1. Developing Turkey-UK research partnerships
A UK institution perspective-Imperial College London

2. Imperial at a glance 3,780 15,730 4 Faculties £969M Turnover
Business
Engineering
Medicine
Natural Sciences
£969M Turnover
Student Fees £223M
Research income £427M
Fundraising £31M
3,780
Academic & Research Staff
15,730
Full time Students
Largest medical faculty in europe
World-class scholarship, education & research in science, technology, engineering, medicine & business

3. 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

4. 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

5. A Blueprint for interdisciplinary eco-systems
Research focus

6. 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

7. 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

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

9. 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