Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine
Budget
€1,558,385,400
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
2
0.5 FTE
EU Grants
None
Mission & Goals
Imperial College London is a world leading university for science, technology, engineering, medicine and business and is known for its application of these skills to industry and enterprise -- with a focus on doing science for humanity. Imperial is an international community with undergraduates coming from 145 countries, and our researchers collaborate with partners in over 190 countries. This international engagement plays a significant role in our research excellence, with the most recent UK Research Excellence Framework noting that Imperial is home to the greatest concentration of high-impact research of any major UK university. We have over 23,000 students in undergraduate and postgraduate studies across our four faculties in 28 departments, and over 8,000 staff. Over 9,500 degrees are awarded by Imperial College London every year. Our primary areas of activity are education, research and entrepreneurship.
EU Legislative Interests
Imperial College London has a number of institutional strategic research strategies which engage researchers and staff across the College. We have met and would like to continue to meet with EU officials to discuss the UK's association to Horizon Europe and the role of research-intensive universities like Imperial in driving research and innovation in collaboration with European partners. Institutional strategic priorities and EU policies or proposals of interest include the following: Imperial's Transition to Zero Pollution initiative (EU policies targeted include European Green Deal, and Improving the design of the EU electricity market COM(2023) 148 of 14.3.2023, procedure ref.: 2023/0077(COD).); Imperial's Global Development Hub (EU policies targeted include EU Green Deal, Establishing a European Union Recovery Instrument to support the recovery in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic COM/2020/441 final/2); and Imperial's I-X initiative on AI and data science (EU policies targeted include: Artificial intelligence act COM(2021) 206 of 21.04.2021, procedure ref.: 2021/0106 (COD).
Communication Activities
We have organised in-person meetings in Brussels with various EU ambassadors and other officials, organised alumni and other events in various European locations inviting EU officials to join; published publications on Imperial College London and the ERC as well as showcasing collaborative EU-funded research (see https://www.imperial.ac.uk/about/introducing-imperial/global-imperial/europe/erc10/), and we have organised op-eds and other stories (eg Financial Times, Science Business) with our European partners to highlight important research and innovation work and policies and to express a desired policy position to facilitate world-leading research collaboration.
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
League of European Research Universities (LERU) https://www.leru.org/ Russell Group https://russellgroup.ac.uk/about/our-universities/ European University Association (EUA) https://eua.eu/
Organisation Members
Forthcoming
Additional Information
Full finance report can be found online at https://www.imperial.ac.uk/finance/annual-report/financial-summary/
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.