Research Collaboration between WMG and IIT Kharagpur

摘要：华威大学和印度理工学院Kharagpur （IIT-KGP）签署了一项协议，共同努力应对英国和印度面临的重要挑战，特别是在低碳经济、先进医疗保健、高效无污染运输系统和安全ICT系统方面的技术。这些技术挑战将通过跨机构、跨科学、跨学术界和商界的多学科合作来应对，以创造和应用我们需要的创新解决方案。该协议建立在华威大学WMG（华威制造集团）和IIT-KGP之间现有联系的基础上，为未来的研发合作制定了一个令人兴奋的议程，并为WMG的IIT-KGP和WMG在Kharagpur的“细胞”创建“细胞”，作为开发的重点。WMG和IIT-KGP将首先将合作重点放在经济、环境和生活质量对印度和英国的重要性这三个主题上：低碳汽车、医疗技术和信息通信技术/电子安全。该提案寻求支持WMG研究主题负责人的三个主题的差旅费用，并领导学者在他们的团队中在IIT-KGP工作。研究经费由现有的拨款支付，特别是由合作项目的工业资助支付。海外旅行补助金提案中寻求的种子玉米资金将用于支持WMG的学术人员和主要研究人员前往印度理工学院- kgp开展、推进和帮助开展这三个主题的合作研究的旅费。在三年期间，将支持对印度理工学院- kgp进行大约35次访问，每次访问通常为期一周。研究将由现有和新的研究学生和研究人员进行。在EPSRC的资助完成后，该计划将自我维持，研究团队和基金之间建立了全面的联系，继续通过行业和政府资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.