![A group of students having a collaborative study session, smiling and discussing while sitting around a small table with open books.](/images/resized/1200x600-0-0-1-80-Untitled_design___2025_03_24T145506.415.png")
Global Engagement
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Strategic partners
We have strategic partnerships with institutions across China, Germany and South Africa to address the UN Sustainable Development Goals, solve global challenges, and reduce inequality.
![A group of delegates from ¾ÞÈéÊÓƵ, including Professor Shearer West, stand together, facing the camera.](/images/resized/600x400-0-0-1-80-Hamburg4_800x400_1.jpg")
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Education opportunities
We partner with institutions around the world to deliver joint teaching and collaborative awards in a wide range of subject areas.
![Four international students sitting at a picnic bench on campus. They are smiling and one student is waving.](/images/resized/600x400-0-0-1-80-Information_for_international_students_1.jpg")
![Student smiling near Uluru/Ayers Rock in Australia](/images/resized/1200x600-0-0-1-80-Untitled_design___2025_03_27T163346.454.png")
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Creating a drought to predict the Amazon 'tipping point'
An international research project in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest is underway, exploring the effects of extreme drought to identify how to protect forests in the face of climate change.
![Professor Ben Hur Marimon Junior, Professor David Galbraith, Professor Antonio Carlos Lola da Costa and Prof. Beatriz Schwantes Marimon stand looking up to the sunny sky, in front of a background of trees.](/images/resized/1000x500-0-0-1-80-5.Seca_Limite_Coordination_Team_1000x500_1.jpg")
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Turning a pest into an opportunity
Research in Uganda is exploring how an invasive species of water plant can be turned into biogas for cooking.
![Woman and child harvesting water hyacinths at Achuodho Beach, Lake Victoria, Kenya.](/images/resized/800x400-0-0-1-80-Water_2.jpg")
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Forging collaboration through snow and ice
Next year, a team of scientists from Nepal, the UK and Norway will head to the notorious Khumbu Icefall, to drill into and take the temperature of the glacier at over 6000m altitude.
![A researcher kneels on rocks next to a river in a valley, studying the river and rocks below.](/images/resized/800x400-0-0-1-80-20181103_130942__2__1.jpg")
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Corals, communities and climate change
An international research project is examining which coral reefs are proving more resilient than others to the effects of a warmer and more acidic ocean caused by climate change.
![A shoal of fish swimming above a coral reef, in bright turquoise ocean water](/images/resized/800x400-0-0-1-80-Snappers_LP_IMG_2578_1000x500.jpg")
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Vulnerable but resilient: Indigenous communities facing COVID-19
How indigenous populations were affected by, and responded to, COVID-19
![An educational workshop about COVID-19 with the Shawi people in Peru](/images/resized/800x400-0-0-1-80-Educational_workshop_with_the_Shawi_people_800x400.jpg")
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Keyhole surgery technology and training to reduce inequalities in healthcare
A team of surgeons, engineers and designers have designed a technology to make it easier to carry out abdominal keyhole surgery in remote and low resource locations.
![Dr Gnanaraj (surgical trainer) watches as trainees assemble a RetrActor for Insufflation-less Surgery (RAIS) device.](/images/resized/800x400-0-0-1-80-keyhole_surgery_case_study_1000_x_500.jpg")
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Sowing seeds of hope for Amazon conservation
Commerce and climate change have decimated 17% of the rainforest over the last 50 years - but communities are building it back from the soil upwards.
![Professor Beatriz Schwantes Marimon holds some rainforest leaves.](/images/resized/800x400-0-0-1-80-SAM_1081_1.png")