KAUST, Imperial College sign science agreement

[al-Hasani]

RIYADH: RASHID HASSAN
Published — Saturday 30 November 2013

Last update 30 November 2013 12:42 am​

The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and Imperial College London signed a new science research partnership recently, the British embassy announced on Friday.
“A partnership in material science and chemical engineering has been signed between KAUST and Imperial College London to bolster human resources development and collaborative research,” the embassy said in a statement.
The UK Science and Innovation Network (SIN), which is based in 28 countries to harness technology partnerships, has supported the partnership to boost research and development in the two countries.
The SIN said KAUST was set up to instill an ethos of research excellence principally through strategic collaborations with international partners.
The SIN, which is based at the British Embassy in Doha, supports science and innovation partnering in the six Gulf Cooperation Council countries. “Saudi Arabia has the strongest research base of the region spread across a number of research institutions and universities.”
Earlier, KAUST and the Imperial college signed a $50 million academic excellence alliance for joint collaboration in research, curriculum development and academic recruitment.
KAUST has also signed academic excellence alliances with Stanford University, the University of Texas at Austin and the University of California-Berkeley.
Built and operated for the first three years by Saudi Aramco, KAUST has the third largest endowment of any university in the world, following Harvard and Yale, and often referred to as a new “House of Wisdom” or an “Arab M.I.T,” in reference to the renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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