CiC Vol.2

Newsletter

National Taiwan
University Taiwan
National Taiwan University International Collaboration
Seed Funding The NTU International Collaboration

Seed Funding is establishedto encourage and support
its scholars’ researchcollaboration withinternational partners.

The CiC Newsletter is for sharing hot topics and latest activities

NTU especially focusesof CiC partner institutions.

on research projects thatCiC is Campus-in-Campus, a scheme of sharing campuses among

involve interdisciplinary fields and global sustainability

education and research resources without any national orprovided for the selected projects. The University looks

partner institutions with the purpose of using their respective

issues. A funding for up to TWD 750,000 will beinstitutional barriers. Through CiC, partner institutions are highly

forward to exploring new possibilities for matching

expected to enhance student, faculty and administrative staff
mobility as well as joint research collaborations.

University of
Sao Paulo Brazil
USP announces the inauguration of a public spacefor intercultural exchange: the USP International
Intercultural Center.

It will be open to undergraduate and graduate

students, researchers and professors participatingin courses, lectures, and in a variety of international
academic activities. The purpose is to enhancecommunication among exchange students, togive greater visibility to the results of various

internationalization programs and to enable new
actions regarding academic exchange.

fund opportunities and partners to expand international
networks and linkages.

Universiti Teknologi
Malaysia

Malaysia

Research @ MJIIT is classified into several

distinct groups of iKohzas (formal structures forcollaborative research), led by a senior academics
with group members comprising academics,

researchers of similar interests, and students.

Research is facilitated through Japanese-oriented
innovative iKohza system, comprising membersof academia and postgraduate research students.
20 iKohza have been established and active (e.g.,wind engineering, environmental systems, artificial
intelligence, and many more).

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Utrecht
University

University ofCalifornia Irvine

United States

Netherlands

Philip Felgner, Ph.D., professor in residence

Utrecht University focuses its research on four strategic

California, Irvine, is one of two scholars to win theSocieties, Life Sciences and Pathways to Sustainability.

contributions to thedevelopment in the past ten years. They haveacids into cells. Thiscollaboration. That is why the decision was made thatfor treating infectious

the university organisation. They can also count onof physiology & biophysics at the University ofthemes: Dynamics of Youth, Institutions for Open

prestigious 2022 Robert Koch Prize for fundamental

The four themes have gone through a strongtransfer of nucleic

formed an indispensable driver of multidisciplinary

pioneering technology

the strategic themes have and retain a set position indiseases played a crucial role in developing thestructural funding of

the prize with Dr. Drew Weissman, a professor in theyear.

1.5 million euros per

messenger RNA COVID-19 vaccines. He will share
University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School ofMedicine.

UniversiteGrenoble Alpes

Ohio StateUniversityFrance

In May 2022, National Taiwan University andUniversité Grenoble Alpes have come together
to host an online bilateral forum in the context

of their strategic partnership. This first workshop
is dedicated to two topics Microelectronics andSustainable cities

and communities
with a focus on
topics related
to disasterrisk reduction

and sustainable cities and human settlements.
Researchers from both universities presented

their work and had an overview of potential newcollaboration.

United States

Ohio State's Office of International Affairs and theDrake Institute for Teaching and Learning createda learning community to promote CollaborativeOnline International
Learning/VirtualExchange. The

aim is to support
instructors indesigning new global

and intercultural student learning experiences invirtual modalities. These new programs, which may
be course- or project-based, will connect Ohio State

students with their peers around the world throughcollaborative learning and intercultural interactions.

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CiC Newsletter Vol.2Al-Farabi KazakhRuhr University
Bochum Germany

National UniversityKazakhstan

Worldfactory Start-up Center: One-stop shopKazNU on 150th position in QS WUR

researchers in translating research ideas into

impressive results in the international QS Worldfor start-ups; guides and supports students/

business models. Worldfactory international
bundles RUB’s entire international start-up

activities, with services for business-oriented juniorresearchers. Key services: Customized support
for IT, science, product service systems, etc.

Entrepreneurship Explorer Ruhr backs international
researchers and their business ideas. For further
information,e-mail:worldfactoryinternat

Al-Farabi Kazakh National University achieved

Universities Rankings and took the 150th position
among universities from around the world. Theuniversity moved up 25 positions
within the Top 200, rising from

175 position to 150 place and is ona par with the top universities inthe world. Al-Farabi KazNU proved
its leading position among not

only universities in Kazakhstan, but also throughout

ional@ruhr-uni-bochum.deCentral Asia and the CIS countries.

University ofTsukuba

University ofBordeauxJapan

In order to support international students waiting

to enter Japan, we have created a portal site, theStudy in Japan Special Box, on the Japan Virtual
Campus platform.

Many Japanese universities and institutions havecreated content regarding Japanese culture, daily
life, and Japanese language, as well as lectures ona variety of fields. We

hope that those students
waiting or thinking

about studying in Japan
will use the Box to stayconnected, and to see what studying in Japan has
to offer. Please feel free to share the following link!
<https://www.jv-campus.org/en/intl-box/>

FranceSolving the major challenge of preventing sudden

cardiac death is at the heart of the HELP project, ledby Michel Haïssaguerre, professor at the Universityof Bordeaux, Chairman and Co-founder of theElectrophysiology
and Heart Modeling

Institute and Headof the departmentof cardiology,

electrophysiology
and cardiac pacingof Bordeaux University Hospital. Supported by theUniversity of Bordeaux, this significant project will
benefit from an ERC Advanced Grant 2021 of €2.5
million over a period of 5 years.

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