29 Joint Research Projects for Berlin and Oxford
Berlin partners and the University of Oxford consolidate their cooperation - Joint press release of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, and Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin. No 365/2018 from Dec 18, 2018 The research partnership between the University of Oxford and the four Berlin partners - Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, and Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin - is picking up speed: all five institutions have now approved 29 research projects, in which scholars and scientists from Berlin and Oxford jointly pursue research issues. The Berlin partners and the University of Oxford are funding the projects with 450,000 euros. In doing so, they want to consolidate their research partnership and invigorate new forms of cooperation. The projects will start on January 1, 2019. The cooperation partners are funding projects in the humanities, social sciences, medicine, and the STEM subjects of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Including, for example, the poverty of Europe's working population, a Berlin-Oxford graduate network in classical studies, biorhythms of the visually impaired as well as a physical comparison of natural and artificial intelligence in parrots and robots, the spectrum of topics covered by the new research projects is broad.
