Our multilateral network facilitates sustainable collaboration in research, learning and teaching to address global challenges

Our multilateral network facilitates sustainable collaboration in research, learning and teaching to address global challenges

We are shaping the future for generations to come

Established in 2011, the UGPN provides a distinctive and effective forum for engagement between the partner universities

Established in 2011, the UGPN provides a distinctive and effective forum for engagement between the partner universities

We are shaping the future for generations to come

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A powerful collaboration

Partnering for progress

The University Global Partnership Network (UGPN) sets out to create a foundation for international collaboration enabling academics and students from some of the world’s top universities to work together on issues of global importance.

UGPN Research & Collaboration

The research fund has been instrumental in catalysing researcher interactions across the UGPN and has funded 87 projects including 27 trilateral and 7 quadrilateral projects representing an investment in excess of US$2 million.

A Global Centre for Clean Air Research

Researchers developed a methodology for integration of local urban scale pollution data into global/regional scale models of pollution hotspots, health impacts, low-cost pollution sensors and human exposure.

Resilience and diversity in early childhood development

Key researchers across the UGPN network teamed up to develop and co-ordinate studies on early childhood development with the specific aim to build the foundation for a quadrilateral cohort study in due course.

Genes and Behaviour: circadian rhythmicity and sleep

This project brought together scientists across the UGPN network with interests in different sub-disciplines related to genes and behaviour to exchange experience, insights, and experimental tools.

Flexible Functional Nano-Carbon Electrodes for Energy Devices

Investigators from three UGPN partner universities are working together to discover new sources of energy for wearable applications and devices.

  • The UGPN partnership is an important plank of our internationalisation strategy and I look forward to USP helping the UGPN realise its vision to provide solutions to the global challenges facing all of us in the world today and in the future.

    Professor Carlos Gilberto Carlotti Junior, Rector, University of São Paulo

  • Priority partnerships like the University Global Partnership Network leverage complementary strengths in research, education and outreach to promote scholarly exchange and meaningful collaboration.

    Dr Warwick Arden, Vice-Chancellor and Provost, NC State University

  • The UGPN brings together likeminded institutions from across four continents to work towards shared objectives in education, research and knowledge transfer.

    Professor G Q Max Lu, Vice-Chancellor, University of Surrey

Our Partners

The UGPN facilitates the meeting of minds of international academics who collaborate on research, learning and teaching; and whose shared research expertise enables innovative solutions to issues of global importance.
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Dr. Warwick Arden
Vice-Chancellor and Provost
NC State University
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Professor Carlos Gilberto Carlotti Junior
Rector University of São Paulo
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Professor G Q Max Lu
President and Vice-Chancellor
University of Surrey
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Dr. Amy Conger
Vice Provost for Global Engagement NC State University
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Professor Sergio Persival Baroncini Proença
Provost (International Cooperation) University of São Paulo
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Patrick Degg
Vice-President
(External Engagement)
University of Surrey