Horizon Europe
Horizon Europe is the EU’s key funding programme for research and innovation with a budget of €95.5 billion.
It tackles climate change, helps to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and boosts the EU’s competitiveness and growth.The programme facilitates collaboration and strengthens the impact of research and innovation in developing, supporting and implementing EU policies while tackling global challenges.
EU Horizon supports creating and better dispersing of excellent knowledge and technologies.It creates jobs, fully engages the EU’s talent pool, boosts economic growth, promotes industrial competitiveness and optimises investment impact within a strengthened European Research Area.
The Royal Geographical Society is a UK-based learn learned society and professional body for geography founded in 1830. The Society has been a key associate and supporter of many famous explorers and expeditions, including Charles Darwin, David Livingstone, Ernest Shackleton etc.
The RGS was founded in 1830 under the name Geographical Society of London as an institution to promote the 'advancement of geographical science'. It later absorbed the older African Association, which had been founded by Sir Joseph Banks in 1788, as well as the Raleigh Club and the Palestine Association. In 1995 it merged with the Institute of British Geographers, a body for academic geographers, to become officially the Royal Geographical Society with IBG. Currently RGS-IBG have 28 research groups focusing on all major aspects of nature and human geography.
The members of council and the president are elected from and by its fellows, who are allowed to use the postnominal title FRGS. Memberships are divided into different categories from Student Member, Associate Fellow, Fellow, to Senior Fellow.
Regional Studies Association (RSA)
The Regional Studies Association (RSA) is a learned society concerned with the analysis of regions and regional issues. Through our international membership we provide an authoritative voice of, and network for, academics, students, practitioners, policy makers.
The RSA is a friendly and collegiate hub for researchers in regional studies and science, planners and policymakers. Our members work collaboratively, and the Association actively encourages inclusive practices, equality of opportunities and access and embrace diversity in it many forms.
RSA also publish several major academic journals in the realm of urban geography and urban studies, including Regional Studies, Spatial Economic Analysis; Territory, Politics, Governance (TPG); Regional Studies; Regional Sciences; and Area Development and Policy. It also organise an annual conference in Europe and annual winter conference in London, UK.
CU-Urban Cluster Ltd.
CUUC, established in 2020 at Cambridge, UK and Canton, China is a research-based team with visions of contributing to society. It was first founded to facilitate a UK-based research project on China’s Greater Bay Area.
The missions and visions for CUUC are:
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Research, Teaching & Learning: Facilitate research-informed teaching and learning in interdisciplinary social sciences
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Community Support & Networking Opportunity: Strengthen a globalized peer-supporting and mentoring network for undergraduate and postgraduate students, creating opportunities for their career development
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Culture & Knowledge Exchange: Enhance culture exchange between UK, China and beyond; building innovative channel for knowledge exchanges between junior and senior scholars, academics and industry
The Cambridge Chinese Migration Studies Group (CCMSG) is an interdisciplinary independent research and discussion group co-organised by the Centre for the Studies of Global Human Movement at University of Cambridge, Cambridge Migration Studies Society as well as the University of Oxford’s Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS). The target of this group is to provide a platform for open-discussion and an intellectual community for mutual support. Since establishment on November 2019, the CCMSG had organised a series of seminars, discussions, and sharing, with participants from all around the globe. The CCMSG had boosted research communication and collaborations specifically in the frontiers of migration studies, human mobility studies, regional development studies, and urban studies, attaining a wide influence on Chinese mobility-related academic research and practice in the Great China Region and aboard.
