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Stota zemlja. Prva Hrvatica.The hundredth country. The first Croatian.

Schwarzman Scholars jedna je od najselektivnijih stipendija na svijetu — i program u čiju je povijest upisala Hrvatsku.Schwarzman Scholars is one of the world's most selective scholarships — and the programme into whose history she wrote Croatia.

Stopa prihvaćanja ispod tri posto. Sto pedeset stipendista iz trideset i osam zemalja. Stipendija u protuvrijednosti od 150.000 eura, jednogodišnji magisterij na Sveučilištu Tsinghua — najbolje rangiranom sveučilištu Azije — i kampus Schwarzman College, rezerviran isključivo za stipendiste programa. To je deseti naraštaj Schwarzman Scholarsa, u koji je Gabrijela primljena. An acceptance rate below three percent. One hundred and fifty scholars from thirty-eight countries. A scholarship worth the equivalent of €150,000, a one-year master's at Tsinghua University — Asia's top-ranked university — and the Schwarzman College campus, reserved exclusively for the programme's scholars. That is the 10th cohort of Schwarzman Scholars, into which Gabrijela was selected.

A onda i podatak za povijesne knjige: njezinim je izborom Hrvatska postala stota zemlja ikad zastupljena u programu. U godini s rekordnim brojem prijava iz cijeloga svijeta, upravo je hrvatska zastava bila ta koja je zaokružila stoticu. And then the line for the history books: with her selection, Croatia became the 100th country ever represented in the programme. In a year with a record number of applications from around the world, it was the Croatian flag that completed the hundred.

Zašto KinaWhy China

Njezino obrazloženje nije turističko nego pravničko: smatra da međunarodno pravo i globalne politike ne mogu funkcionirati ako Kina — zemlja s golemim utjecajem na druge — nije uključena u samo njihovo stvaranje, i da je razumijevanje načina na koji se međunarodno pravo primjenjuje u Kini moguće steći samo iznutra. Godina na Tsinghui upravo je to: učenje zemlje životom u njoj. Her reasoning is not a traveller's but a lawyer's: she argues that international law and global policy cannot work unless China — a country with enormous influence over others — is included in their very making, and that understanding how international law is applied in China can only be gained from within. A year at Tsinghua is exactly that: learning a country by living in it.

Geslo osnivača programa, Stephena A. Schwarzmana, sažima misiju: oni koji će voditi budućnost moraju razumjeti današnju Kinu. The motto of the programme's founder, Stephen A. Schwarzman, sums up the mission: those who will lead the future must understand China today.
Fotografija — Schwarzman / Tsinghua Photo — Schwarzman / Tsinghua
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