In recent years, universities in central China have been producing high-quality research and forging collaborations in key disciplines, such as hydraulic engineering, aerospace technology, and translational medicine.
Then the U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation this spring will bring a half-dozen top former weapons scientists to Washington, D.C., for a week-long visit with top U.S. scientists and officials with an eye toward forging collaborations.
Inspired by the growing prominence of the zebrafish model in biomedical research, EuFishBioMed (www.eufishbiomed.kit.edu/) and ZF-HEALTH (zf-health.org/) recently joined forces to organise a meeting with the primary aim of forging collaborations between the established 'zebrafish community' and newcomers that hope the model will shed light on unanswered questions in their disease area.
Having forged collaborations with a Japanese lacquer artist, Seizo Sugawara, and a Scottish weaver, Evelyn Wyld, she slowly began to exhibit her work, and to sell it to wealthy collectors.
Increasingly integral to the L.A. Phil's mission, Smith has forged collaborations with filmmakers, choreographers, architects, visual artists, and educators, enmeshing the orchestra in Los Angeles culture.
Meanwhile, Cyrus Kabiru, Norbert Okec and other participants in the Maker Faire Africa events in Lagos, Nairobi and Cairo are to take up residencies in Istanbul where they will forge collaborations with Turkish designers, manufacturers and artisans.
Britain's Medical Research Council (MRC) is planning major changes in the way it funds projects in universities, pushing researchers to forge collaborations or else see their funds dry up.
The relationships he developed at these institutions allowed him to forge collaborations with fellow experts, participate in lectures, and present papers nationally and internationally.
In addition to furthering women's careers, the program has a parallel goal of helping Swedish institutions forge collaborations with other institutions, both within Sweden and abroad.
The Network forges collaborations that unite people from disciplines as varied as cancer research, veterinary medicine, diagnostic imaging, tissue bioengineering, and methodologies and outcomes.
Another uncertainty is whether many of Cuba's top scientists, who have forged collaborations with colleagues in Europe and elsewhere, will embrace working with a country that sought to isolate them for so long.
