The aim of the Oxford/Berlin Research Partnership is to grow into a joint platform that links the stunning range of bottom-up initiatives and helps to identify shared Priority Areas and Grand Challenges in addition to the two current BUA Grand Challenges, which are social cohesion and global health. The list below reflects the ongoing academic discussions within the Partnership, and we want to stress the potential for interdisciplinary and crossdisciplinary work to forge new connections between these fields.
MedSci
Vaccines and immunology
Cardiovascular medicine
Repair and regenerative paediatrics and developmental medicine
Neuroscience
Digital health
STEM
AI and digital transformation
Quantum computing
Reproducible science
Sustainable life and processes (including urban living)
Humanities
Understanding the human past
Global futures: performance, language, art
Diversity and intercultural communication
Environment and global shared spaces
Social Sciences
Democratic resilience
Conflict, peace and security
Inequalities and the political economy of inequality
The changing faces of governance
