14 September 2007
The University of Sydney has strengthened its commitment to forging research partnerships with leading universities around the world with the announcement of additional funding to encourage research collaborations through the University's international networks.
The funding is part of the university's annual International Project Development Fund (IPDF), which has been providing seed grants for international research collaborations for more than ten years.
Sydney is a member of three of the world's most prestigious global university networks: the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU), the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) and Academic Consortium 21 (AC21). Membership of these networks places Sydney amongst some of the world's leading research universities including Stanford, UC Berkeley, Peking University, Tsinghua University, the University of Tokyo and the National University of Singapore.
The University has also established bilateral links with top universities outside the networks including Cambridge and Harvard.
Seed funding gives researchers the opportunity to tap into lucrative international funding opportunities that are not available at a domestic level.
"This new funding will further support the University's commitment to international research partnerships and encourage our researchers to share in innovative research with some of the world's top universities," said Professor John Hearn, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International).
"In a globalised world facing global challenges there is growing appreciation of these sorts of multilateral collaborations to find answers far more efficiently and holistically than by working in isolation," he said.
The IPDF Fund is open to all University of Sydney researchers who are interested in establishing collaborative projects with international network partner institutions. Applications close on Friday 26 October and details are available at
http://www.usyd.edu.au/international/about/ipdf.shtml.
Contact: Claudia Liu
Phone: 02 9351 3191