8th August 2013 Toronto, Canada
Canadian science news: 29 July-4 August 2013
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31st July 2013 Ottawa, Canada
UK releases International Education Strategy
On Monday, July 29th the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) released its International Education Strategy. This strategy outlines how the UK will work with businesses, schools and universities to develop the economic opportunities of the growing education sector. Strategy highlights include: Welcoming international students: the strategy explains that there is no cap on the […]
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30th July 2013 Ottawa, Canada
Canadian High Performance Computing and Big Data Capabilities
National infrastructure for supercomputing-powered research High performance computing (HPC) has become an indispensable and enabling technology across all research fields. Some fields have a long history with computing such as computer science, astrophysics, weather (climate modeling) and engineering. In Canada, researchers are managing and analyzing immensely large and complex data sets from sources such as […]
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29th July 2013 Toronto, Canada
Canadian science news: 22-28 July 2013
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23rd July 2013 Ottawa, Canada
They’re back! The 2013 Collaboration Development Awards!
The Science and Innovation team in Canada is very happy to announce the launch of this year’s Collaboration Development Awards …
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23rd July 2013 Toronto, Canada
Canadian science news: 15-21 July 2013
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17th July 2013 Toronto, Canada
Canadian science news: 8-14 July 2013
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11th July 2013 Ottawa, Canada
uStrathclyde and uDalhousie sign Wave and Tidal Energy MoU
The University of Strathclyde in Scotland signed a Tidal and Wave Energy research Memorandum of Understanding with Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia on the 5th of July. (See press release here) In a ceremony near Glasgow, Scotland, members of the Scottish and Nova Scotia governments witnessed Strathclyde executive dean of engineering Scott MacGregor and Dalhousie […]
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8th July 2013 Toronto, Canada
Canadian science news: 1-7 July 2013
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28th June 2013 Toronto, Canada
Science and the UK Spending Round 2013
On 26 June 2013, the Chancellor of the Exchequer presented the 2013 Spending Round to Parliament. The 2013 Spending Round sets out how the government will spend approximately £740 billion of taxpayers’ money in 2015-2016, and make further savings to improve the economy. What does this mean for science, research and international collaboration? Let’s take […]