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The University of Waterloo hosted a welcome reception for fifteen new Indonesian students on Thursday, September 26th, as part of the Indonesian International Student Mobility Awards (IISMA). IISMA is a scholarship program by the Government of the Republic of Indonesia to fund top achieving Indonesian students an opportunity to study at a high-ranking international partner university. It is the fourth year Waterloo has welcomed students from the program.

In June, the Faculty of Environment formalized its partnership with the University of Cape Coast (UCC) in Ghana to strengthen their connection and focus on key areas of collaboration including academic programs, joint teaching and research activities and mobility of faculty, staff and students.  

Read more about the partnership.

The University of Twente, located in the Netherlands, and University of Waterloo signed their first Research Agreement in 2016, but have been collaborating since 2007 when Twente visited Waterloo to kick-start relations. Since that development, with the support of a presidential visit in 2022, our partnership has effectively collaborated in the areas of bioengineering & biotechnology, health, and nanotechnology – with an interest in expanding into water. Waterloo International has been thrilled to steward the Twente/Waterloo Strategic Collaboration Grants (SCG) with our colleagues at Twente.

I recently finished a superb first-ever trip to Vietnam, which was literally ‘years in the making.’ Of course, people across campus have connected with individuals in Vietnam for years, but Waterloo International has taken relatively little proactive action in Vietnam in recent years. In 2021, however, that began to change.

On 7 November 2023, the University of Waterloo hosted valued partner the University of Strathclyde for a senior leadership visit.

The incoming delegation, led by Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Sir Jim McDonald, consisted of Deans from three of Strathclyde’s Faculties, as well as leadership from internationalization, commercialization, and secretary parts of the university.

I had an excellent trip to East Asia last week, where I had the opportunity to meet with university leaders, government officials, and others in both Japan and South Korea. It is clear to me that the University of Waterloo is well-positioned to grow meaningful engagement with East Asian partners across a range of research, innovation, learning, and community activities for impact.

I have just completed a superb visit to Indonesia on behalf of the University of Waterloo.  My second trip to Indonesia, it was an opportunity to deepen existing connections and to make new ones too. Waterloo has been active with Indonesian partners for decades. Led by the Faculties of Environment and Mathematics, collaborations around sustainable development and actuarial science have served to advance understanding, learning, training, and well-being.

We are thrilled to work with our partner University of Twente, Netherlands to announce the newly formed ‘Twente and Waterloo Strategic Collaboration Grants (SCG)’. Full details can be found on this website. We would like to invite the Waterloo and Twente communities to apply by the submission deadline of Wednesday, 8 November 2023. Upon reviewing the website for the SCG funding call, please direct any questions to Eric Jardin (ejardin@uwaterloo.ca) at Waterloo, or Margriet Dekkers (m.a.h.dekkers@utwente.nl) at Twente.

Waterloo International is pleased to announce that Tamara Zur joins the team as Associate Director, International Operations for a one-year secondment. 

On Thursday Sept. 28^th, Waterloo International hosted a reception for the recipients of the Indonesian International Student Mobility Awards (IISMA). In addition to the award recipients, several staff and faculty members who had been directly involved in the IISMA program were invited. The event was well attended with all 15 award recipients attending.

Students were welcomed to the event and the University of Waterloo by AVPI Dr. Ian Rowlands, and then had the opportunity to network with faculty members to connect and provide feedback on their experience thus far.