Our Global Engagement Identity

UEA's identity as a world-leading university is founded upon the international scale and relevance of our research. This research culture evolved from a heritage of interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches, which adapt to face contemporary and global issues. Through our commitment to equitable and sustainable partnerships, we aspire to deliver opportunities and solutions for a changing world. We are committed to developing and promoting forms of research cooperation that bring people, disciplines, ideas, subject-areas, and stakeholders together in a meaningful and inspiring way.

In all areas of our activity, there is a need to better understand and promote our place in the world. UEA's programme of global engagement prioritises this. Our Dialogue Groups focus on five specific regional areas with active partnerships in these regions, delivering joint taught programmes and PhDs, student and staff mobility, research, and summer programmes. UEA is active across the globe through an extensive programme of international development, our work through Norwich Research Park, the Sainsbury Centre, and an extensive network of research and consultancy links.

Opportunity

We equip our students with the skills to succeed in a competitive global environment. UEA provides a range of opportunities to engage with global issues in the classroom and through symposiums, lectures and workshops. Our students study and work abroad, through exchange partnerships with over 200 universities around the world. We fully support the Universities UK International ambition to increase the UK's outbound student mobility. UEA is an active global player, seeking initiatives to support international initiatives. We are a 'University of Sanctuary', offering scholarships and short courses for refugees settling in our home county of Norfolk. We also provide outreach programmes across the globe, taking UK higher education to local schools. Our on-campus international students are involved in local outreach programmes through volunteering schemes and initiatives such as 'Global Voices', whereby students visit local schools to support school children. We have also been engaged in the Universities UK International UK-Ukraine initiative since its inception in 2022, which sees academics from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University (PNU) in Ukraine join forces to research, amongst other things, the effects of warfare on water and soil – a legacy of warfare which is often overlooked. Find out more about current activity below.

Our Place

In all areas of our activity, there is a need to better understand and promote our place in the world, and UEA's programme of global engagement prioritises this. Our active Dialogue Groups focus on five specific regional areas, and we have partnerships in these regions, which deliver joint taught programmes and PhDs, student and staff mobility, research, and summer programmes. Through our extensive programme of international development, the work of the Norwich Research Park, the Sainsbury Centre, and an extensive network of research and consultancy links, UEA is active in many parts of the globe. If you are interested in opportunities to partner with UEA, please contact us.

Our Engagement with
the Aurora European Universities Alliance 

UEA is one of the founding members of the Aurora European Universities Network, established in 2016 to develop on key themes and common interests with enough enthusiasm at the grass root level to learn with and from each other. The strength lies in the quality and relevance of its projects.

Our Global Partnerships