Developing Turkey-UK research partnerships A UK institution perspective-Imperial College London www.eurieeducationsummit.com

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Our standing Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 Greatest concentration of high impact research of any major UK university. 4th overall for 4* or “world leading research” Imperial is the UK’s most international university (5th in the world) according to Times Higher Education QS World University Rankings 2016/17 – 9th Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2016/17 - 8th overall, 3rd in Europe, 1st in UK for international outlook Reuters Europe’s Most innovative universities 2016 – 2nd Times/Sunday Times Good University Guide 2017 – 5th in UK The Guardian University League Table 2017 1st for Career Prospects Around 60% of students and 40% of staff come from outside the UK www.eurieeducationsummit.com

Our people Students 15,730 full-time (2015-16) 9,320 – undergraduate 3,240 – taught postgraduate 3,174 – research postgraduate 127 undergraduate courses 149 postgraduate taught courses 6.7:1 ratio of undergraduate applications to admissions Staff 3,777 academic and research staff 3,770 support staff Alumni Over 190,000 alumni Nationalities of students at Imperial www.eurieeducationsummit.com

A Blueprint for interdisciplinary eco-systems Research focus www.eurieeducationsummit.com

Imperial and Turkey Turkey is the College’s top collaborating country in the region 884 Joint publications between an Imperial author and a Turkish partner at 82 collaborating institutions, over the last five years 49 Turkish students enrolled at the College, across every Faculty 17 Turkish members of staff working at the College The College has a number of research projects with Turkey www.eurieeducationsummit.com

Katip Celebi-Newton fund at Imperial Imperial College is the top funded UK University in the Katip Celebi-Newton Fund The College has: institutional links awards researcher links workshop grant a funded PhD student The awards cross the Faculty of Engineering, the Faculty of Natural Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine Turkish partner universities: Istanbul Technical University Sabanci University Ege University Adnan Menderes University Meliksah University www.eurieeducationsummit.com

Challenges for the College Coordination of the programme internally Timing of calls Funding levels Eligibility criteria ODA requirements www.eurieeducationsummit.com

Positive outcomes Increase in Turkish students studying at the College Greater number of publications with Turkey Renewed interest in working with Turkish institutions Opportunities for Early Career Researchers to access funding Opportunity to develop links and access other funding streams www.eurieeducationsummit.com