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Nov 10, 2024

In Memoriam: John Hearn, WUN Executive Director 2009-2018

Professor John Hearn concludes his work as WUN’s Executive Director on 31 July 2018

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Jun 26, 2024

A look back at WUN AGM 2024

A look back at AGM 2024 Click Here

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Mar 20, 2024

Registration open for WUN Online Seminar Series: Responsible and Ethical AI for Future Actions Training Program

Date: 5-24 April, 2024 Venue: Online via Zoom Meeting Platform For more information and to register visit: https://www.ict.mahidol.ac.th/en/event/responsible-ethical-ai/#1709622785290-d47d0b12-c7cf

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Mar 12, 2024

Upcoming webinar: How can indigenous language revitalisation be decolonised?

Date: Friday 15 March, 2024 Time: 5-7pm (ICT time) Venue: Online via Zoom Meeting Platform

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Nov 27, 2023

Investigating Global Warming and Urbanisation Impacts on Megacity Environments: Observations and Multi-Scale Modelling 

  To learn more about this WUN supported research project please visit our page.

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Jun 24, 2021

Modelling marine microplastics: international workshop explores new challenges

Did you know that teabags are made of plastic? Do you know where that plastic ends up? With WUN funding, a team of researchers led by Professor Bruce Sutherland (University of Alberta) are learning how to predict the movements of microplastics after their entry into water systems. Click through to read more about their recent workshop and their goal to help policy-makers take action.

Feb 10, 2021

WUN special program for early career researchers off to successful start with focus on SDGs 4 and 13

WUN recently held the first set networking workshops as part of its special program for early career researcher (ECR) entitled “Developing the next generation of research leaders for sustainable development.” The first two, of which there will be 17 in total, focused on SDG 13: Climate Action, and SDG 4: Quality Education, respectively. Click through for a summary and videos of the keynote talks.

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Feb 10, 2021

A planetary health pledge to unite health professionals in the Anthropocene

The inVIVO Planetary Health network, which has its origins in a 2012 WUN Research Development Fund grant, pursues positive change that reflect the link between people and place. In a November 2020 publication in The Lancet, researchers from inVIVO appealed for health professionals to pledge their dedication ‘to the service of humanity, and to the protection of natural systems on which human health depends.’ We asked experts around the Worldwide Universities Network for their perspectives on the pledge and its effort to expand the interpretation of ‘first do no harm’ to reflect human connections to the planet. Click through for more.

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Dec 08, 2020

Policies for pandemic response: how is evidence shaping action?

Researchers and policy experts from across the globe are collaborating to monitor and analyse the role of evidence in policy-making during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their data cover more than 100 countries, publicly accessible in the INGSA COVID-19 Evidence-to-Policy Tracker. Click through to read more about this WUN-supported initiative.

Nov 22, 2020

Cheap, consistent, clean? Changing the models for sustainable electricity access

In Ghana, the term “dumsor” (literally meaning “off-on”) is a term that was born to describe the periods of electricity blackouts in 2015 when the country experienced persistent and intermittent power outages. Though access to electricity is widespread, communities in different regions confront challenges of reliability, cost, and safety.

Click through to read about how the WUN-funded research group SEN-Africa is working on new models that incorporate the range of stakeholder priorities.  

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Nov 18, 2020

WUN research group to hold international symposium: Digital Health In COVID-19

The International Symposium on Digital Health is an annual event that connects international experts and professionals from the healthcare and engineering sectors in the promotion of interdisciplinary research in digital health. Click through to learn more about this upcoming free virtual symposium.

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Nov 04, 2020

Lift-off for WUN’s early career researcher networking series

Why do we have the Sustainable Development Goals and why are university collaborations essential in making progress on them? Hear from Peter Lennie, WUN Executive Director, and special guest Jeffrey Sachs, President of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, as they launch a new WUN networking initiative for early-career researchers working on the world’s biggest challenges.  

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Nov 03, 2020

WUN research group to hold international symposium: 2020 A Year Without Public Space

A WUN Interdisciplinary Research Group is hosting an international symposium that reflects on the challenges and opportunities in thinking about what counts as public space during a global pandemic. WUN Executive Director Peter Lennie and Chair of Global Higher Education and Research Global Challenge Chair Jose Escamilla, join PI Hendrik Tieben to discuss ‘Campus as Public Space in the Age of Pandemics’.  Click through for the program and registration information.

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Nov 02, 2020

Africa and the Sustainable Development Goals

We are delighted to invite you to the virtual launch of the Worldwide Universities Network Global Africa Group book, Africa and the Sustainable Development Goals. Attendees are invited to meet the editors of Africa and the Sustainable Development Goals and participate in a live Q&A session with its contributors.  Click through for full details and to register for the event.

This is one of the first academic publications to comprehensively and critically engage with the intersection of the Sustainable Development Goals and African development agendas. It presents multidisciplinary research that captures the necessary complexity and breadth of the theory and practice of sustainable development on the continent. 

Click through for full details and to register for the event.

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Sep 24, 2020

Setting a new standard for COVID-19 testing

With a potentially large proportion of COVID-19 cases showing no symptoms but still infectious, sensitive and accurate methods of testing for the virus are essential to reduce the dangers of transmission within communities. A newly established WUN research group is helping to refine testing methods of testing for SARS-Cov-2.

Click through for the full story.

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Sep 24, 2020

Restoring the invisible: new network to explore Indigenous epistemologies

The ways of thinking and knowing developed in Indigenous cultures have long been marginalised within the academy and in public life, including in approaches to the environment, migration, and justice. Dr June BamHutchison (University of Cape Town) is leading a collaborative network that aims to restore understandings of Indigenous concepts, enrich existing scholarship, and help to develop new approaches to todays global challenges.

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Sep 23, 2020

International Development Program for Early Career Researchers

WUN, in collaboration with UNESCO and the UNSDSN, will hold a series of free virtual networking workshops for early career researchers under the theme of ‘developing the next generation of research leaders for sustainable development’. The workshops will bring together early career researchers from all around the world interested in establishing connections to colleagues in their field.

Click through to learn more about this exciting program and to register for the inaugrural event.

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Sep 21, 2020

Healthy cities and community needs: reconfiguring public spaces in the age of pandemics

Some of the most striking spaces of the twentieth century were conceived with the modernist ambition to make urban living healthier. In the twenty-first century, the COVID-19 crisis and the changing use of public space is encouraging a return to such thinking. These debates have crystallised discussions of how to make public spaces work best for local communities—questions that the WUN group on sustainable, healthy cities has been exploring in their research and practice for several years.  Click through to discover more.

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Sep 20, 2020

WUN Profile: Martin Paul completes his term as chair

During his productive term as Chair of the Partnership Board, Martin Paul (President of Maastricht University) challenged WUN to think harder and more sharply about the areas in which it can be most valuable. While it was founded to harness the benefits of multilateral collaboration in research, in recent years WUN has developed additional ways to benefit its members. ‘With networks you benefit from them only if you are an active partner,’ a belief that underpinned his engagement with and investment in WUN.

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Sep 20, 2020

WUN welcomes newest member Makerere University

We are delighted to announce that Makerere University has joined the Worldwide Universities Network.  WUN warmly welcomes Vice Chancellor Barnabas Nwangwe and colleagues as partners.  Click through to learn more.

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Sep 14, 2020

Webinar on restarting research during the pandemic: summary of insights from across five continents

The third instalment of WUN’s webinar series sharing experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic focused on research: how universities are managing priorities during campus closures and conditions on returning to work. Click through for a summary and recording of the event. 

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Sep 04, 2020

Global study on the pandemic’s impact on university staff and student wellbeing

An international consortium of WUN member universities along with WUN+ partners is examining the experiences of staff members and students at universities around the world, seeking to reveal the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on their mental health and wellbeing. Click through to learn about the project and to access their global survey for academic staff members.

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Aug 24, 2020

CUHK Study Suggests Hot Nights Pose Greater Threat to Public Health

A study done by the Institute of Future Cities at CUHK reveals that hot nights pose greater threat to public health than hot days and better urban planning and building design are needed to mitigate the impact.

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Jul 29, 2020

WUN Executive Director presents to high-level UN meeting on universities and the SDGs

Peter Lennie discusses the importance of collaborative networks at the Sustainable Development Solutions Network ‘University Sector Support to UN Secretary-General’s Call for a Decade of Action on the SDGs: A Meeting of Presidents of Universities’. to an audience of university and United Nations leaders.

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Jul 28, 2020

Maintaining student engagement and attention online: insights from the latest WUN webinar

In the second of the WUN webinars on challenges universities are facing during the COVID-19 pandemic, teaching and learning experts shared their experiences and techniques for helping students stay engaged with their courses during online delivery.  Every university in the Network has been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic and has had to adapt at pace. However, these common challenges have taken diverse forms and prompted distinctive solutions, with each university responding to a specific and locally grounded set of dynamics.  

Click through for a summary of the discussion and to watch a video of the webinar in its entirety.

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Jul 09, 2020

Awards Announcement: Addressing Research Needs Triggered by the Pandemic

WUN is pleased to announce the results of its 2020 special initiative to address research needs triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Eight awards were made to support time-sensitive research projects whose value depends on being able to collect or analyse data obtained during the pandemic, and on which the collaboration of WUN partners confers real advantage. Awarded project teams are comprised of researchers from across 19 WUN member universities.  

Peter Lennie, Executive Director of WUN, said “We had an overwhelming response to this special call, and received many strong and exciting proposals. The eight successful projects take special advantage of member universities’ cultural and geographical diversity in tackling urgent and important problems that have arisen from the pandemic.”

Click through to learn more about the awarded projects.

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Jul 08, 2020

Maintaining Student Engagement and Attention During Remote Course Delivery

WUN is hosting a series of webinars to help member universities benefit from each other’s experience in addressing some of the unprecedented pandemic-related challenges facing them.  The next in our series, to be held on Thursday 23 July will discuss the challenge of maintaining student engagement and attention during remote course delivery.

Universities around the network have deployed various approaches, reflecting the different geographical and cultural contexts in which they work, to help keep students engaged as classes have shifted from the classroom to computer screen.  In this webinar we will explore what successful strategies have emerged, what we’ve learned from failures, and how the diversity of experiences from around the network can help inform each of us as we continue to teach remotely.

Click through to learn more and register for the webinar.

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Jun 19, 2020

University of Lausanne joins WUN

We are delighted to announce that the University of Lausanne (UNIL) has become the newest member of WUN.

Rector Nouria Hernandez noted that “UNIL is very excited to join WUN and to contribute to its development. We are particularly enthusiastic about the focus of the network on research activities and collaboration, and above all the fact that it addresses major contemporary challenges. These issues are also high on UNIL’s agenda.”

WUN Executive Director Peter Lennie added, “The distinctive strength of the network lies in its capacity to bring together major research universities from different parts of the world to collaborate on solving global challenges—particularly those related to sustainable development. In joining WUN, the University of Lausanne adds significantly to our strengths, and to our effectiveness in addressing research challenges.”     Click through to read the full story.

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Jun 15, 2020

Sustainable Oceans Series: Highlighting Sustainable Development Goal 14 – Life Below Water

(22 June series update)

Following World Oceans Day, WUN is pleased to share a presentation of a series of articles in which United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) presents ocean science from WUN member the University of Bergen, UNAI’s Hub institution for SDG 14: Life below water in the Sustainable Ocean Series. 

We will be sharing four features from this project, a new article to be published each Monday, and also highlight what WUN research teams are doing to address the future of our oceans.  Click through for more.

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Jun 08, 2020

Mental health and COVID-19: How WUN universities are supporting their students

Before COVID-19 there were transnational trends in student mental health as well as local particularities, as students face adjustment challenges, the demands of a competitive environment and external pressures like finances and employability.

As the pandemic and related containment measures take hold, click through to learn about how WUN universities are supporting students’ mental health.

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Jun 07, 2020

African landscapes facing climate change: using an integrated approach to mitigate impacts

Through transdisciplinary research the WUN Interdisciplinary Research Group on Climate Resilient African Landscapes is building insights into how different stakeholders use and shape the places they share. The group has established practitioner partnerships and is capitalising on regional and global academic networks.

Click to read more about the approach they are taking as their work continues.

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May 10, 2020

WUN Research Mobility Program: Ideas in motion

In this story, we hear how two WUN member researchers benefited from new connections made through the Research Mobility Program: Colin Chu, who worked with engineers at the University of Rochester, and Victoria Rivera Ugarte, who collaborated with social scientists at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Click through to learn more about their discoveries and plans.

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May 04, 2020

Climate and shock: resilience in food production systems after COVID-19

As the coronavirus pandemic spreads, interruptions to public services and the imposition of social distancing have had major impacts on global agriculture and food supply. Professor Mark Eisler of the WUN supported Global Farm Platform discusses likely impacts of the crisis and the potential for rebuilding systems in more environmentally and economically sustainable way. 

Click through to read more.

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May 04, 2020

Trauma, climate change, and maternal health: increasing impacts, trans-generational effects

Stressors and traumas such as violence and abuse, the effects of poverty, and the experience of emergencies or disasters have a major impact on the health of pregnant women and their children.

As the impact of climate change multiplies the threats, understanding why and how we can make effective and early interventions is paramount.

Click through to read the full story.

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Apr 28, 2020

Student Mental Health During the Pandemic

WUN is hosting a series of webinars to help member universities benefit from each other’s experience in addressing some of the unprecedented pandemic-related challenges now facing them.  Each webinar will last an hour, and will be organised around the sharing of insights about a specific challenge, followed by a broad Q&A.

The focus of our first webinar, to be held on Tuesday 5 May (click through for local times) will be student mental health.  The webinar will begin with the sharing of both research and practice insights and experiences from members of the WUN Student Mental Health Working Group. This will be followed by a broader discussion with all attendees.

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Apr 02, 2020

Call for proposals: WUN addressing research needs triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic

To enable WUN as a network to best address research needs triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic, WUN is making available a limited number of grants for collaborative projects that focus on research challenges related to the present pandemic, and are urgent and of the moment.

We therefore welcome special requests to support projects that a) should be undertaken now, because circumstances will be less favourable later; b) benefit particularly from collaboration among WUN partners (e.g., capitalize on the geographical and cultural diversity of the network).

Click through for full details.

Mar 31, 2020

WUN Annual General Meeting 2021 Announcement

Although we won’t be able to gather this year for the 2020 WUN Annual General Meeting (AGM), we are excited to announce the dates for WUN AGM 2021!

Working with Tecnológico de Monterrey, we have been able to confirm arrangements for the WUN AGM 2021, which will take place in Monterrey, Mexico from 17-21 May 2021. 

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Feb 24, 2020

New consortium to bring interdisciplinary insights on climate-induced migration

While disasters and environmental factors have always been important drivers of migration, even more people are expected to move as they face the projected impacts of climate change, including more extreme weather events, changes in water quality and availability, and interactions with conflict. 

A recent ruling of the UN Human Rights Committee, which stated that people cannot be sent back to countries where climate change impacts place them in immediate danger, was treated by many commentators as a landmark protection for environmental migrants. As Professor Andreas Neef (University of Auckland) explains in this feature, the reality is more complex. Recipient of a 2020 WUN Research Development Fund award, a WUN member consortium will advance interdisciplinary research into climate-induced migration. It aims to help improve policies through a better understanding of the complex drivers of migration and displacement associated with climatic changes.  Click through for the full story.

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Jan 20, 2020

WUN Summer School

UPDATE: The WUN Summer School, originally scheduled for July 2020, has been postponed to 2021 due to covid-19 developments.  The information and application website will be re-opened for the 2021 program in due course. 

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Dec 20, 2019

WUN Research Development Fund 2019 Results

WUN is pleased to announce the results of the 2019 round of the Research Development Fund (RDF) applications.  These awards, which facilitate collaborative research among WUN universities, will bring our financial investment in establishing new WUN Interdisciplinary Research Groups (IRGs) to more than £170,000 over the past six months.

From among 31 applications, we have been able to support 15 projects from the RDF.  Notably, all 23 WUN member universities are represented on awarded projects research teams in this round.  These new projects join 88 existing IRGs that have engaged over 2300 researchers across the Network.

Since 2009 the WUN Research Development Fund (RDF) has directly invested over £2 million to establish research projects on problems of global significance, and on which member universities, working together, can make distinctive progress.

Dec 20, 2019

Infections and allergies: a cross-generational riddle

In 2015 a WUN-funded research collaboration among the Universities of Bergen, Cape Town, and Southampton set out to understand whether parasite exposure is having an impact on allergy rates. Their research since suggests that the answer is yes, but exactly what is happening and why remains a mystery.  Click through to read the full story.

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Dec 13, 2019

Action research for a cleaner future

Not just talking, but doing: with funding from the WUN Research Development Fund, academics from four WUN universities got together with experts and decision-makers in Accra to combine forces on global waste management. Professor Shyama V. Ramani and PhD researcher Ms Maria Tomai talk here about their recent activities.

Dec 13, 2019

Inclusive research supporting women’s integration

Public debates about marriage migration are vulnerable to a series of misconceptions, often conflating migration with trafficking and undermining the agency of the women who migrate. The WUN Marriage Migrants in Asia research group is addressing these misconceptions with interdisciplinary research that aims to inform regional policy. Click through to read more about their activities and the thinking behind them.

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Nov 29, 2019

WUN funding helps lay foundation for international cooperation on digital health

New technologies are capturing different information about health and treatments, opening up new pathways for more efficient and effective care. With its distinctive collaborative model, the WUN Digital Health Research Network has founded a new international society and is developing methodologies for studying and evaluating digital health innovations.  Click through for the full story.

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Sep 26, 2019

New paper probes data diplomacy’s expanding role

The convergence of data and diplomacy and its far-reaching effects are the focus of a new academic paper by WUN-affiliated researchers published in Science & Diplomacy.

Data Diplomacy was co-authored by Andy Boyd (Bristol), Jane Gatewood, (Rochester), Stuart Thorson, (Syracuse)  and Timothy Dye (Rochester).  The publication reflects insights from the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) symposium on data diplomacy held at the Academy of Medicine in New York in October 2015.  It also names symposium delegates who lent their expertise in the areas of public health and translational research, governance and public policy, and data sharing and management to investigate the intersection of data and diplomatic engagement.

The paper shows data to be a two-edged sword: used to empower communities by granting them cultural capital and opening diplomatic possibilities, and as a tool to manage citizens’ behaviour. (Click through to full story.)

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Sep 26, 2019

Smart research, smart policy, smart care

By 2050, the world’s population of people over the age of 60 will double, which has significant implications for sustainable development. The World Health Organisation’s Decade on Healthy Ageing 2020–2030 calls for concerted, catalytic and collaborative action to improve the lives of older people, their families and the communities in which they live.  PI Professor Ka Lin (Zhejiang University, China) says the WUN-funded research he’s been leading has yielded several significant findings in this area since the collaborative project kicked off in 2018 with the construction of a new analytical framework that brings innovation studies together with elderly care studies.

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Sep 26, 2019

WUN’s legume research – a lynchpin to global food security

WUN’s Legume Network is building a global reputation for research excellence – paving the way for pulses to be embraced as crucial allies in the fight against climate change, hunger, obesity and other threats to world health.

In 2018, the network was awarded a sustainability grant from WUN to bolster its efforts to secure large-scale, transnational funding to establish a centre of excellence and associated nodes of research.  “Large-scale funding will ensure we tackle major challenges in legume biology as a unified world-leading academic community of excellence, driving WUN bioscience forward in this key area,” says PI Associate Professor Michael Considine (UWA). 

WUN’s Legumes Network comprises dozens of leading scientists across 12 institutions from five continents. Since its launch in 2015, the number of papers published relating to legumes and climate change has tripled from under 20 to more than 60 per annum – many connected directly to the network.  (Click through to full story.)

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Sep 26, 2019

CROP-FS tackles gritty issues of global food security

The WUN-sponsored project Crop-FS (Climate-resilient open partnership for food security) is a consortium of 24 highly reputed international researchers engaged in conducting cutting-edge research to develop climate-resilient crops, microbial communities, and soil amendments for improving crop productivity under extreme environments. 

PI Prof Om Parkash (UMass Amherst) explains that since its launch in 2016, the consortium has grown exponentially with more than 14 universities and institutions across five continents now involved. (Click through for full story)

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Sep 19, 2019

University of Bergen awarded large EU project on migration

University of Bergen researcher Hakan G. Sicakkan will lead a new EU-backed project on migration. The PROTECT project has been awarded EUR 3.3 mill from EU´s Horizon 2020 programme for the next 5 years. The project, which will closely follow the United Nations’ two new global compacts on migration and refugees, includes 11 partner institutions from Europe, Canada and South-Africa and will start 1 February 2020.

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Sep 13, 2019

Fostering Energy Leadership: UAlberta provides global perspectives in 2019 WUN Summer School

The University of Alberta set the stage for student discovery in the areas of traditional energy development, future energy systems, environment, and land reclamation by hosting the Worldwide Universities Network Summer School this July. 

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Jul 08, 2019

Maastricht University leading alliance to create one of the very first “European Universities”

WUN member Maastricht University, which leads the Young Universities for the Future of Europe alliance, has recently been awarded a large grant by the European Commission to set up one of the very first models of European Universities.  WUN is strengthened when our member universities extend their reach internationally, and we congratulate Maastricht University on this notable achievement.

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Jun 26, 2019

WUN Annual General Meeting 2019

From 19-24 May, 230 participants from WUN member universities came together for the Network’s Annual General Meeting Week 2019, hosted by University College Dublin.

Peter Lennie, Executive Director of WUN noted, “Our hosts at UCD provided a marvellous environment for a most productive meeting that highlighted both the achievements and the great potential of WUN. Several important initiatives have resulted from the meeting, and I’m confident they will bring considerable benefit to the partnership.”

WUN would once again like once again to thank President Andrew Deeks and the organising team at University College Dublin for their generous support in hosting WUN AGM 2019. The 2020 edition will be held in Monterrey, Mexico with the support of host member Tecnològico de Monterrey from 17-22 May 2020.

Click through for the full article and further images from the week.

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May 13, 2019

Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings 2019: WUN-universities walk the talk on SDGs

Led by the University of Auckland at number one, WUN universities make a strong showing in a new ranking that assesses the social and economic impact of universities based on the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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Apr 26, 2019

WUN kick-starts African partnership for climate resilience

The WUN Research Development Fund grant will help the ARUA-CD to support research on climate-resilient landscapes, specifically at three study sites in South Africa, Kenya and Ghana. 

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Apr 24, 2019

Sustainable Farming Practices as a Means to Maintain Food Supply & Mitigate Air Pollution

Using advanced computer models, CUHK researchers found that intercropping enables higher productivity in crops with less synthetic fertilizers and hence reduces the air pollutants being volatilized from the cropland soil. This sustainable farming practice may help maintain a stable food supply and mitigate the air pollution problem in China. 

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Mar 19, 2019

Maastricht University’s International Staff Week for WUN Partners

To be held from 19-21 June 2019 at Maastricht University.

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Mar 11, 2019

WUN Conference and AGM 2019

Held 19-24 May in Dublin, Ireland.

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Mar 03, 2019

CUHK Professor Announces World’s First Reference-grade Wild Soybean Genome

Prof Hon-ming Lam, CUHK professor and WUN IRG leader, completed the world’s first reference-grade wild soybean genome.

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Feb 22, 2019

WUN Summer School Accepting Applications

WUN Summer School on Energy Transitions, 8-19 July 2019, University of Alberta.

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Feb 12, 2019

Register for inVIVO 2019

The inVIVO Planetary Health network (formerly WUN inFLAME network) announced speakers and topics for inVIVO 2019, held 15-17 May 2019 in Detroit.

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Feb 12, 2019

Resilient Peace Final Workshop

“Exploring resilient peacebuilding actors, cultures and policy transfer in West Africa”.

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Feb 12, 2019

Marriage Migrants in Asia international workshop

Open: call for research proposals on Marriage Migrants and Care, deadline 15 March 2019. 

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Jan 31, 2019

CUHK Deepens Ties with World-leading Institutes for Transdisciplinary Medical Robotics Research

CUHK established partnerships with ETH Zurich, Imperial College London and Johns Hopkins University to deepen ties on transdisciplinary medical robotics research.

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Jan 28, 2019

WUN OPERA Europe 2018 Workshop

The Opera Europe 2018 workshop was held in Pforzheim, Germany, from 11-12 December 2018. OPERA is a WUN-supported initiative dedicated to improving pregnancy outcomes for women and babies at risk.

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Jan 27, 2019

WUN Global Africa Group workshop 2018

Implementing the SDGs in East Africa: Translating collaborative research into policy impact.

Jan 17, 2019

From Maastricht to Edmonton: WUN Cultivates International Research Connections

Michielse returned to Edmonton in the fall of 2018 to join Malykhin in his lab as part of a larger partnership the University of Alberta has with the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN).

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Dec 16, 2018

WUN RDF 2018 Results: Distinctive Constellations of Talent

Sixteen projects have been awarded funds to begin in 2019.

Nov 26, 2018

SDG Conference Bergen 2019 Edition – Registrations Now Open

National conference on the role of Norwegian universities in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Nov 26, 2018

inVIVO Abstracts and Travel Awards – NOW OPEN

Apply for a travel grant by 15 January 2019 and submit your abstract by 15 February 2019.

Nov 12, 2018

Religion and Gender-Based Violence: A Case Study of Accra in Global Context

WUN academic workshop report: The Shiloh Project In Ghana. An Intersectional Exploration of Religion and Gender-Based Violence.

Nov 06, 2018

Who doesn’t have a cell phone?

What does mobile phone usage in Africa and small-town hospitality to queer people in South Africa reveal about globalisation as it’s encountered in the margins and peripheries?

Oct 30, 2018

Sustaining landscapes and livelihoods in the South Pacific

A new platform to identify climate-smart adaptations in Fiji and Tonga will assist communities vulnerable to climate change.

Oct 22, 2018

Boosting maternal resilience after wildfire

WUN research: an inexpensive and easily replicable journalling exercise can build resilience in pregnant women affected by natural disaster.

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Oct 04, 2018

CUHK Hosts Stanford University’s Bing Overseas Studies Program in HK

CUHK will host Stanford University’s Bing Overseas Studies Program in Hong Kong from fall 2019. 

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Sep 19, 2018

CUHK, University of Sydney, and Zhejiang University Join Global AI Academic Alliance

Several WUN members join the Global AI Academic Alliance that seeks to boost academic exchanges on AI and promote international communication and cooperation. 

Aug 15, 2018

Launch of the WUN Research Development Fund 2018

The RDF provides researchers in WUN universities with grants of up to £10,000 to foster research collaborations across the network.

Jul 27, 2018

inVIVO Planetary Health announces publication of their 10 key principles for planetary health

The Canmore Declaration is defined as the interdependent vitality of all natural and anthropogenic ecosystems: social, political and otherwise.

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Jul 26, 2018

Volunteer voice: ‘I now appreciate what WUN offers researchers’

Tinashe Jakwa volunteered at the Worldwide Universities Network Conference, AGM, and Presidents Forum 2018

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Jul 18, 2018

53 ways Leeds is tackling global challenges

Leeds joins the University of Oxford and the LSHT in the top three.

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Jul 18, 2018

CUHK Hosted ACU Summer School 2018

Forty-five students of 19 nationalities gathered at CUHK for the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) Summer School on Designing and Creating Sustainable Communities during 1-9 July 2018.

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Jul 13, 2018

Cultures in flux: Migration and cultural dynamics in the past and present

WUN Understanding Cultures Global Challenge Workshop: how heritage can help people deal with trauma of forced and unsafe migration 

Jul 12, 2018

Water for sustainable food, renewable energy and biodiverse ecosystems under a changing climate

WUN Responding to Climate Change Global Challenge Workshop 

Jul 04, 2018

WUN Public Health Global Challenge Workshop 2018

Promoting adaptability across the life course

Jul 03, 2018

WUN Global Higher Education and Research Workshop 2018

What 21st Century challenges for higher education should inform GHEAR’s research agenda?

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Jun 26, 2018

WUN Presidents Forum urges closer collaboration for policy impact

We have got the talent, the knowledge, and the vehicles through the policy institutes

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Jun 18, 2018

Five key recommendations for improving data on missing migrants

Migration Data Portal Blog

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Jun 08, 2018

WUN Annual Conference and AGM paves a path to greater global policy teamwork

Conference and AGM round-up

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Jun 06, 2018

WUN announces its new Executive Director

Professor Peter Lennie will be the network’s new Executive Director, commencing in August.

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Jun 05, 2018

CUHK Launched Joint Research Centre with University of Exeter

CUHK and  one of the University of Exeter launched a new HK$20m joint research centre to embark on large, impactful interdisciplinary collaborations to tackle emerging issues related to a changing environment and human health and well being.

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Jun 04, 2018

Migration Data for Policy Summer School

Monday 9 – Thursday 12 July 2018, Bristol Marriott Hotel

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May 24, 2018

New book examines the experiences of first in family students on four continents

A unique book that captures the diverse experiences of first generation higher education students and explores ways universities might better serve them was launched on May 24 at the WUN AGM. 

May 23, 2018

Migration Data for Policy Summer School hosted by the University of Bristol and the IOM’s GMDAC

Details of the Migration Data for Policy Summer School hosted by the University of Bristol and the IOM’s GMDAC

May 23, 2018

New book broaches live issues for African development agendas

A new book by WUN’s Global Africa Group (GAG) is on track for publication by Springer in early 2019. It will also feature at GAG’s public forum during the WUN Annual Conference in Perth in May. 

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May 21, 2018

Students bring the world to us

Op-ed from UWA VC Professor Dawn Freshwater on international engagement. 

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May 04, 2018

New vice-chancellor at the University of Cape Town

Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng, currently the deputy vice-chancellor for research and internationalisation at the University of Cape Town (UCT), has been appointed by Council as the new vice-chancellor of the university with effect from 1 July 2018. 

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Apr 18, 2018

WUN Global Policy Research Group launched at Renmin University of China

The Worldwide Universities Network Global Policy Research Group (WUN GPRG) was launched (stage 1) at Renmin University of China (RUC) on 24 March 2018 during the RUC-WUN Think Tank Conference.

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Apr 12, 2018

inFlame continues its mission of personal, public and planetary health as inVIVO Planetary Health

International Inflammation Network announces name change

Mar 29, 2018

Eight WUN-Universities in THE Top 60 of most international institutions worldwide

WUN-Universities are high in the ranking with no less than eight members in the Top 60. This score illustrates the fact that WUN members are committed to an international outlook in their research and in increasing the mobility of their staff and students.   

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Mar 27, 2018

New £9m programme to transform food systems in Africa

GCRF-AFRICAP project has been launched in Pretoria.

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Mar 22, 2018

WUN-University of Bergen commits to 2030 carbon-neutral target

WUN member, The University of Bergen (UiB), will be climate-neutral by 2030 thanks to a commitment to sustainability announced at the first SDG Conference Bergen held in February 2018.

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Mar 19, 2018

Leeds among the world’s top 50 most international universities

University of Leeds one of the most international universities in the world.

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Mar 13, 2018

Strengthening health priority in Ethiopia with funding from Gates Foundation

A grant of 3 million US dollars from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is enabling the University of Bergen professor Ole Frithjof Norheim and his research group to teach health priorities to Ethiopian students.

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Mar 07, 2018

Sheffield welcomes applications for Visiting International Fellowship Scheme

The fellowship will be offered for visits between 4 and 6 weeks per year and applicants may request funding for up to £2,500.

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Mar 07, 2018

Call for applications for the UFMG Summer School on Brazilian Studies 2018 is open

The program comprises lectures on various Brazilian-related topics, Portuguese classes and cultural activities. The Summer School will take place at UFMG main campus in Belo Horizonte and all activities will be conducted in English.

Feb 16, 2018

Update: WUN International Search for Executive Director

Closing date 28 February 2018   

Jan 29, 2018

Using digital technology to preserve Holocaust memory and places

Digital technologies enable the creation of personal connection with Holocaust survivors.

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Jan 26, 2018

Renmin University of China (RUC) – the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) Think Tank Conference

On 24th March 2018, the RUC-WUN Think Tank Summit will be held on the campus of Renmin University. Springtime Beijing and Renmin University of China welcome experts and colleagues from WUN partner universities.

Jan 19, 2018

ECR Scholarship Opportunity for participation in WUN Public Health Workshop Perth WA May 2018

Scholarship Opportunity for early career researchers to participate in WUN academic workshop Promoting Adaptability across the Life Course held in Perth on 21-22 May 2018.

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Jan 08, 2018

SDSN Hong Kong Launched at CUHK

CUHK and the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust join hands to co-host the Hong Kong chapter of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.  

Dec 29, 2017

WUN Season’s Greetings

WUN New Year Newsletter available online

Dec 18, 2017

IOM launches Migration Data Portal

First stage of ongoing progress to develop a “one-stop-shop” for international data

Dec 15, 2017

WUN Research Development Fund 2017 Results

The Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) is pleased to announce the results of the 2017 round of the annual Research Development Fund, marking a direct investment in international, interdisciplinary research collaboration among WUN member universities of over £130,000.

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Dec 14, 2017

Professor Dame Jane Francis – New Chancellor of the University of Leeds

Director of the British Antarctic Survey, Professor Dame Jane Francis, has been announced as the new Chancellor of the University of Leeds.

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Dec 14, 2017

WUN welcomes new member University College Dublin

WUN welcomes UCD, one of Europe’s leading research-intensive universities, currently ranked within the top 1% of institutions world-wide and home to over 33.000 students drawn from over 120 countries.

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Dec 13, 2017

CUHK Develops First English-taught Chinese Medicine MOOC

A team from the Faculty of Medicine at CUHK has developed a Chinese medicine MOOC in English and Asia’s first Chinese medicine clinical evidence online portal which gathers studies from around the world.

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Dec 12, 2017

CUHK Launches the World’s First Child Heritage Chinese Language Corpus

CUHK announces the launch of the world’s first Child Heritage Chinese Language Corpus and the establishment of the University of Cambridge–CUHK Joint Laboratory for Bilingualism.

Dec 06, 2017

WUN researcher to address International Forum on Migration Data Statistics

WUN researcher to address International Forum on Migration Data Statistics in Paris

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Dec 01, 2017

SDG Conference Bergen Knowledge for Our Common Future

WUN member The University of Bergen is organising a major conference on the role of Norwegian universities in relation to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

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Nov 29, 2017

CUHK Establishes Joint Lab with ETH Zurich and DGIST

The CUHK-DGIST-ETH Zurich Joint Research Laboratory on Innovative Nanotechnology for Medicine and Healthcare was recently formed to promote the R&D of innovative technologies for the diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal and cardiovascular diseases.

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Nov 27, 2017

WUN members Maastricht and York join forces in major partnership

WUN members Maastricht and York have agreed a major partnership in which they will establish joint research projects, teaching collaborations, knowledge exchange, student exchanges and sharing best practice among their staff. 

Nov 02, 2017

International monitoring of SDG implementation and progress

The UNESCO Institute of Statistics 

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Oct 13, 2017

Impacts of climate change and ozone air pollution on crop production

Major findings WUN Responding to Climate Change research group published in science journal Atmospheric Environment.

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Oct 12, 2017

WUN Conference and AGM 2018

The next WUN Conference & AGM will be held in Perth, Australia from 20 to 25 May 2018. 

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Oct 10, 2017

Research in Focus: The art of resilience

Helping adolescents and the people who work with them adapt positively to adversity is the aim of this ambitious collaboration between researchers in South Africa, the UK & China.

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Oct 09, 2017

Research in Focus: Healthy ageing for all

How life-course research can help more of us stay healthy as we age

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Oct 08, 2017

Submit your abstracts for inFLAME 2018

Early Career Researcher travel grant opportunity to attend the International Inflammation Network (inFLAME) annual meeting in Canmore, Canada, 4-6 April 2018

Sep 01, 2017

Livestock Sustainability and Global Challenges Workshop

Bristol to host major international workshop on livestock and SDGs

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Aug 17, 2017

Bergen researcher awarded for Snapchat Research Stories

Professor Jill Walker Rettberg studies how humans use technology and what it means to us as a culture.

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Aug 10, 2017

WUN welcomes new member Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

WUN welcomes its 22nd member, UFMG, one of the leading institutions of higher education in Brazil. 

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Aug 08, 2017

The DREAMS Network workshop

WUN Project the DREAMS Network organised second workshop. 

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Jul 27, 2017

WUN welcomes new member Tecnológico de Monterrey

WUN expands its global network to Latin America. 

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Jul 25, 2017

CUHK Appoints New Vice-Chancellor and President

Prof. Rocky S. Tuan, an eminent biomedical scientist from the University of Pittsburgh, will become the eighth Vice-Chancellor of CUHK effective 1 January 2018, succeeding Prof. Joseph Sung.

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Jul 21, 2017

Research strengths secure global challenge funding

Two research projects led by the University of Leeds have been awarded £16million to build resilience in African businesses and communities. 

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Jul 15, 2017

Research Development Fund 2017 Round is open

The Research Development Fund 2017 Round is open.

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Jul 12, 2017

Developing a Role for the Arts

There’s increasing recognition within science, engineering and medicine that arts and humanities involvement in development projects is essential,

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Jul 07, 2017

CUHK to Host ACU Summer School 2018

CUHK has been selected to play host to the next Association of Commonwealth Universities Summer School on 1-9 July 2018.

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Jun 28, 2017

WUN Global Africa Group Inaugural Strategic Workshop

The World Universities Network Global Africa Group launched its inaugural Strategic Research Workshop, hosted by the University of Ghana, in July 2017.

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Jun 27, 2017

CUHK Legumes Symposium Facilitates Collaboration between Young and Senior Researchers

The WUN Symposium cum Research Summit on Impacts of Grain Legume Research and Development in Developing Countries held at CUHK on 8-17 June 2017 brought together over 100 participants from six continents to exchange knowledge and ideas on the development of legumes research.

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Jun 15, 2017

Space For Development

Eight countries across Sub-Saharan Africa are set to take part in the world’s largest ever radio astronomy initiative – and the University of Leeds is spearheading a project aimed at ensuring they can make the most of this opportunity.

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Jun 05, 2017

WUN Conference and AGM 2017

This year’s AGM provided a key opportunity for all stakeholders to form a fit-for-purpose strategic plan to carry WUN into the next decade.

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May 03, 2017

CUHK and the University of Sydney Join Hands to Advance Integrative Medicine Research

CUHK and the University of Sydney established a joint laboratory to share the best of information technology, data analysis, and clinical research for the advancement of evidence-based integrative medicine.  

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Apr 25, 2017

UCT calls on all to commit to finding solutions to the current situation in South Africa

A statement from the Senior Leadership Group of the University of Cape Town.

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Mar 31, 2017

CUHK-Southampton Joint Laboratory for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Formed

CUHK and the University of Southampton formed a joint laboratory to conduct high impact research in the areas of stem cells, developmental biology and regenerative medicine.

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Mar 30, 2017

Brexit: a chance for universities to leave their ivory towers behind

Professor Dr Martin Paul reflects on the consequences of Brexit for higher education.

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Mar 23, 2017

Spreading the cost to transform sanitation

Developing countries struggling to cope with huge volumes of human waste may finally get some relief – and a new business opportunity.

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Mar 15, 2017

CUHK Launches New AoE Centre on Plant-Environment Interaction

The Chinese University of Hong Kong has been awarded some HK$8m from the Hong Kong University Grants Committee to lead the AoE Centre for Genomic Studies on Plant-Environment Interaction for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security from 2017 to 2025. The new AoE Centre will develop new plant and agricultural technology with a view to striking a better balance between sustainable agriculture and food security.