The Universities of Manchester, Melbourne and Toronto have announced new funding to develop bi- and trilateral research projects, and a declaration to establish a new International Centre for Translational Digital Health.
The announcements follow the signing of a Strategic Alliance between the three institutions last year, and represents the first steps in expanding the relationship – enhancing cooperation between academics on three continents. The agreements were signed in Manchester following a joint visit on 21 April.
The first, the Manchester-Melbourne-Toronto (MMT) Research Fund 2022, has been jointly funded to a total of £300,000 by the three universities to create partnerships between two or three of the institutions. This follows several years of successful bilateral seed funding programmes between Manchester and Melbourne and Manchester and Toronto.
Academic teams can suggest a project and the fund will help create long-term research collaborations with a view to subsequently attracting external funding. They can be from any research discipline and projects will build on the joint strengths of the three universities involved.
