2015 Press Releases
UCC develops collaboration with Rennes
UCC has signed a the Memorandum of Understanding between University College Cork and École Normale Superieure de Rennes (ENS Rennes).
ENS Rennes is a public institution of postgraduate education and research and one of the major French Grandes Écoles which are considered to be the pinnacle of French higher education. ENS Rennes and UCC have collaborated in a number of areas, namely in research into Marine Renewable Energy and graduate student education in Law. However this agreement will expand and formalise the collaboration. It would be hoped that in the immediate future, research laboratories in both institutions will collaborate on joint research projects, encouraging visiting scholar exchange programmes and boosting student mobility at under-graduate and post-graduate levels under the framework of the Erasmus+ European programme.
As the City of Rennes is Twinned with Cork City, during his visit to Cork, Professor Quinton mad a courtesy call to Lord Mayor Councillor Mary Shields, accompanied by Ms Deborah France-Piquet, ENS Rennes Head of International Cooperation and Dr Liam Marnane, Dean of Graduate Studies, UCC.
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