Events in Physics
The scheme aims to help UK universities build capacity and promote collaborations by facilitating visits by distinguished international experts. It provides funding to enable an academic engineering department in a UK university to be a host for up to one month to a Distinguished Visiting Fellow from an overseas academic centre of excellence.
Scheme objectives:
- access global centres of excellence in engineering research and teaching, with a view to strengthening UK capacity and international standing and promoting new international collaborations;
- enable participating organisations to discover shared and complementary skills, areas and initiatives that could form the foundation for future collaborations and strategic research alliances;
- foster knowledge exchange partnerships through the sharing of skills, experience, information and the latest technological developments;
- promote the unification of participating organisations’ diverse knowledge in the area of engineering and technology by enabling the host institution to engage the Visiting Fellow in a range of mutually beneficial activities.
These activities may include:
- Working collaboratively on joint papers and research proposals to tackle ambitious research problems or challenges;
- Delivering lectures, presentations, seminars, demonstrations, and expert workshops to graduates, undergraduates, members of the host faculty and academics from other UK institutions;
- Establishing project consortia to work collaboratively on ambitious joint research projects.