Bahawalpur, April 04, 2023 (PPI-OT):The Institute of Physics, the Islamia University Bahawalpur won the British Council Pak-UK Education Gateway Mobility Partnership Project for Faculty. Vice-Chancellor the Islamia University of Bahawalpur Engr. Prof. Dr. Athar Mahboob has said that this achievement is a manifestation of the high academic standards and international level teaching and research of the Islamia University of Bahawalpur. In this partnership, UK and Pakistani universities will work together to develop higher education linkages between UK and Pakistan. The representative/applicant Universities from Pakistan and UK will design a rigorous short-term mobility program on different thematic areas.
Dr. Kaneez Rabia from the Institute of Physics, the Islamia University of Bahawalpur and Prof. Alan J. Drew from the Queen Marry University of London are playing the leading role in the project on the theme of Energy (generation, distribution, and conservation).The Pakistani team of this project consists of 11-Faculty members, 9 from the Institute of Physics, the Islamia University of Bahawalpur, one from COMSATS University Islamabad, and one from the Govt. Sadiq College Women University, Bahawalpur. The UK team of this project consists of 8- Faculty members from Queen Marry University of London will also visit to the Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Pakistan.
Through this program, there would be capacity building of the Islamia University of Bahawalpur faculty staff in advanced characterization and analysis techniques. A meeting with a number of other key players in the energy and batteries research area will be arranged by UK team. Examples are the “Batteries Innovation Centre” in Coventry and the Faraday Institution (representative universities, such as Cambridge, Oxford, Imperial, UCL, Sheffield, etc.). Different members of the team will identify their areas of future collaboration between the wider faculty of the Queen Marry University of London and other Universities in the UK. The detail about potential future funding schemes involving Pakistan-UK international collaboration in the energy arena will also be the agenda of this visit.
A scientific workshop will be arranged by the Institute of physics, the Islamia University of Bahawalpur. The research students and the faculty from Physics and chemistry department will get an opportunity to have one to one contact with the UK delegation, consequently broader collaborative opportunities. Engr. Prof. Dr. Athar Mahboob, Vice Chancellor, the Islamia University of Bahawalpur congratulated the project team and appreciated the efforts of Prof. Dr. Saeed Ahmad Buzdar, Dean Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Science and Dr. Kaniz Rabia, the project lead, to bring the Islamia University of Bahawalpur in collaboration with technologically advanced countries.
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