24th February 2014 Chicago, USA
I guest-blogged over on The Naked Scientists’ site this month on the AAAS meeting and the visit of David Willetts, UK Minister for Universities and Science. Read it here.
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20th February 2014 Montreal, Canada
As promised, voilà! – the last chapter of the series “smarty blog themes”. The “smart and distinguished” British visitors came by train from Ottawa and stayed at same hotel where John Lennon and Yoko Ono did their Bed-In in Montréal in 1969 (which ended with a spontaneous recording of Give Peace a Chance). But who […]
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10th January 2014 Toronto, Canada
Trouble reading this story or moving through pages? Check it out on Storify here: http://storify.com/SINCanada/global-sin-conference-2013 [View the story “Global SIN Conference 2013” on Storify]
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26th September 2013 Toronto, Canada
We had such excellent outcomes from our UK-Canada Collaboration Development Awards (CDAs) in 2012 that we decided to run them again this year (here’s the announcement). We got 86 applications, and were able to fund 11 based on their ability to deliver mutually beneficial outcomes for Canada and the UK. It was a very strong […]
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25th June 2013 Toronto, Canada
UK-Canada cooperation in regenerative medicine and cell therapy continues to thrive, with the Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine (CCRM) in Canada and Cell Therapy Catapult in the UK recently signing a collaborative agreement. Initial outputs from SIN Canada’s main project in this sector (Setting the standard for cell therapy) are expected towards the end […]
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14th May 2013 Toronto, Canada
Earlier this month, we recruited a new intern to work with SIN Canada from the British Consulate-General here in Toronto. Saira Meese-Tamuri will be taking projects based on some of the eight great technologies forward, as well as working on external communications (follow her on Twitter at @SMeeseTamuri). You may have already seen some of […]
14th March 2013 Toronto, Canada
This is a guest post by Dr. Srivas Chennu of the University of Cambridge, a nueroscientist who visited Canada last year as part of a SIN project. Scott and the Machine: International collaborations in the study of disorders of consciousness It was a busy 2012 for Scott Routley. For a while last year, he shot […]
3rd January 2013 Toronto, Canada
If you aren’t familiar with the Raspberry Pi, it’s a $35 computer about the size of a credit card. Designed and assembled in the UK, the RPi was conceived as an educational tool to bring “real” computer science back into schools. Rather than simply learning how to be an end-user of computer programs, students would […]
11th October 2012 Toronto, Canada
The 4th Canadian Science Policy Conference (CSPC), subtitled Building Bridges for the Future of Science Policy, will take place in Calgary between 5 and 7 November 2012. We have excellent UK representation this year, with speakers in two panels and SIN Officers in attendance: The Fundamental Research as a Driver for Long-Term Canadian Innovation panel […]
9th October 2012 Toronto, Canada
Back in July, we announced our first ever Collaboration Development Award(CDA) programme. The CDAs are small mobility grants for researchers to travel between Canada and the UK and set out plans for longer-term collaborations in areas of strategic importance to SIN. The quality of applications was very high, with many proposals strong enough to qualify […]
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