The first alliance of its kind between the two countries launched on 8 April 2021
Date: 8 April 2021 The UK-Singapore Universities Alliance for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (UKSAEI) – the first alliance of its kind to accelerate collaborations in entrepreneurship and innovation between the two countries – was launched on 8 April 2021, witnessed by H.E. Kara Owen, British High Commissioner to Singapore, and H.E. Lim Thuan Kuan, Singapore High Commissioner to the UK. UKSAEI brings together world leading universities from the UK (Bath, Coventry, Cranfield, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, King’s College London, Newcastle, Nottingham, Manchester and Strathclyde) and Singapore (Nanyang Technological University Singapore, National University of Singapore, Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore Management University, and Singapore University of Technology and Design) to share knowledge and facilitate collaboration in commercialisation and innovation. Enabling knowledge excha
Universities search for the new normal after Brexit
German and United Kingdom representatives of universities and higher education organisations have discussed the post-Brexit future of UK-German academic relations, including how to plug the glaring gap in the UK’s Turing Scheme, the replacement for participation in the European Union’s mobility and exchange scheme Erasmus+.
The discussions took place in a virtual talk organised by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and prepared by the DAAD Competence Centre for International Academic Collaborations (KIWi), and coincided with the presentation of DAAD propositions on future cooperation with the UK. Erasmus+ scholarships for UK-German student exchange will still be available for the next two years.
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Unspent Erasmus funds to help UK mobility scheme to fly
Universities in the United Kingdom and mainland Europe are not waiting for invitations to bid for grants from the UK government’s new Turing Scheme before securing their own bilateral agreements to allow students and staff on exchanges to continue, following the British government’s decision to pull the UK out of the EU-funded Erasmus+ programme.
One Spanish university has already clinched institutional agreements with 40 UK universities so that two-way exchanges can be offered in the 2021-22 academic year, with a pledge to use its own funds to guarantee outbound mobility to the UK if unspent Erasmus+ grants are insufficient to cover the cost.