Building relationships with the Joint Research Centre

The University of Birmingham signed a collaboration agreement with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Brussels in October 2014. Sally Wiley, international funding officer at the university, is responsible for managing the activities it governs. She explains what the university hopes to achieve.

The Joint Research Centre is the in-house science service of the European Commission, supporting Commission policy-making. Through the three-year collaboration agreement that the University of Birmingham set up with the JRC in 2014 we envisage considerable benefits to be gained by both the university and the centre.

For us, this includes increased research power, and the capacity to shape future research, policy and programmes at a European and international level. The agreement will also accelerate the university’s engagement in both established and forthcoming European and international research initiatives.