{"id":700,"date":"2023-02-15T10:21:59","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T10:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/?p=700"},"modified":"2025-05-19T12:41:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T11:41:31","slug":"3i-university-network-funding-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/2023\/02\/15\/3i-university-network-funding-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"3i University Network funds 6 Kent projects to strengthen cross-border collaborations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.3iuni.eu\/en\/home\">Interregional Internationalisation Initiative (3i) University Network<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 a collaboration between Kent and three other Universities \u2013 has awarded over \u20ac50,000\u00a0 to fund six projects that will strengthen cross-border collaborations, and hopefully lead to larger grants for joint projects.<\/p>\n<p>Tackling a range of challenges such as seaweed as a food source, arts and humanities as a source for health and well-being and coastal protection, the projects involve external partners and foster societal impact.<\/p>\n<p>Hannah McNorton, Head of International Partnerships says: \u2018This round of funding demonstrates Kent\u2019s continued commitment to our nearest partners and the ambition we have in nurturing and extending these links. We are excited about how this investment responds to shared challenges and will benefit the population, businesses and other organisations in their respective regions.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Created to bring together universities, regional governments, the private sector and society to work on challenges common to Flanders, Kent and the Hauts-de-France, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3iuni.eu\/en\/home\">3i Network<\/a>\u00a0is made up of four universities in the English Channel and North Sea area \u2013 the\u00a0University of Kent,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ugent.be\/en\">Universiteit Gent<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kuleuven.be\/lang\/fr\">KU Leuven<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.univ-lille.fr\/\">Universit\u00e9 de Lille<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The projects and Kent academics that received funding are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>s3iweed- Seaweed as sustainable source for healthy foods. Rowena Merrit, Centre for Health Services Studies<\/p>\n<p>HUMAIN \u2013 Humanities and Inclusion. Juliette Pattinson, Division of Arts and Humanities<\/p>\n<p>DuneFront \u2013 Dune-Dike hybrid nature based solutions: frontiers in climate change adaptation . Zoe Davies, School of Anthropology &amp; Conservation<\/p>\n<p>IMPACT \u2013 Interaction in the Medical world: Pragmatic Analysis of Child-Centered Talk. \u00a0Vikki Janke, Modern Languages and Linguistics<\/p>\n<p>C2H2N \u2013 Cross-Channel Health Humanities Network. Dieter Declerq, Division of Arts and Humanities<\/p>\n<p>CChESMate-2p- Climate Change and Energy Solutions through Materials Science: towards projects. Paul Saines and Maria Alfredsson, School of Chemistry and Forensic Science<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can find out more about the projects\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.3iuni.eu\/fileadmin\/user_upload\/3iuni\/documents\/3i_University_Network_-_Call_for_collaborative_projects_-_Results.pdf\">here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Interregional Internationalisation Initiative (3i) University Network\u00a0\u2013 a collaboration between Kent and three other Universities \u2013 has awarded over \u20ac50,000\u00a0 to fund six projects that will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/2023\/02\/15\/3i-university-network-funding-awards\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74795,"featured_media":701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[282613,13897,9112,282603,256079,256068],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1377,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions\/1377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}