CiC Vol.5

Newsletter

The CiC Newsletter is for sharing hot topics and latest activities
of CiC partner institutions.
CiC is Campus-in-Campus, a scheme of sharing campuses among
partner institutions with the purpose of using their respective
education and research resources without any national orinstitutional barriers. Through CiC, partner institutions are highly
expected to enhance student, faculty and administrative staff
mobility as well as joint research collaborations.

Universite
Grenoble Alpes

FranceSeveral laboratories and industrialists inGrenoble will collaborate within a project fundedby the French National Research Agency tostudy the potential of silicon carbide (SiC)
nanowires to produce bio-sensors to improve
the quality and speed of medical diagnoses. With
this project, they will explore the possibilities
to develop very flexible implants used to treat
disorders such as Parkinson’ s disease.
Partners involved are IMEP-LACH, LMGP, LTM,Inserm, SIMaP, ESIEE, Plasmatherm Europe andSoitec.

University ofCalifornia Irvine

United States

UC Irvine alumni Paul and Jo Butterworth pledge$35.5 million to Donald Bren SchoolUCI alumnus Paul Butterworth, co-founderand chief technology officer of enterprisesoftware developer Vantiq Inc., and his wife, Jo
Butterworth, also a UCI graduate, have named
UCI as a beneficiary of their estate. The gift,valued at approximately $35.5 million, will support
the Donald Bren School of Information andComputer Sciences. The largest gift to UCI fromalumni, the donation will be allocated in a varietyof ways, including awards, scholarships andfellowships for students
and to finance newresearch initiatives andfaculty chairs.

Ohio StateUniversityUnited States

Ohio State makes connections in India
Anil Makhija, dean of the Fisher College ofBusiness at Ohio State, visited India to expand
and enhance partner relationships. His meetings
with hospital representatives sparked interest in
clinical operational excellence training programsfor resident doctors. Makhija also reconnectedwith alumni in Delhi and Mumbai. Since 2015
and under Makhija’ s leadership, Fisher has
broadened the reach of the college’ s researchand expertise collaborating with IIT Bombay, Tata
Management, Mahindra Institute of Quality andothers.

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Ruhr UniversityBochum Germany
New Investment Fund for university start-ups
VIA Ventures start-up-consulting supports businessideas from the university environment. "We are thefirst student-run investment fund in Germany and offer
advice and financing," says RUB graduate and Managing
Director Radu-Andrei Maldea. "Few invest in university
start-ups that are still in their infancy. We see them,
are close to them and talk to them at eye level." VIA
Ventures has been advising start-ups since 2020 andcooperates with RUB's dem Worldfactory Start-up
Center (WSC) since 2022.
Managing Team of VIA Ventures:Felix Hasenberg, Head of Consulting(left), Radu-Andrei Maldea,Managing Director (center), Jim
Chan, Head of Investments (right).
© VIA Ventures

Al-Farabi Kazakh

National UniversityKazakhstan

Exhibition of Scientific Projects at KazNU
At the Scientific and practical conference on"Development of research in universities as anecessary condition for the innovative developmentof Kazakhstan", KazNU scientists, along withresearch institutions and universities, presented theirachievements at the Exhibition of scientific projects.
Innovative projects on nanomaterials, small spacecraft
creation, and automatic speech recognition systemin Kazakh language were showcased by the Science
Fund, universities, and research institutions. Theseprojects have the potential to contribute significantly toKazakhstan's innovation and development.

#kaznu #innovations#kazakhstan #Institute ofInformation and Computational
Technologies

University ofTsukuba

Japan

University of Tsukuba to Establish Branch Campus inMalaysia
On March 14, 2023, Y.B. Dato'Seri Haji Mohamed
Khaled bin Nordin, Minister of Higher Education of theGovernment of Malaysia
and H.E. Ambassador
TAKAHASHI Katsuhikorepresenting the Ministryof Foreign Affairs and theMinistry of Education,Culture, Sports, Scienceand Technology (MEXT),
signed a Memorandumof Cooperation (MOC) regarding the establishmentof a branch campus of the University of Tsukuba inMalaysia.
Prof. Dr. TSUJIMURA Maki, Director of BranchCampus Preparation Office, attended the signingceremony as a witness.
If all goes well after the various procedures related
to the establishment approval by both Japanese andMalaysian governments, the earliest possible timing ofthe opening of the branch campus will be September
2024.

National Taiwan
UniversityTaiwan

Further Developing our Strategic Partnership with
the University of TsukubaThe University of Tsukuba delegation visited
National Taiwan University on Feb 17th, where
the NTU Center for Artificial Intelligence andAdvanced Robotics (AIROBO), the UT Center for
Artificial Intelligence Research, and the Industrial
Technology Research Institute (ITRI) had theirfirst-ever in-person meeting. The ceremony wasattended by Pres. Nagata (UT) and Pres. Chen
(NTU). Plans for future trilateral collaboration wereshared by Prof. Li-Chen Fu, AIROBO's Director.
Prof. Ichikawa Masao and Prof. Tang-Long Shengave a brief overview
of the program, paving
the way for furthercollaborations between
these prestigiousinstitutions.

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University ofSao Paulo Brazil
USP and partner universities renew alliance topromote the Ibero-American Space of Knowledge
The Ibero-American Union of Universities (UIU),
founded in 2016, begins a new stage with thesigning of a cooperation term in a public act thattook place on Friday, February 17. The UIU's
mission is to promote actions that contribute to
the strengthening of the Ibero-American Spaceof Knowledge, as well as to promote actions forthe transfer and dissemination of knowledge,
articulation and cooperation with external
institutions, andsupport the formationof networks, especiallyoriented towards theimplementation of theUN 2030 Agenda.

Universiti Teknologi
Malaysia

Malaysia

MJIIT JAPAN DAY 2022 COMMEMORATES ADECADE ANNIVERSARY OF MJIIT
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The UTM-MJIIT hosted the MJIIT Japan Day
2022 event on Dec 27, 2022, at Residensi UTMKL.
The event's tagline, "Connecting Industry throughInnovation," aimed to bridge the gap between
industry, academia, and the public by bringing key
players to showcase services and products. Theevent, attended by over 400 visitors, featured various
activities such as forums, forum, a series of industrial
talks, the iKohza Open Exhibition, the MJIIT Industry
Exhibition, the Japanese Language and Cultural
Exhibition, the One-Man
Rescue Demonstration andRappelling by Keramat Fireand Rescue Station..

University ofBordeauxFranceAgreement aimed at setting up a new international
research platform in global health (PRISME)A delegation from the University of Bordeaux, led
by its President Dean Lewis, was in Abidjan in Côte
d’ Ivoire on 23rd - 24th January, in order to sign anagreement aimed at setting up a new international
research platform in global health (PRISME) as
well as a consortium agreement for IPORA Interdisciplinary Policy Oriented Research in Africa,
one of the university’ s major research programmes.
This international and inter-institutional initiative
will contribute to the definition of preparation andresponse strategies adapted to emerging and reemerging epidemics.

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