Top UK universities team up with Chinese counterparts

Some of the UK’s leading universities are joining forces with nine of China’s top academic institutions in a new government-backed programme.

The partnership has been set up to build major collaborations around research and education, with an expressed aim of building higher education links and helping to improve the quality of engineering research and teaching in China. On the UK side, the consortium is led by Queen’s University Belfast, and also features the universities of Warwick, Birmingham, Cardiff and Nottingham, as well as University College London.

“The world is facing global engineering challenges, not just in my own area of power generation, control and storage, but across a range of technologies,” said Jihong Wang, professor of Electrical Power & Control Engineering Warwick.

“We need partnerships such as these that pull together the best minds in the UK and Chinese engineering research to take on those challenges and to make a real, positive, difference to our daily lives.”