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Univ-Link Award 2011 from the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research : Results
During her April 2011 trip to the United States, Valérie Pécresse, the Minister of Higher Education and Research, announced that the Université of Rennes 1 won the “Label d’Excellence” of the French-American academic cooperation “Univ-Link” for the year 2011. Launched by the Minister in June 2010 when she visited Washington D.C., this first award comes with a grant of 40,000€ from the Ministry, to encourage the long term, structured, and deepened academic cooperation.
Valérie Pécresse emphasized on the outstanding quality of this ambitious project regarding the advanced materials for energy and optics, with three dimensions: student mobility, dual-degrees and joint research projects. She pointed out that this Partner University Fund (PUF) partnership distanced itself from the others with an advanced cooperation in PhD under joint supervision, the regular exchange of students and post doc, and the emphasis on co-publications. She also saluted the project of creation of an “Unité Mixte Internationale” aimed to reinforce and structure the joint research.
The University of Rennes 1 has already a PUF grant with the Université of Lille 1 and l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Ingénieurs de Caen, with three PhD under joint supervision with University of Arizona (“dual-PhD”). In total, more than 40 students will participate to those programs and enjoy the exchanges between the two institutions.
Learn more on : Communiqué – Ministry of Higher Education and Research