Joint Seed Funding awards

2023 awarded projects 

'Collaborative Hub for Cultural Heritage – CH2’

  • Prof. Laura Moretti (St Andrews PI), School of Art History
  • Prof. Monica Salvadori (Padua PI), Department of Cultural Heritage

'Beyond ChatGPT: Best-practice sharing of innovative assessment between the United Kingdom and Italian higher education systems’

  • Dr Luca Savorelli (St Andrews PI), Business School 
  • Prof. Andrea Menini (Padua PI), Department of Economics and Management

'The ethics of thermonuclear fusion – a better energy future?'

  • Dr Emilka Skrzypek (St Andrews PI), School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies 
  • Prof. Piero Martin (Padua PI), Department of Physics and Astronomy

'Next Generation Path Panning Systems for Autonomous Vehicles'

  • Dr Blesson Varghese (St Andrews PI), School of Computer Science 
  • Dr Federico Corò (Padua PI), Department of Mathematics

2022 awarded projects 

‘Unveiling the Recycling Potential of Pharmaceutical Glass by Alkali Activation [UnPhAct]’

  • Prof. Sharon Ashbrook (St Andrews PI), School of Chemistry 
  • Dr Enrico Bernardo (Padua PI), Department of Industrial Engineering

‘Legal Knowledge: Transmission, Translation, Migration (12th -18th Century)’ 

  • Prof. John Hudson (St Andrews PI), School of History
  • Prof. Stefania Gialdroni (Padua PI), Department of Private Law and Critique of Law

‘Light Induced Dipolar Spectroscopy at High Field with EPR’

  • Dr Janet Lovett (St Andrews PI), School of Physics and Astronomy
  • Dr Marilena Di Valentin (Padua PI), , Department of Chemical Sciences

‘Why do animals choose their mates?’

  • Dr David Shuker (St Andrews PI), School of Biology
  • Prof. Gil Guastoni Rosenthal (Padua PI), Department of Biology