Joint Seed Fund

On 12^th June 2018, Vice President Zhen Huang of SJTU and Senior Vice Principal Charlie Jeffery of UoE signed a Seed Funding Agreement on behalf of both universities to finance a £600,000 collaborative research, teaching and innovation development fund. The 3-year joint seed fund will sponsor 10 projects every year, supporting international travel and accommodation for academic and professional staff and promoting collaborative research, teaching and innovation development in areas of common interest.

Below are the successful applications of year 2018/19 (first round).

2018/19 SJTU-UoE Seed Fund - Successful Applications
No.	UoE PI Name	SJTU PI Name	Project Title
1	Neil Robertson	赵一新Yixin Zhao	Lead free halide perovskite for solar cells
2	Stuart Haszeldine	李佳Jia LI	Carbon Capture and Storage, low carbon energy to create value in China
3	Daniel Friedrich	徐会金Huijin Xu	Experimental and theoretical evaluation of heat transfer in thermochemical energy storage
4	Gareth Harrison	吕小静Xiaojing Lv	Exploring low carbon multi-energy systems
5	Dan van der Horst	卢婷婷Tingting Lu	Best practice in green space provision for low carbon cities
6	Mathieu Lucquiaud	党琪Qi Dang	Challenges and Opportunities for Biomass and Waste to Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage in the UK and China
7	Chang Liu	蔡伟伟Weiwei Cai	Cost-effective CO2 and CO monitoring with laser absorption spectroscopy
8	Xi Liang	Jeffrey Wilson	Investigating the Value of Carbon Capture and Sequestration in a Natural Capital Context
9	Ondrej Masek	董雪Xue Dong	Biomass gasification/pyrolysis driven by high flux concentrated solar radiation
10	Ruth Doherty	余海珊Haishan Yu	Public perception on the integrated management of climate change and air pollution

The second-round call for applications is expected to start at the end of 2019.