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VU has research partners around the world.

In 2011 it strengthened partnerships in China, Brazil and Malaysia.

A new social computing and e-health laboratory opened in Beijing as a collaboration with the Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to provide cross-disciplinary research in information science, health and social computing.

VU introduced research SEED funding program to support collaborative research in applied economics, accounting, tourism, sports management, information technology and logistics at China ’ s Central University of Finance and Economics, and the Beijing Jiaotong University.

VU developed a research partnership with Brazilian researchers and conducted a sports science research symposium that attracted sports science researchers from Brazil and Australia, including senior researchers from the Brazilian Olympic Committee.

VU also developed a research partnership with the University of Malaya in sports science and biomedical disciplines.