UK joins forces with international experts to tackle global challenges
Tue, 20 Aug 2019 11:24:30 BST
UK researchers and innovators will work with counterparts across the planet to tackle global challenges such as Ebola outbreaks, the impact of subpolar ocean currents on global climate, and the effect of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on society and individuals’ happiness and wellbeing following a major funding announcement.
Innovative UK companies will also be supported to develop into new markets following the announcement of the second wave of UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) Fund for International Collaboration today, Friday 9 August 2019.
The list is:
Summaries of the FIC Wave 2 programmes
- The Changing North Atlantic Ocean and its Impact on Climate
- UK-Canada: understanding and adapting to a changing environment
- Next generation transdisciplinary international research collaborations in Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID)
- UK-Canada Diabetes Partnership Initiative
- UK-China Healthy Ageing Flagship Challenge
- UK-Australia Built Environment and Prevention Research Scheme
- UKRI-JST Joint Call on Artificial Intelligence and Society
- UK-Canada Collaboration on Artificial Intelligence: Building competitive, resilient economies and societies
- UK-Canada Globalink Doctoral Exchange Scheme
- Global Incubator Programme
- Digital transformation in humanities research: UK-Irish collaboration in the digital humanities
- UK-USA Business Innovation Bridge
- EPIC: UK-India Extreme Photonics Innovation Centre
Additional funding announced for Wave 1 programme
- UK-Japan SSH Connections additional Fund Request
Summaries of the FIC Wave 1 projects funded through the UKRI-JSPS call
- Memory Dynamics: The Cellular Architecture of Systems Memory
- Genome stability established through epigenome plasticity during ageing and rejuvenation
- Structure-based vaccine design: using structural information from HIV-2 to design better HIV-1 immunogens
- Authentication of primate pluripotent stem cells for chimaera formation
- Shared challenges to form a spindle without centrosomes in plants and animals
- Functional interplay of ciliary trafficking complexes and motor proteins
- Geodynamics and Tectonics Plate Analysis based on Distributed Optical Fibre Acoustic Sensor
- Quantifying Human Influence on Ocean Melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
- Genetics and evolutionary dynamics of male-killer suppression in the lacewing, Mallada desjardinsi
- Continuous chemical speciation of Asian VOC emissions for understanding the growth of surface ozone in East Asia
