37 UNIVERSITIES START NEW PARTNERSHIPS WITH UK, INDIA & CHINA LINKS
Collaborations Range from Cancer Research and Robotics to Fashion and Global Public Health
In January 2011, Thirty-seven US universities and colleges were named as the recipients of the British Council’s New Partnership Fund, a new initiative to rejuvenate the partnership between the world’s two leading knowledge economies by providing seed funding to 31 new and innovative British-American higher education projects.
Selected from hundreds of applications, winning projects come from a range of universities, including Yale University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Santa Monica Community College.
Universities were selected based on project proposals submitted jointly with UK universities, ranging from highway engineering and cancer research to harnessing entrepreneurship for social and economic development. The Institute of International Education and the American Council of Education were involved in the selection process.
Over half of the UK’s 200 universities applied for the fund, demonstrating the UK’s demand for developing strategic partnerships with the US.
The 31 projects have all received seed corn grants of up to £20,000 ($30,000) from the British Council, the UK’s international cultural relations organization, to kick-start new research, joint course development and faculty and student exchanges.
The British Council launched the UK-US New Partnerships Fund, a $500,000 program to develop new strategic links between British and American higher education institutions last year. The fund directly supports recommendations from the report: UK-US Higher Education Partnerships:Realising the Potential.
Many of the awards will facilitate third country partnerships, particularly joint US-UK collaborations with India and China. Georgia Institute of Technology, for example, will collaborate with the University of Manchester on a new research partnership with Beijing Institute of Technology’s School of Management and Economics exploring nanotechnology. George Washington University will also work with Oxford University and Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, India on cancer research.
Additional third-country partnerships include links with King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and University del Valle in Cali, Colombia as well as Brazil, Kenya and Rwanda
(A full list of grant recipients, third country partners and research areas is included in the press release below.)
In October 2011, American and UK higher education leaders met at Windsor Castle in the UK to evaluate the progress of the New Partnership Fund projects and discuss next steps in advancing the strategic US-UK higher education partnership.
Learn more:
Read UK-US Higher Education Partnerships: Realising the Potential:
• Full Report – please note, this was commissioned for a UK audience
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