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Activities between the University of British Columbia and Exeter include a joint research symposium focused on Community, Culture, Creativity, and Wellbeing held at Exeter in May 2018 and a faculty-led, co-funded initiatives in Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Climate Change and Digital Humanities.

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The University of Exeter and Tsinghua University have launched a jointly-awarded PhD degree programme in climate and environmental sciences which supports six students to be co-supervised between Tsinghua's Department of Earth System Science and Colleges at Exeter that conduct research on earth systems and environmental sciences.

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Our strategic partnership with the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has established the Environmental Sustainability and Resilience (ENSURE) Joint Centre, supporting impactful research collaborations that address key SDGs and global climate challenges.

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Exeter & Paris-Saclay collaboratively deliver a series of double PhD degree projects. The universities offer joint funding to provide tuition, living, travel and research costs, and the opportunity to obtain two PhD awards from both Exeter and Paris-Saclay.

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To celebrate, and further extend, the strong relationship of staff within the University of Exeter and the University of Geneva, the two universities have launched a new seed fund to support developing research links.

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The University of Exeter and The University of Queensland have partnered to establish the QUEX Institute, a new multi-million pound partnership designed to bolster their joint global research impact.

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The University of Exeter has extended its partnership with Duke University through a new collaborative agreement to work together to tackle some of the most pressing global challenges. These are Investing in Health; Sustainability and the Environment; Public Policy and Global Security; Digital Worlds – Approaches to Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Computational Social Sciences.

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Centre for Environmental Intelligence

At the University of Exeter we are leading the way to a sustainable future through application of data science and artificial intelligence (AI) to urgent environmental and sustainability challenges.

Harnessing this ‘Environmental Intelligence’, in partnership with organisations across different sectors from industry to government, the Centre for Environmental Intelligence is providing meaningful insights that inform decision-making, improve risk management, and enable the development of new technological solutions, whilst considering their social and ethical implications.

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Environmental Intelligence themes

Our expertise and activities align with one or more of our Environmental Intelligence research themes and application areas.

EI for carbon, weather and climate

From carbon cycle, weather & climate models and forecasting to social & environmental tipping points, extreme weather-natural events and global systems thinking.

EI for energy, decarbonisation and urban sustainability

From built environment, smart cities, energy systems and renewables to circular economy, clean mobility, sustainable transport systems, and resilient infrastructure

EI for ecosystems, sustainable agriculture and biodiversity

From sustainable food systems, land-water use and conservation to nature-based solutions, biodiversity monitoring, rural policy and marine management.

EI for environmental transformation

From net-zero transition, business ECG commitments, climate / extreme weather mitigation, and food and energy systems, to biodiversity renewal, land use, flood prevention, pollution and supply chain resilience

Research

Bringing together Exeter’s world-leading environment and sustainability research with expertise from data science / AI and the social sciences to deliver translational EI research

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Utilising EI to help partner organisations meet their goals, keep pace with advances in data science and AI and have a positive impact on the planet and society.

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Gain valuable skills at the cutting edge of environmental data science and AI though our postgraduate and professional education training opportunities

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16 July 2025	Environmental Intelligence for Biodiversity and Nature Recovery Symposium	Roadford Lake	Add event
29 July 2025	Social and Computer Science: Interdisciplinary Conversations on AI	TBC	Add event