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U21 is delighted to announce that Cody Frear from the University of Queensland has won first prize with his presentation ‘Negative Pressure Wound Therapy in Paediatric Burns; No No or Noo Noo’.
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Competition founders The University of Queensland win first prize in the U21 3MT® 2019.
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U21 was formally represented at the UN Climate Change Summit in September 2019.
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Universitas 21 welcomes KU Leuven, Belgium, to its leading global network of research-intensive universities.
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The 2019 U21 Health Sciences Summer School is focussing on the complex topic of Antimicrobial Resistance and Stewardship.
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Universitas 21 and PwC are pleased to open the 2019-2020 Innovation Challenge.
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This year’s Research Collaboration Group meeting was hosted by Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. The meeting, attended by research support and research development staff from across the U21 network, also included a 2-day training workshop on accessing European Research and Innovation funding.
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RISE (Real Impact on Society and Environment) is U21’s newest student opportunity, an international showcase of student achievement in sustainability and social innovation designed to accelerate the scale and impact of student-led projects by connecting them with a network of experts in academia and industry.
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U21 has been chosen as a finalist for the 'Association of the Year' Award category in the PIEoneer Awards 2019.
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U21 enjoyed an interesting and productive AGM with the warm and generous hospitality of The University of Maryland (May 1-3 2019). Presidents and Senior Leaders from U21 members met to discuss issues around ‘Globalisation, Isolationism and the Response in Higher Education’.
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We are delighted that Joanna Regulska, Vice Provost and Associate Chancellor of Global Affairs at the University of California, Davis, has been honoured as the first-ever recipient of the Senior International Officer (SIO) Award from the Institute of International Education (IIE).
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Universitas 21 (U21) and PwC are pleased to announce that Sarah Hashmi from the University of Birmingham is the overall winner of the third and final round (C) of the 2018-19 U21/PwC Innovation Challenge competition.
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U21 has published its eighth annual ranking of national systems of higher education, a unique report produced under the leadership of Professor Ross Williams at the University of Melbourne.
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4 U21 Universities make the top ten of the first global Impact Rankings
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U21 Anniversary Funding supported the 3rd Asian Junior Linguists Conference which was held at the University of Hong Kong in October 2018.
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A special event at UNSW to celebrate ten years of the strategic partnership between UNSW Sydney and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) was one of the projects which has been funded by U21's 21st Anniversary Funding.
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The GCRA awards encourage doctoral candidates to think innovatively about how their research could benefit from engagement with other members of the U21 network. Awards of up to US$5,000 are available for projects, with a total of US$30,000 available each year.
Six projects were awarded funding in 2017 and one of those was a project on Art and Conflict carried out at the University of Melbourne.
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Congratulations to President Professor Peter Høj, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Queensland who has been awarded the Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) for eminent service to higher education and research.
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Universitas 21 (U21) and PwC, are pleased to announce that Mac Montana from The University of Connecticut is the overall winner for the second group round of the Innovation Challenge competition (view the video below).
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The U21 Awards for 2019 have been given to Professor John Spinks from the University of Hong Kong and Professor Kazuo Kuroda, from Waseda University, Japan.
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The University of Birmingham and Waseda University have come together, with the actor Japanese Kyogen actor Mansai Nomura to explore how to bring Shakespeare to life for today’s theatre audiences.
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As part of next year's U21AGM at the University of Maryland, we are asking members to consider submitting case studies for inclusion in the U21 Presidential Symposium (Thursday, May 2, 2019). The theme of this year's Symposium is Globalization, Isolationism and the Civic Response in Higher Education.
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Research Leaders from 10 Universitas 21 (U21) universities took up an invitation to meet Director Generals and other stakeholders at the European Parliament on November 26-27th where they gave their advice on the role of international collaboration in Horizon Europe, an ambitious €100 billion research and innovation programme that will succeed Horizon 2020. Their various high-level meetings were most successful in allowing the group to share their worldwide perspectives at this very key time in international research funding decision-making.
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This new initiative, developed by the College of Arts & Humanities at University College Dublin (UCD) and the Faculty of Arts at the University of Nottingham (UoN) is the first College-to-College/ Faculty-to-Faculty MoU signed between the two universities under the auspices of U21, working together to explore a range of activities from research collaborations to joint PhDs and student mobility.
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Humberto Jimenez Martinez, MBA student from the University of Queensland, winner of the U21/PwC Innovation Challenge has just returned from a week long, expenses paid trip to Dubai courtesy of PwC Middle East. Read his account of his life changing trip
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Universitas 21 is delighted to announce that Jonathan Berengut from UNSW Sydney is the 2018 Winner of the U21 3MT®(Three Minute Thesis) competition.
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The U21 Student Mobility Group recently met at the University of Nottingham Malaysia campus for a well-attended and productive two-day meeting. The group came together to tackle shared challenges in global student mobility and enhance the internationalised student experience across the network.
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U21’s annual Early Career Researcher (ECR) Workshops showcases the cutting-edge research conducted by the network’s community of ECRs.
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U21 is delighted to be working with Korea University to offer the U21 Winter School as part of the KU International Winter Campus 2019. A unique package for U21 students is on offer, including a scholarship scheme and an additional collaborative project.
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Students from the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong travelled to Tokyo, Japan in May with Dr. Masato Kajimoto for a news literacy workshop at Waseda University, where they explored the truth about Fake News.