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Research partnerships

Achieving success through our global collaborations

We are committed to deepening and broadening our research partnerships with leading international companies and key global engineering and technology educational institutions.

We believe in partnering with industry partners and like-minded engineering and computer science around the world to form strategic collaborations. In doing so, we aim to:

advance shared research projects
deliver focused mobility programs
develop joint education initiatives
increase the opportunities for early career researchers to join forces with their international counterparts.

To help maximise our collaborations, all international industry and university collaborations may be eligible for government funding support. These schemes are open to international participants.

Successful industry partnerships: AB Mauri

Industry Postgraduate Research Scholarship

We offer a prestigious industry scholarship program to support the development of your organisation’s engineering capacity.

This scholarship offers your employees the opportunity to complete a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Engineering & Information Technologies at the University of Sydney.

The University will cover the cost of tuition fees, whilst your orgnisation will commit to providinga range of financial benefits to the employee.

If you're an employer and wish to discuss this opportunity for your employees, please get in contact.

If you're a potential candidate, please find out more about our research programs and entry requirements.

Successful industry partnerships: Thales

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Sandra Margon

Head, External Relations

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+61 466 150 441

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sandra.margon@sydney.edu.au

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Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies The University of Sydney

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engineering.external@sydney.edu.au

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Sydney University and General Electric to drive Australian manufacturing

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24 January 2020

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ARC funding for myrtle rust and aerosol measurement technology

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17 December 2019

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18 November 2019

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Engineering researchers awarded over $2 million in funding

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ARC announces funding for chemical remediation technology

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New funding for high-resolution beam development

Professor Xiaoke Yi and Professor Robert Minasian have received a $540,000 Australian Research Council Linkage Project grant to partner with Thales Australia and develop integrated optical phased arrays for light detection and ranging.

14 December 2018

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GE Additive agreement advances Australia's manufacturing capacity

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University of Sydney partners with Korean steelmaker, POSCO

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