Sebastian Bausch and Bernard Jansen of ESADE win the Google-organised event with "Yuki wearables for kids"

Fifty-five of the world's most academically brilliant and socially committed young people from 27 countries have been selected as Gates Cambridge Scholars and will begin their postgraduate courses at the University of Cambridge this October.

The Mayor of London Boris Johnson launched MedCity, a major new medical research and translation initiative, at Imperial College London today [Tuesday 8 April].

The two universities signed an agreement to create a joint research laboratory devoted to automation and robotics. The two universities also announced a new joint master’s degree in civil engineering.

The University of Warwick is to lead a new “EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Materials and Manufacturing”.

UCLB has entered into an exclusive licence agreement with BioKier, Inc. for the proprietary colon delivery technology PhloralTM developed by researchers at the UCL School of Pharmacy.

UCL is partnering with Novo Nordisk and the Steno Diabetes Center – a world leading institution in diabetes care and prevention – to launch the Cities Changing Diabetes initiative, an ambitious new partnership programme to fight urban diabetes.

Since the end of last year, Switzerland has boasted the most powerful supercomputer in Europe: “Piz Daint”. As of today, it is officially cleared for research. For the approval, “early science” has already been conducted successfully on “Piz Daint” over the last few weeks.

Chalmers Students for Sustainability (CSS) is proud to announce the start of their annual ”The Reflecting Engineer” lunch lectures. It started on March 25 with professor Jan Jörnmark, who talked about the global evolution of dense cities.

King’s College London has been awarded the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council’s (BBSRC) ‘Activating Impact’ prize in recognition of the College’s contribution to delivering real-world impact from bioscience research.