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Wednesday, 6 April 2011

The University of Western Australia and the Spanish National Research Council will next week announce collaboration in major joint research programs.

UWA Vice-Chancellor Professor Alan Robson and Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC) President, Professor Rafael Rodrigo, will sign a Memorandum of Understanding on Monday 11 April, 2011.

CSIC Vice-President for International Relationships, Jose Juan Sánchez-Serrano, will also attend the signing ceremony, which outlines collaboration in four broad areas of research.

Collaborating interests are in ocean sciences and technology, astrophysics and radio astronomy, plant and agricultural sciences, computationally-intense sciences and complex system theory.

The two organisations have already established joint positions in ocean science with the appointment of Professors Carlos Duarte as the new Director of the UWA Oceans Institute and Susana Agusti as Professorial Fellow in the School of Plant Biology.

CSIC and UWA have committed to developing staff exchanges, leading to applications for joint research funding and joint supervision of higher degree by research students and postdoctoral fellows, as well as jointly badged publications.  It is expected that over five years this will result in major joint research programs.

What: Signing of MOU between UWA and the Spanish National Research Council

Where: Vice Chancellery, The University of Western Australia

Date: Monday, 11 April, 2011

Time: 10am - 11am

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