here

From 19th to 21st November, Confucius Institute Aalborg collaborated with Kongerslev School to organize a China week for the whole school.

Activities in this China week included Tai Chi, Chinese calligraphy, Chinese language and cultural classes. There were Tai Chi practices instructed by our CI teachers for more than 60 students and teachers every morning. In different classes, students learnt basic Chinese greeting language, the basic culture of Chinese family life, school life and society life. Besides, students also learnt to write Chinese traditional calligraphy. Both of the teachers and students show great interests to Chinese language and culture.

At the end of the China week, a gathering party for teachers, students and parents were held. This China week was a great success, which received positive responses from both students and teachers.Students and teachers practice Tai Chi every morning.Students are writing Chinese traditional Calligraphy.Student shows his handcraft Chinese dragon before a Chinese Calligraphy wall.

The 17th August, CI received a gro up of students from Hangzhou Entel Foreign Language School and Beijing Yucai School. They spent one week in Denmark on a study trip. In cooperation with Gug school, Aalborg Cathedral school and Sønderbro school, CI had invited the group to come to Denmark. The students experienced the Danish school system and also Danish family life, since they lived with their fellow Danish students throughout the week. Midweek the students went on camp school to Blokhus. The environment here invited the students to take walks in the sand dunes and on the beach. At dinnertime the students helped preparing their own dinner and also lunch for the following day at Fårup fun park.

Saturday morning the Chinese students went on a short tourist trip to Copenhagen before returning home to China.Exchange visit in Aalborg

On 28 June 2012 Aalborg University and the Confucius Institute received a delegation from Hefei, Anhui province. Hefei is the sister city of Aalborg since 1989, and Aalborg University has cooperated with Hefei University of Technology for over 20 years.

The delegation consisted of representatives of the Hefei and Anhui government, including the Chairman of the People's Congress Huang Tongwen.

After paying president Finn Kjærsdam of Aalborg University a visit the delegation toured the CI Learning Center at the Mayor's office in down town Aalborg.Chairman Huang and president of AAU Finn KjærsdamThe Hefei delegation pays a visit to the CI Learning Center with Administrative Director Thorsten Haensel and Chinese language teacher Bao Rui

Congratulations for the opening of Music Confucius Institute at Royal Danish Academy of Music

On 16 June, the world's first Music Confucius Institute at the Royal Danish Academy of Music hold a signing and opening ceremony in Copenhagen. This Music Confucius Institute is established in cooperation between the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and the Royal Danish Academy of Music.

We look forward to cooperating in the future.AAU CI Administrative Director Thorsten Haensel presented the painting by Esben Hanefelt for Confucius Institute to Directors Marianne Løkke Jakobsen and Qiao Jiajia from the Music Confucius Institute.Our Administrative Director Thorsten Haensel met the administrative director of Hanban, Ms. Xu Lin.

AAU CI congratulates the successful opening of the Musical Confucius Institute once again and we look forward for our collaborations in the near future.

From 26 to 29 March, Confucius Institute Aalborg collaborated with Sønderbro School to organize a China week for the whole school.

Activities in this China week included Taichi, Chinese calligraphy, painting, Chinese language and cultural classes. There were Taichi practices instructed by our CI teachers for more than 200 students and teachers every morning. In different classes, students learnt to make traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting, as well as to learn basic Chinese language communication skills.

At the end of the China week, a gathering party for teachers, students and parents were held as rounding up the week. This China week was a great success, which received positive responses from both students and teachers, and Sønderbro School will start Chinese language and culture courses in fall semester 2012. Morning practise of Taichi Parents joined the students and teachers to do Taichi at the gathering party. Chinese calligraphy of “China” and “Denmark” made by student.

The above pictures are from Sønderbroskolen website.

In the beginning of this month, 2 Feb to 5 Feb, a group of Chinese student from Hangzhou in South China came to visit Aalborg for 4 days. The Confucius Institute collaborated with Gug Skole and the Chinese Academy of Sciences arranged a short exchange program for them. Each Chinese student was assigned a homestay family from Gug Skole. The Chinese students then followed their homestay buddy to experience the Danish learning environment and lifestyle.


In school, both Danish and Chinese students experience different cultural encounters during different activities. Chinese students shared their Chinese traditional paper cutting and painting skills with Danish students Table-football matches: China vs. Denmark


On the 4th Feb, the CI organized a dinner gathering for all the Chinese students with their homestay families at Jincun Restaurant in Aalborg. Around 120 people participated.While eating Chinese food the Chinese students shared their chopstick technique with their host family


Throughout this exchange program, we received a lot of positive feedbacks from both the Chinese students as well as the Danish families. During the Chinese students’ visit, naturally communicative misunderstandings arose. But these misunderstandings made everyone even more aware of the importance of intercultural understanding. From this successful experience, we look forward for future similar collaboration and exchange program between Chinese and Danish schools.