Collaborative research

Europe's Eureka research programme will invest €33 million to fund 25 new collaborative R&D projects. The agreement was announced at a meeting in Eilat, under Israel's chairmanship of Eureka.

The New Year will see the launch of ten new collaborative research projects to be funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG.

A €15.3 million fund has been launched to strengthen research cooperation between Norway and Poland in the fields of environment and health.

A new research centre at Imperial Collegewill study urban energy efficiency and nuclear power generation.

CellCentric, a biotechnology company specialising in epigenetics, is to sponsor a collaboration in cancer research at the Wolfson Institute of Biomedical Research, University College London.

The University of Manchester has signed an agreement with IBM to collaborate on research, teaching and recruitment.