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Adelaide University hosts the Australian-French International Research Laboratory (IRL) for Humans-Autonomous Agents Teaming (CROSSING), an initiative spanning artificial intelligence, autonomy, human factors, and psychology. CROSSING is a partnership between the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Adelaide University, Flinders University, IMT Atlantique, and Naval Group. Research at CROSSING directly contributes to the development of hi-tech industries such as space, manufacturing, and mining.

Adelaide University is part of an international consortium that received more than AUD$350,000 from FACET to research more resilient, data-driven electricity grids. Working with Université Grenoble Alpes, industry partner Schneider Electric, France’s National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), CEA France (Alternative Energies and Atomic Energies Commission) and Australia’s CSIRO, the project focuses on human-centred AI and machine learning to improve the modelling of energy consumption and grid stability as renewable energy sources increase. 

Adelaide University’s Ehrenberg-Bass Institute is the world’s largest centre for marketing research. The Ehrenberg Bass Institute comprises a team of over 60 marketing scientists who advance marketing knowledge, bust pseudo-science and marketing myths, and teach marketers how marketing really works and how brands grow. The Institute has a strong client base of UK companies, including Castrol, Flora Food Group, and Walker Snacks Ltd.

Adelaide University researchers are collaborating with a number of UK and European international partners at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Optical Microcombs for Breakthrough Science (COMBS). The Centre aims to explore the society-wide transformations that will flow from optical frequency combs - thousands of highly pure light signals precisely spaced across the entire optical spectrum - by leveraging and building upon the latest breakthroughs in physics, materials science and nanofabrication. It expects to generate a wide new base of knowledge in fields such as astronomy, spectroscopy, chemical sensors, and precision measurement. 

Microscopic sensors as thin as a strand of hair capable of taking multiple measurements simultaneously could revolutionise the diagnosis and monitoring of diseases like cancer. Researchers from Adelaide University’s Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing and the University of Stuttgart in Germany worked together to develop the tiny sensors using state of the art, ultrafast 3D micro-printing technology. 

Adelaide University’s Institute for International Trade and the Australian Centre for International Trade and Investment have released an e-book, Australia–EU Trade Relations in the Global Context. The publication brings together expert contributions from Australian and European researchers, who bring unique insights and recommendations on how Australia and the European Union can steer their response to global uncertainty.