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The University of Bristol has received two international accolades for its innovative research. Bristol was selected from 200 universities worldwide to receive two 2008 HP Labs Innovation Research Awards, which fund research between academic institutions and HP Labs to generate breakthroughs in information technology.

The Open University has launched its own YouTube channel, OUView. The channel features more than 300 educational videos from well-known contributors including David Attenborough and James Dyson.

Plans for a £2 billion partnership to create the largest biomedical research organisation in Europe were unveiled by four NHS hospitals and University College London last night.

A new Euro-Mediterranean University has been launched with courses that will focus on issues of importance to European, African and Levantine countries bordering the sea.

A £9.84 million five-year project to safeguard UK research journals and allow easier access to them for academics was recently announced by the HEFCE. The project is being led by Imperial College London and follows a successful 18-month pilot.

Loughborough University has been ranked as the number one university to study sport by the British Universities Sports Association (Busa), ahead of Bath and Birmingham.

The University of Leeds has embarked on a programme to improve waste management and recycling as a key environmental objective.
In 2003, it cost the university more than £100,000 to dispose of its 1,625 tonnes of waste, of which just 17 per cent was recycled.

As part of HEFCE's employer engagement strategy, the Universities of Teesside, Staffordshire and Cumbria, and Worcester College of Technology are developing new relationships with employers to support business growth and employee development, supported by more than £8 million of HEFCE funding.

The University of Sussex has launched an online campus on the website Second Life.

The 3D internet 'island', developed by Sussex graduate members of the University's web team, has been designed to look like the real University of Sussex campus and will be used by the university for teaching and marketing.

Dr Kelsall
A consortium of researchers from the universities of Leeds, Warwick, Southampton, St. Andrews and Surrey have been awarded more than £5 million from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, as part of a drive to revolutionise the global micro-electronics industry.