Chang Zhu is professor in Educational Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Prof. Chang Zhu coordinates the LEAD (Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education) project (from 2015-2018); and from 2013-2016 she was project coordinator of the EU-China DOC project under the EU Erasmus Mundus Program. Prof. Chang Zhu is director of the EU-China Higher Education Research Center (ECHE), the Online and Blended Learning Competence Center, and the Belgian Director of the Confucius Institute at VUB. She is promoter and principal investigator of several key fundamental research projects in the field of higher education, internationalization, university governance, academic leadership, international academic mobility, student competence and literacy development, and educational innovations.