A high-powered group of ANU researchers travelled to Melbourne to establish stronger links with the Melbourne business community late last month, coinciding with the announcement that ANU and the University of Melbourne have signed a deal for closer cooperation.

ANU Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Chubb announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between ANU and Melbourne at an ANU-hosted lunch with Melbourne business community.

Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research addressed the forum about the importance of fostering a culture of innovation in Australia, with strong ties between research institutions, government and industry.

Senator Carr said relationships between universities in industry based on shared trust, shared goals, and shared respect for each party’s expertise would result in new research, better-focused research, and research that makes a difference in the real world.

Along a similar theme, the MOU between ANU and Melbourne will see greater collaboration between two of the university sector’s research powerhouses, encouraging exchange in areas of mutual interest and benefit to both institutions and enabling the development joint endeavours in research, research training, teaching, scholarship, external funding bids, consulting, and international outreach.

Professor Chubb said the two universities, despite their different histories, had a great deal in common and together would form a formidable alliance in advancing the cause of research and learning in Australia.

“This agreement not only will benefit our students, whose educational opportunities will be enhanced, our staff, who can look forward to further research collaborations with Melbourne, but the nation will benefit through the appropriate development of research links between our two universities,” Professor Chubb said.

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