Institution to Institution Strategic Partnerships



		Talented Researchers Exchange Programme


		Policy dialogue


		Strategic Partnerships Proposal Writing Workshops


		Institution to Institution Strategic Partnerships


		Leadership Programme


		Higher Education Links Programme


		International Health Links Funding Scheme


		Revisiting History in Chitral

	Institution to Institution Strategic Partnerships

List of the 26 Partnerships between UK and Pakistani Universities under the British Council’s INSPIRE Programme

The INSPIRE Institution to Institution Strategic Partnerships are networked at an institution to institution level. They are aimed at internationalization of the institutions, capacity building, research and building effective and sustainable impact. Currently, 26 partnerships are running successfully across Pakistan, under two rounds of Strategic Partnerships, operating across the macro level and including sector bodies, government policy makers and institution levels. HE sectors in Pakistan and UK have shown great interest.

In 2010, British Council Pakistan and Higher Education Commission of Pakistan entered into a new agreement for a joint programme of New Strategic Partnerships to be launched for three years. Under this agreement, Higher Education Commission of Pakistan is providing funding to Pakistani partner and British Council is providing funding to the UK partner. This round resulted in 17 partnerships covering a wide variety of subject areas.

SP No.	UK Partner	Pakistan Partner	Project
SP 15	Newcastle University	University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore	Development of water scarcity management strategies in the Upper Indus Basin
SP 19	London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine	COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad	Tracking diarrhoea-causing bacteria in Pakistan
SP 39	University of Liverpool	Rawalpindi Medical College	Promotion of early childhood development and the psychosocial well-being of Pakistani children
SP 41	University of Belfast	University of Karachi	Restoration of the native oyster of Pakistan
SP 53	University of London	National Health Research Complex, Lahore	Developing local screening systems to detect congenital hypothyroidism in newborn
SP 54	University of Bradford	Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi	Training and educating women parliamentarians
SP 55	University of Manchester	COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad	Analysing the cause of hydrocephalus in newborns
SP 69	University of Southampton	NUST, Islamabad	Developing water turbines for electric power generation
SP 75	University of Birmingham	Aga Khan University, Karachi	Studying the biological and clinical importance of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection
SP 77	University of Leicester	Hazara University, Mansehra	Archaeological investigations and their link to heritage in Chitral
SP 160	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine	University of Peshawar	Assessment of cutaneous leishmaniasis, a skin disease, in KPK
SP 166	University of Bolton	Textile Institute of Pakistan, Karachi	Use of geosynthetic materials technology for provision of clean well water
SP 174	Newcastle University	Govt. College University, Faisalabad	Monitoring Indus River pollution using fish as a bio-indicator
SP 178	University of Aberdeen	University of Vet and Animal Sciences, Lahore	Impact of environmental pollutants on fish and fisheries in Punjab
SP 190	University of Liverpool	University of Health Sciences, Lahore	Developing best practice in learning and teaching of Medical Education
SP 192	Oxford University	NUST, Islamabad	Wastewater reclamation at bench scale using advanced biological treatment technologies
SP 195	University of Central Lancashire	Beaconhouse National University, Lahore	Lancashire to Lahore: Exchanges to develop cultural understanding
SP 196	University of Essex	University of Sindh, Jamshoro	Development of bioinformatics research, teaching and infrastructure
SP 216	Roehampton University	Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi	Treating and preventing anxiety among adolescents in Pakistan
SP 221	University of London	Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan	Women empowerment and the crisis of good governance in Pakistan
SP 225	Cambridge University	Air University, Islamabad	Increasing the efficiency of wind energy systems
SP 227	University of Southampton	Institute of Management Sciences, Peshawar	Supporting SMEs in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
SP 247	University of Nottingham	Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro	Building indigenous capabilities for Thar coal development
SP 254	University of Leeds	Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences Mehran University, Jamshoro, University of Punjab, Lahore Islamic International University, Islamabad	Co-combustion of Pakistani coal and biomass in pilot scale combustors
SP 266	University of Bradford	Mirpur University of Science and Technology (MUST) and University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir	The Bradford/Mirpur connection and the global citizenship of its young people
SP 271	University of Sussex	Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad	Migration, education and development