Australian National University (ANU) and the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) have announced the establishment of a partnership agreement between the universities aimed at promoting mutual engagement, cooperation, joint projects and research activities, and faculty and student exchange. Senior officials from both universities gathered at UMD's College Park campus on February 27 to sign the agreement. "International collaborations are increasingly important as we aim to deliver research-based solutions to complex, global problems," said UMD Vice President for Research Laurie Locascio. "We are very pleased to establish this partnership with Australian National University and look forward to continued teamwork and knowledge exchange between our universities." "Collaborating with the University of Maryland will increase our research quality and impact," said Professor Shirley Leitch, Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Global Engagement at ANU. "Both universities are investing in areas of strategic priority for our nations-such as cybersecurity-and this new agreement will support and drive future research, innovation, and skills development." The ANU-UMD partnership specifically focuses on the following areas: 1) the exchange of faculty and students for research, teahing, and study; The five-year agreement will spur collaboration across a variety of research areas, with potential opportunities for joint efforts in fields such as cybersecurity, energy, arts and humanities, social sciences, health and medicine, environment and sustainability, engineering and computer science, and many other disciplines. As a precursor to the partnership, UMD representatives visited the ANU campus in August of 2017 through the Borderless Research Administration Knowledge Exchange (BRAKE) program developed by UMD's Division of Research. BRAKE is an administrative training program that focuses on engaging international institutions as strategic cohorts, helping them to build expertise in research organization and in the management and oversight of U.S. federal funding. The UMD BRAKE team's visit to ANU helped generate discussions about opportunities for collaboration between the two institutions and helped lead to the partnership agreement. For more information about BRAKE, visit: research.umd.edu/international. To see photos from the signing ceremony, visit: go.umd.edu/umdanu. About The Australian National University: About the University of Maryland:
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