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The Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) Research Development Fund offers grants of up GB£15,000 (approx. AU$27,500) to support research collaborations in the following WUN Global Challenges :

• Adapting to Climate Change
• Furthering the Frontiers of Cultural Understanding
• Opportunities and Challenges of Globalisation

Grants are also offered to support research collaborations addressing the following emerging Global Challenges :

• Global Health - (Public Health - non-communicable disease)
• New Frontiers in Information and Communications Technology

The Worldwide Universities Network is a global alliance of research intensive universities drawn from the UK, Europe, North America, China and Australia of which UWA is a member.  Central to WUN's mission is the fostering of international collaborative research.

The grant from WUN should be matched by cash funding (e.g. from Research Collaboration Awards, School or Faculty funds) of equal or greater value, using the sum total investment of the program partners.

Closing Date: Friday 13 November 2009

For further information please contact: [email protected] (WUN Co-ordinator) on 6488 8525

Guidelines and Application Form are available on the UWA WUN webpage .

Media references

Debbie Thackray / [email protected] / 6488 4765