News from IARU

Launch of Early-Career Collaboration Grants

Written on 19 March 2023.

We are delighted to announce that applications are now open for IARU's Early-Career Collaboration Grants.

This new scheme has been created to increase opportunities for in-person global collaboration for early-career academics in the wake of the pandemic. Researchers within 10 years of submitting their PhD (excluding Postdocs), can apply for up to 5,000 USD to help meet the costs of a short-term research stay at another IARU university.

We hope that the grants will provide valuable support to junior academics and will foster additional collaboration between the two universities in the future.

Full details and the application form can be found on the Early-Career Collaboration Grants page.

Presidents' Meeting 2023

Written on 23 January 2023.

The IARU Presidents met together on 14 & 15 January 2023 for their annual meeting, kindly hosted by the team at ETH Zürich. The group were delighted to welcome Professor Gong Qihuang (PKU), Professor Irene Tracey (Oxford) and Dr Anthony Freeling (Cambridge) to their first IARU meetings, with Dr Freeling also taking on the role of IARU Chair.

Discussing strategies for achieving net zero in universities, examining the rise in mental health challenges in student and staff communities, and exploring the complex issue of trust in higher education all provided excellent opportunities to compare approaches and share experience.

Future plans were made to encourage participation from IARU members in ETH’s CYBATHLON 2024 competition, an exciting project which brings together teams from all over the world to develop assistive technologies to help and support people with disabilities.

Global Internship Program

Written on 24 November 2022.

The Global Internship Program opportunities for 2023 have now been published. Take a look at the positions available at Australian National University, Berkeley and the University of Tokyo.