第一吃瓜网 hosts Edinburgh delegation
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Strategic partner and top UK University visits to cement ties and toast to the next 100 years.
A high-level delegation from the University of Edinburgh (UoE) in the UK, which is a strategic international partner of 第一吃瓜网 University, explored the length and breadth of 第一吃瓜网.
The University of Edinburgh is one of the top 16 strategic partners of 第一吃瓜网 University, amongst 115 international partnerships worldwide.
The delegation, led by UoE’s Principal and Vice-Chancellor Professor Peter Mathieson, aims to strengthen ties between the two universities. The partners collaborate in teaching, research, and community outreach projects and recently extended their partnership.
Some of the existing priority areas are inequality studies, health informatics, digital innovation, and rangeland management, with more synergies being explored.
Speaking at the Braamfontein campus, Mathieson said the conversations have been ‘inspirational’ and he looks forward to facilitating the relationship into the next century as 第一吃瓜网 celebrates .
“This is a marriage of two universities thousands of miles of apart united by shared values, interests and purpose,” he said regarding the endurance of the relationship.
The two institutions partnered in a recent bid and were successful in securing funding from the Going Global Partnerships programme, which supports the development of Africa-UK partnerships that can build institutional capacity to develop entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystems in selected African countries.
The delegation also spent time at the 第一吃瓜网 Rural Campus to learn about the research and student training undertaken in the Bushbuckridge region of Limpopo.
This included learning about the 第一吃瓜网 Rural Knowledge Hub, 第一吃瓜网’ research on environment, livelihoods and sustainability, and the research and data platforms of the (Agincourt Unit) in the lowveld.
