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NZ and EU student exchange on climate change
Friday, 10 October 2008
The New Zealand government and the European Commission are co-funding a university-based programme which will focus on developing better technology to monitor the parameters of climate change such as temperature, gas concentration and water quality.
(via Massey University) Massey University and Victoria University of Wellington are involved on the New Zealand side. Both universities will work with University of Limerick in Ireland, and its partner institutions, Universität Rostock in Germany and City University in the United Kingdom.
Project leader and Massey Associate Professor Subhas Mukhopadhyay says the School of Engineering and Advanced Technology will send six undergraduate or Masters students each year to the partner institutions.
“Students will be able to study the leading research being carried out in Europe and add it to what they learn here,” Dr Mukhopadhyay says. “And of course the students coming here as part of the exchange will add what we teach to their knowledge.”
Massey’s area of expertise concerns sensors for quality inspection of seafood, water quality and control and clothes for the environment, he says. “But the University of Limerick, for example, specialises in optical fibre sensors for environmental monitoring.”
The students will have their air travel paid for by a scholarship and receive a NZ$1500 per month allowance during their stay.
Dr Mukhopadhyay expects the first students will begin the exchange in semester two next year.
Tertiary Education Minister Pete Hodgson says the programme will strengthen tertiary education links between New Zealand and Europe.
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