Explore the established partnerships and networks the College belongs to. Edinburgh Global The Edinburgh Global website has information about the University’s internationalisation strategy, including regional focus groups, regional deans, global academies and a database of links with institutions around the world. There is also guidance for establishing a new link with an international institution. Edinburgh Global website Building fair and equal partnerships The International Development Research Hub at the Edinburgh Research Office (ERO) has created a toolkit for researchers wishing to build fair and equal partnerships in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). This in-depth guide is a highly recommended resource for all researchers considering working internationally. ERO International development research page including toolkits College membership in international networks UNA Europa Una Europa is an alliance of eight European universities aiming to draw on the collective strengths of its members to create a truly European inter-university environment, a University of the Future. The partners have selected five Focus Areas to launch their collaboration to act as initial thematic “glue” that ties the partners together in their mission to create a virtual campus. The focus areas are: Cultural heritage Data science and artificial intelligence European studies One Health Sustainability Una Europa website U21 Health Sciences Group Led by the College International Dean, this is a global university network of health sciences staff and students from 19 universities worldwide. The networks provides its members a framework for exploring opportunities for collaborative research, information exchang and sharing of resouces. The group includes the disciplines of: Dentistry Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Medicine Nursing and midwifery Pharmacy Public Health Biomedical sciences U21 Health Sciences Group website Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) CUGH is a rapidly growing, Washington, DC based organisation of over 170 academic institutions and other organisations from around the world engaged in addressing global health challenges. CUGH was established in 2008 with generous funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation. CUGH website World Federation of Academic Institutes of Global Health (WFAIGH) The WFAIGH is a global platform for an academic voice to influence policies on health and global governance mechanisms, to promote methodological development and research, and to share good practices in capacity building and educational innovations. WFAIGH website Eurolife Eurolife is a network of nine prestigious academic institutions and European centres with world-wide research excellence reputation in Biomedicine and Medicine across Europe. Eurolife promotes and facilitates collaborative research, joint postgraduate training and education, the exchange of researchers and students and the building of joint research projects. The partnership is currently delivering a 500,000 euro Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership project DATAETHICS, which aims to update the conceptual and ethical considerations that arise from Biomedical Big Data (BBD) collection and use through testing and implementation of an innovative on-line training package. Eurolife website DATAETHICS project website This article was published on 2024-09-09
