UCL launches new academic partnership programme in global cities
Prospective students Current students - UCL is today launching a new Cities partnerships Programme (CpP) to invest in and extend research and teaching collaborations in multiple city locations around the world - with Rome and Paris named as the first two cities. The programme's distinctive focus on a city rather than a specific partner means that UCL academics from across the university are able to work with the partners they feel are the best in their particular field - collaboratively shaping the activity, developing a broad programme of multidisciplinary research and education that is relevant and innovative. The CpP is led by academic directors who have significant links to the cities. Activity in Rome is led by Dr Florian Mussgnug (UCL School of European Languages, Culture and Society) and in Paris by Dr Claire Colomb (UCL Bartlett School of Planning). UCL is the most successful higher education institute in collaborative research in Europe. Its academic staff are involved in 167 collaborative research projects with funding totalling over ¤94 million, and collaborated on journal articles with colleagues from over one thousand European organisations, including more than 475 universities in 2016. The CpP has been developed in response to concerns within the higher education sector about the future of European collaborations post-Brexit.
