Research Collaboration between WMG and IIT Kharagpur

总结：沃里克大学和印度理工学院Kharagpur（IIT-KGP）签署了一项协议，共同应对英国和印度面临的重要挑战-特别是低碳经济技术，先进的医疗保健技术，高效的无污染运输系统，以及安全的ICT系统。这些技术挑战将通过多学科的合作伙伴关系来应对，跨机构，跨科学，跨学术界和企业合作，以创建和应用我们需要的创新解决方案。在沃里克的WMG（沃里克制造集团）和IIT-KGP之间现有联系的基础上，该协议提出了一个令人兴奋的未来研发合作议程，并为WMG的IIT-KGP和Kharagpur的WMG创建了“细胞”，作为开发的重点。WMG和IIT-KGP将首先将合作重点放在对印度和英国具有经济、环境和生活质量重要性的三个主题上：低碳汽车、医疗技术和ICT/电子安全。该提案寻求对WMG研究主题领导三个主题的差旅费的支持，并在他们的团队中领导学者在IIT-KGP工作。研究经费由现有赠款支付，特别是由工业界为合作方案提供的经费支付。海外旅行补助金提案中寻求的种子玉米资金将支持学术人员的旅行费用，并带领WMG的研究人员前往IIT-KGP，以开发，进步和帮助利用这三个主题的合作研究。在三年的时间里，大约35次IIT-KGP访问将得到支持，每次通常为期一周。研究将由现有和新的研究生和研究人员进行。在EPSRC资助完成后，该倡议将自我维持，研究小组和基金之间建立了充分的联系，以继续通过工业和政府赞助的研究项目寻求合作。

Summary: The University of Warwick and the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT-KGP) have signed an agreement to work together to meet challenges of importance to the UK and India - in particular the technologies for low-carbon economies, for advanced healthcare, for efficient non-polluting transport systems, and for secure ICT systems. These technology challenges will be met through a multi-disciplinary partnership, working across institutions, across sciences, and across academia and business to create and apply innovative solutions that we need. Building on the existing links between WMG (Warwick Manufacturing Group) at Warwick and IIT-KGP, the agreement sets out an exciting agenda of future R&D collaboration and the creation of 'cells' for IIT-KGP at WMG and for WMG at Kharagpur as a focus for exploitation. WMG and IIT-KGP will focus their partnership initially on three themes of economic, environmental and quality-of-life importance to India and the UK: low-carbon vehicles, medical technology and ICT/e-security. This proposal seeks support for travel costs for the WMG research theme leads for the three themes, and lead academics in their teams to work at IIT-KGP. Research funding is covered by existing grants and, in particular, industrial funding for collaborative programmes. The seed corn funding sought in the Overseas Travel Grant proposal will support the travel costs of academic staff and lead researchers at WMG to travel to IIT-KGP to develop, progress and help exploit collaborative research in the three themes. Over the three year period approximately 35 visits to IIT-KGP will be supported, each of typically a week's duration. Research will be undertaken by existing and new research students and researchers. The Initiative will be self sustaining after EPSRC funding completes with full links having been established between the research teams and funds to continue collaboration being sought through industry and government sponsored research projects.