| Munster/New Zealand educational hook-up |
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| Written by Rachael Finucane | |
| Tuesday, 25 November 2008 | |
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MUNSTER and the All Blacks may have been opponents on the rugby pitch but the two regions are now university partners as UL has secured an EU Grant to fund students to study for a semester in New Zealand. UL is the first Irish university to secure the funds to lead an International Mobility Programme and will be allocated €250,000 over the next three years to facilitate and fund four science and engineering students to study for a semester in New Zealand each year. The fund will also allow for two faculty members per year to spend some time in one of two New Zealand universities with which UL has developed links. The programme was developed by Professor Elfed Lewis—Director of the Optical Fibre Sensors Research Centre within UL’s Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering—with support from the International Education Division at UL. It involves the exchange of students from UL as well as Rostock University in Germany, and the City University in London with students from Massey University in Palmerston North, and Victoria University of Wellington. The EU—NZ joint mobility programme developed by UL had to compete against a number of similar programme proposals but was the only successful Irish lead institution involved in any of the categories which were granted EU funding in Brussels last week. Professor Lewis said that “the project represents a synergy of the expertise of five higher education institutions from four different countries building on their complementary expertise to improve the knowledge, awareness and skills of students undertaking engineering programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate level”. “The opportunity to spend time studying somewhere like New Zealand is out of reach for most students because of the high costs that would be involved. This fund will now facilitate that opportunity as well as strengthening our links with four other exemplary institutes for higher education,” he added. |
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