Category Archives: 2016

IARU developed two working tools aimed at facilitating research collaboration among institutions: the Marie Curie template agreement and the IARU Lexicon of research terms.

IARU is now presenting a model collaboration agreement that can be used for research collaboration between the IARU partners. The model is developed by the IARU Research Administrators’ Network and is designed for Marie Curie fellowships, but can used for any other collaborations and is accepted among all IARU universities. Find the model contract here.

What does it mean?

Different terminology in research collaboration often is a major barrier and causes misunderstanding and confusion. The Research Administrators’ Network have compiled a dictionary of often used terms in research collaboration that can be a tool to improve understanding and make research collaboration more effective and error-free. Find the dictionary here. 

An opportunity for selected IARU students to travel and spend a working period with sustainability professionals at a IARU partner university.

Every year selected IARU students spend a six week internship period working closely with professionals at the host IARU university to support the development and implementation of campus sustainability projects. Satowa Kinoshita, from the University of Cambridge, worked with the Office of Environmental Sustainability at the National University of Singapore identifying and recommending measures to reduce the energy consumption of the University’s Central Library.

I gained project management skills and communication by working with a range of people. I also gained first-hand experience of the issues that facilities management face and the operations of a building.

Satowa Kinoshita, Cambridge

IARU Sustainability Fellowships are announced at home university’s internship or career office or sustainability website. Applications at Oxford, National University of Singapore and ANU are now open. Read more about the Sustainability Fellowships.

The IARU GSP program expands to 2 new exciting courses at the University of Cape Town: UCT1 Sustainable Water Management in Africa and UCT2 Organized Crime and Violence in Africa.

UCT1: Sustainable Water Management in Africa This course adopts an interdisciplinary approach to examine the current water crises, trends and conditions in developing countries. Further, it addresses the need to derive maximum benefit from each water resource used while incurring minimum burden and the need to secure “new taps” in a water sensitive urban design context.

UCT2: Organized Crime and Violence in Africa This course will take an interdisciplinary approach to interrogating the nature of organized crime in Africa, as well as the means and conditions through which it contributes to violence. Further to this the course will explore possible strategies and mechanisms to reduce such violence.

Applications to the IARU GSP are open until 7 March, with earlier deadlines for UTokyo and NUS students.

Read more about IARU Global Summer Program.

The University of Tokyo offers three global internship programs to students willing to acquire research skills in natural and social sciences and looking to experience academic research processes in order to assess their career goals.

The programs open for applications are:

1. Internship with the International Core Research Center for NanoBio (C2CNB)

2. University of Tokyo Research Internship Program (UTRIP)

3. Summer Internship Program in Kashiwa (UTSIP Kashiwa)

For further information on each program and how to apply please visit the Global Internship Program.