Universities of Münster and Twente strengthen cooperation with ’Collaboration Grants’

The Universities of Münster and Twente fund joint research concepts. WWU - Jan Lehmann / UT - Eric Brinkhorst For the fourth time now, the managements of the Universities of Münster and Twente have awarded so-called Collaboration Grants. The universities have been using this internal start-up funding instrument since 2018 as a way of intensifying existing research collaborations between the two universities and initiating new ones which have great potential for the acquisition of third-party funding. The rectors of both universities also signed a memorandum of understanding, in which they affirmed their intention to further strengthen their cross-border cooperation. "We have succeeded in increasing the degree of partnership between our two universities," said Prof. Johannes Wessels, Rector of the University of Münster. "This is shown by the innovative projects undertaken by our researchers together, and I am delighted that we are able to further strengthen this cooperation this year too with the awarding of the Collaboration Grants." 15 applications were submitted for the Collaboration Grants. The six most promising teams presented their projects and answered the questions put to them by the jury, which consisted of three researchers from each of the two universities.