• Scholarship for Space Science and Engineering studies.  Lulea together with five other European Union universities have been successful in establishing an Erasmus Mundus Space Masters program which started its first intake in March 2005.  Monash University has been invited to put forward Masters candidates from either engineering or science (physics) background..  The two years Masters course in Space technology will be supported by scholarships (worth  Euro 20k per year).  For further information see http://www.ltu.se/spacemaster/.  
Currently we have one graduate in the program and two other current students have been offered places for next year's course (starting October 2007).

• The PhD Polis Program got off to an excellent start in September 2005 with four projects, three from Engineering and one from IT.  A fifth project in biomedical engineering has started in March 2006.  Each project has a PhD student enrolled in each university with joint supervision working collaboratively on an area of mutual and complementary interest, capitalising on the expertise of the researchers in both universities.  We were able to secure funding support of $27k from the Europe Steering Group's Strategic Initiatives Allocation for the Monash projects, as well as departmental and faculty support.  For details of the projects see PhD Polis Projects
  
• ProcessIT Project: A/P Kim C Ng and his PhD graduate Dr Matthew Thurley have started collaborative work in a joint project with Lulea and Swedish mining companies LKAB and Boliden using their research results in image processing of rock piles.  The PhD graduate  has had his appointment extended to August 2008.

• Caroline Beijersten, working on Masters thesis with Prof Paul Cally,Centre for Stellar and Planetary Astrophysics, School of Mathematical Sciences

• Godecke Blecken, PhD Polis student working with A/P Anan Deletic.

• Olivia Chan has returned after a very enjoyable and successful period of study and Benjamin Jones, also from the Faculty of Engineering is in the second semester of his studies. An Art and Design student Miss Huishi Liang is also at Lulea this semester.
  

• Vice-Chancellor Professor Pia Sandvik Wiklund, from 28 to 30 March for the signing of CUREA-Co-operative Understanding on Research, Education and Administration between Monash University and  Lulea  University  of Technology

• Sven Molin, from 20 March to 4 April to participate in three important functions:  Monash Exchange Fair (22 MArch), signing of the CUREA (29 March), and the information forum for engineering students (3 April).

Maintained by: A/P Kim Chew Ng