WSU Europe Laboratory
Overview
For all WSU colleges and units in any WSU campus, the WSU Europe Laboratory researches, develops, and implements international initiatives within the European continent to contribute to:
- graduating internationally-minded diverse students for leadership in multicultural global societies
- establishing international partnerships to advance knowledge more effectively than allowed by the resources of any single institution
- securing transatlantic funding
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Chief Initiatives Completed to-Date
- Secured nearly $600,000 from NSF – IRES to support WSU students on international research experiences in Germany and Sweden
- Secured over $500,000 from the European Union through the Erasmus+ program to support European as well as WSU students and Faculty on international exchanges with partner universities in Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, and Sweden
- Secured over $88,000 from the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education to support Swedish students on exchange at WSU
- Established transatlantic Plant Sciences research collaboration between WSU’s CAS, CAHNRS and Germany’s prestigious University of Cologne ‘s CEPLAS Cluster of Excellence in Plant Sciences
- Three WSU professors representing CAS and VCEA in Bremerton, Everett, Pullman will be teaching at prestigious Aarhus University in Denmark during the 2023 summer semester
- MoUs negotiated for and signed by WSU and 17 peer universities in Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland
- Reciprocal Student Exchange Agreements negotiated for and signed by WSU and 7 peer universities in Austria, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland
- Established an International Double Master’s Degree Program in Engineering and Computer Science with Switzerland’s Zurich University of Applied Sciences, the only program of its kind in the State of Washington