Last month I attended a signing ceremony to launch a three year, £198,000 funding agreement between Santander and the University of York. The agreement was signed by our Vice-Chancellor Professor Brian Cantor and the Chairman of Santander UK Lord Terry Burns.
This signing ceremony was the easy part. We are now working out how exactly to allocate and manage the scholarships and awards for students and staff mobility that this funding will provide. We will certainly want to focus on building links in Brazil and Argentina, but the Santander Universities Network also covers a wide range of other countries including the US and China so this will be an opportunity to extend and deepen already existing partnerships.
We do already run a mobility funding scheme, although this is currently limited to a network of 12 overseas institutions. This Friday is the closing date for applications to the Worldwide Universities Network Research Mobility Programme which allows staff and postgraduate students to apply for funding to visit overseas partners in the Worldwide Universities Network. In the last year we have funded visits to the University of Cape Town; University of Washington, Seattle; University of Wisconsin, Madison; Nanjing University (China); University of Western Australia; and the University of Sydney. The feedback from awardees is always incredibly positive, so I’m looking forward to giving out some good news to successful applicants in a few weeks time.
Harriet Cross, International Relations Officer
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