Vienna, 6 September 2024 – After an initial meeting with CDA at his office in the Center for Molecular Medicine in 2023 Professor Lars Y. Terenius from Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm visited our CDA headquarters office in Vienna on 6 September 2024. Being a Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA) Lars is the European Chairman of our CDA Scientific Advisory Board. CDA President Alexander G. Welzl together with CDA Vice President Markus Stender introduced Lars Terenius in the genius loci of Palais Lieben Auspitz and its splendid history. After internal strategic talks focusing on formats, fields and topics of collaboration between European and Chinese universities, research institutions and actors in the respective National Innovation Systems Professor Terenius and President Welzl followed the invitation of Professor Melanie Malzahn, Chair of the Academy Council of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), to join her as guests at a conference at the OeAW which marked the kick-off of the Cluster of Excellence ‘EurAsian Transformations’. The invitation came as a result of a previous bilateral meeting between Malzahn and Welzl following panel contributions of both of them at a Sino-European conference taking place at University of Vienna with a focus on the history of cultural connectivity and economic collaboration of peoples along the silk road from ancient times until the 21st century.