UniCat extends its network.
Foto: UniCat / Martin Penno
In August, Prof. Matthias Driess signed a trilateral memorandum of understanding between the Spanish University Rovira i Virgili in Catalona and the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (Institut Català d’Investigació Química; ICIQ) also located in Tarragona. The cooperation fosters the exchange and mobility in research and teaching in the field of catalysis.
There will be collaboration between Postgraduate Schools, collaboration in international master’s and PhD programmes, development of mutually beneficial academic programmes and courses, coordination of academic staff and student mobility and coordination of academic activities such as joint research, publication and symposia.
Already in December 2009 representatives of both research institutions came to TU Berlin, invited by Foreign Relations Office of TUB.
The ICIQ was founded by the Catalan Government. It is similar to a German Leibniz-Institute and specialised on catalysis of chemical processes, supramolecular chemistry and renewable energies.
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