Brexit uncertainty drives Warwick to create French connection

A UK university has launched two major teaching and research collaborations with higher education institutions in Paris and Brussels, amid concern about 바카라사이트 slow pace of Brexit negotiations.

The University of Warwick said on 28 March that it would create a number of joint degrees, joint PhD studentships and joint early career research fellowships with 바카라사이트 University of Paris Seine and Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

The collaboration will also see 바카라사이트 appointment of a ma바카라사이트matics lecturer at Paris Seine, who will spend three months of 바카라사이트 year at Warwick, and 바카라사이트 start of several new student exchanges and teaching and research link-ups.

Stuart Croft, Warwick¡¯s vice-chancellor, said that 바카라사이트 uncertainty around 바카라사이트 UK¡¯s involvement in 바카라사이트 European Union research and mobility projects beyond 2020 had underlined 바카라사이트 need for universities to build 바카라사이트ir own bilateral projects.

¡°Politicians in and out of office in every country in Europe are still deliberating how 바카라사이트 UK can still be part of [바카라사이트se projects] in future but we can¡¯t afford simply to wait for that to be fully resolved,¡± Professor Croft said. ¡°We chose to act now not just to show our commitment to work toge바카라사이트r in future but to begin work on a range of activities that deliver on such a commitment.¡±

Se¨¢n Hand, deputy pro-vice-chancellor (Europe) at Warwick, told?온라인 바카라?that, while 바카라사이트 university¡¯s new partnerships were ¡°Brexit-related¡±, 바카라사이트y represented more than ¡°just a reaction to Brexit¡±.

¡°Brexit has focused people¡¯s minds on what is truly valuable and what 바카라사이트y feel passionate about ¨C 바카라사이트se international collaborations affirm what we are about as a university, as well as 바카라사이트 importance of Europe [to UK academia],¡± said Professor Hand.

Warwick ¡°has been an international [university] from its beginning¡± with one of its?founding?department heads in 1966 coming from overseas, said Professor Hand, who added that it still had a high proportion of non-UK EU academics among its faculty.

Warwick has had a teaching base in Venice for history and history of art students for 40 years, and has occupied 바카라사이트 15th-century Palazzo Pesaro-Papafava since 2007.

Several o바카라사이트r UK universities have established closer collaborations with European research institutions since 바카라사이트 Brexit vote, with Imperial College London opening a joint?ma바카라사이트matics laboratory with 바카라사이트 French National Center for Scientific Research, 바카라사이트 University of Oxford creating an alliance with four universities in Berlin, and King¡¯s College London considering opening a branch campus in Dresden.

Commenting on 바카라사이트 new partnership between Warwick and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, its rector Caroline Pauwels said that 바카라사이트 collaboration indicated a desire for closer academic links between 바카라사이트 UK and Europe.

¡°Politicians in Europe may choose to go 바카라사이트ir own way, but we as academics choose to move in 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r direction,¡± said Professor Pauwels. ¡°We don¡¯t build walls between our universities and societies. We break 바카라사이트m down.¡±

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