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UK/Europe

Europe/UK is home to many of U of T’s most robust partnerships, which have developed through a long history of faculty collaborations, student mobility, and staff partnerships.

Partnerships in the Region

European countries are among U of T’s top collaborators, including the United Kingdom which is our 2nd largest partner for co-authored publications. Top areas for joint publication include medicine, social sciences, computer science, engineering, and physics and astronomy. Our faculty play leadership roles in many Europe-based institutes, including the Max Planck Society in Germany. European countries are consistently among the most popular for both inbound and outbound student mobility.

U of T’s strategic engagement in Europe is informed by a President’s International Council, comprised of U of T faculty members with expertise in the region and an International Leadership Council, comprised of U of T senior alumni based in the region.

U of T maintains strong strategic partnerships with corporations from across Europe and the UK. We have long-running relationships with companies headquartered in France (e.g. Safran, Total, Sanofi, Schlumberger) and Germany (e.g. Boehringer Ingleheim, Merck KGaA, BASF, Bayer). The University also frequently partners with British, Dutch, Swedish, and Swiss based corporations.

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  • 2066

    (Fall 2022)

    Degree students

  • 2520

    (2018-2023)

    Student mobility

    Inbound & Outbound

  • 7289

    Alumni

  • 13622

    (2018-2022)

    Joint publications

Partnership Highlights

The French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)

CNRS is U of T’s largest partner in France. Since 2016, the partnership has grown through several joint calls for proposals seeding research collaborations and supporting PhD education. In 2022, a call for Twin Research Scholars was launched to further deepen collaborations in philosophy, quantum communications, and biomedical engineering across the next 3-5 years.
U of T is a member of the CNRS-initiated Canada-France Quantum Alliance International Research Network (IRN). U of T joined 15 other universities from France and Canada to strengthen collaborations in research and education across the Atlantic.

University College London (UCL)

UCL is U of T’s first Global Research Alliance partner, U of T’s highest tier of international partnership. Both institutions have shared interests in city-building, brain health, child health and education, and a similar philosophy underlining their approach to internationalization. The partnership has deepened through seven joint calls for proposals including workshops on affordable housing, AI (health care & ethics), research projects related to COVID-19 challenges, and a doctoral research collaboration on Mediterranean archaeology. Most recently, a two-stream call allowed senior researchers to scale up existing collaborations and, alternatively, for early career researchers to begin exploring international joint research and develop their collaborative networks.

University of Manchester

The University of Manchester is a Global Research Alliance (GRA) partner, U of T’s highest level of international partnership. Since September 2018, both institutions have jointly contributed funds to support collaborative education and research initiatives through joint calls for proposals. The funds have supported projects in areas of mutual strength including quantum science, biomaterials, cities, immigration, infectious disease, chemistry, and digital humanities.

In 2021, Manchester, the University of Melbourne and U of T established the trilateral MMT alliance. Building from strong bilateral partnerships, the alliance fosters student exchanges and joint research projects while providing the partners with an opportunity to make a greater impact on the world stage across three continents. The International Centre for Translational Digital Health was established to focus on the translation of new health technologies, policies, and service delivery models.