The United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) has announced ‎the funding of six joint research projects between researchers ‎from the UAEU and researchers from the Chinese Academy of ‎Sciences. This research cooperation comes within the UAEU ‎endeavor to strengthen international partnerships and activate the ‎Memorandum of Understanding signed on February 4, 2021‎‏.‏

Prof. Ahmed Ali Murad, Associate Provost for Research, ‎confirmed that the signing of the Memorandum of ‎Understanding with the Chinese Academy of Sciences comes in ‎line with the university s strategy that seeks to create distinct ‎and strong relations with various higher education institutions ‎from inside and outside the country. This cooperation will ‎enhance the commitment of both parties to enrich the quality of ‎academic research through distinguished contributions. He ‎added, "Investing in academic research and international ‎partnerships with major research institutions and universities is ‎fundamental to achieve the sustainability of research production ‎and enhance the university's international position, especially, ‎the funded research projects are related to water resources, ‎mobility, environment and wildlife, camel milk products, ‎energy, big data, and health. ‎

He pointed out that the UAEU is funding two research projects ‎with Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, the Chinese ‎Academy of Sciences for a period of three years, the first ‎entitled "Smart Farm: All-In-One Bioinspired Leaves for Water ‎and Energy Harvesting", and the second entitled "Predictive ‎Modelling of Road Deterioration Networks".‎

Prof. Ahmed Murad added that a research project between the ‎university and the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry ‎entitled "Detection and determination of carbamate pesticides ‎and related metabolites in camel milk products of UAE" has also ‎been funded, and the duration of the project is four years. ‎Meanwhile, a research project with the Institute of Zoology, the ‎Chinese Academy of Sciences was funded, which is entitled ‎‎ Population genomic approach to guide the conservation of ‎commercially important fish in the Arabian Gulf and beyond , ‎and the duration of the project is four years. He also said that a ‎research project was funded with the Dalian Institute of ‎Chemical Physics that is entitled Toward high efficiency and ‎large-scale production of flexible perovskite solar cells" and the ‎duration of the project is four years.   In addition to a research ‎project on Real-time adaptive brachytherapy treatment planning ‎system based on multi-modality image guidance for cervical ‎cancer " and the duration is two years."‎