Artificial Intelligence is changing in the Creative Industries from creation and production, protection, distribution, to consumption. The Music Industry is a leading example of a Creative Industry sector embracing AI, and its use of AI impacts and foreshadows other Creative Industries, providing a vibrant and rich ecosystem in which to examine the use and implications of AI. The size of the global Music Industry and the substantially different landscapes of digital music, AI, and culture between the UK and China provide significant opportunities for interdisciplinary long term collaboration building on each countries' different yet complementary strengths. Two research-industry workshops will be held in London, UK, and Shanghai, China, to examine the increasing role and potential of AI for music in the Music Industry and the Creative Industries in China and the UK. The workshops will build partnerships leading directly to the development of future substantial collaborations between the UK and China in AI and music in the Creative Industries. To achieve this the workshops will map the current landscape of AI for music in the Creative Industries of UK and China, and examine questions including: - What can be learnt from AI for music across Creative Industries; - How data might be shared across sectors, countries, and cultures; - How IP and business models are affected by AI; - What skills are needed for AI in Creative Industries; - How the impact of AI on Creative Industries might be measured.

Over the past 20 years tsunamis from submarine landslides, such as slumps and blocks, have become better understood from international collaborations between geologists and numerical modelers. Tsunamis from large volume translational submarine landslides such as Storegga and Grand Banks are less well understood because their complex internal deformations, on failing, are challenging to model and understand in the context of tsunami generation. The objective of this proposal, therefore, is to bring together geologists with expertise in submarine landslide tsunamis and numerical modelers who research subaerial granular sediment flows in a new marine context through an international collaboration which will lead to a better understanding of the physics of submarine translational sediment movement in the generation of tsunamis. These submarine landslide tsunamis are a hazard to both the UK (e.g. the North Sea) and China (in the South China Sea). To address their complex mechanisms the project aims to establish new partnerships between UK researchers from the British Geological Survey and the University of Edinburgh and Chinese researchers from Tongji University. Our vision is to radically improve model predictability and applicability through fusing critical mechanisms at the particle, continuum and field scales, enabled by transdisciplinary collaborations.

Today, many advanced countries are positioning themselves to have Sustainable Development (SD) at the heart of their developmental policies. Applying SD principals to a large community or perhaps a city is to be commended. In China, the development of such a city is becoming a reality and an integrated master planning for the world's first sustainable city / Dongtan - was launched recently. Dongtan is situated on Chongming Island, the third largest island in China, near Shanghai at the mouth of the Yangtze River. The island currently consists of a large area of mostly agricultural land. The Shanghai Municipal Government is planning to turn Chongming Island into an eco-island, and Dongtan as a model eco-friendly area. At three quarters the size of Manhattan, Dongtan will be developed on 630 hectares of land as a sustainable city to attract a range of commercial and leisure investments. A programme to develop such a sustainable city presents an unsurpassed opportunity to study and capture all aspects of the development including: the consultation, planning and design stages and the implementation phases of such a project. A recent workshop (Nov 2006) organised by EPSRC, Arup and their Chinese partners has resulted in the formation of specific networks that aim to begin research studies, information capture processes and establish appropriate research programmes that will achieve the most sustainable approaches for the Dongtan eco city development. The three networks which aim to learn from the Dongtan experience, allow and facilitate knowledge networking between Chinese and UK collaborators are as follows: (a) City History and Multi-scale Spatial Master-planning, (b) Network to Investigate Sustainable Economic and Ecological models of Peripheral Urban and (c) Sustainable Urban Systems to Transfer Achievable Implementation Network Resources and Infrastructure Systems Development. In addition to the networks, the workshop also established a Coordination Framework which is independent of the four networks. The main purpose of the coordinating framework is to draw and tie the identified networks together. This proposal deals mainly with the establishment of the coordinating framework group , the objectives and activities of the framework and its funding profile.

The project BBChina aims to establish a Master Course fully devoted to the whole bioenergy and biochemicals chain in three Partner Countries HEIs of China. The Master Program “From the Field to Bioenergy, Biofuel and Biochemicals” will be a common and advanced interdisciplinary Master program where the complex biomass chain is deeply analysed until the output of the biorefinery, to the bioenergy production, to the biofuel utilisation as well as to the integration with other Renewable Energy Sources.The Six universities involved, 3 of them from Europe and 3 from China, with their team of experts, will cooperate to develop and promote the Master, specifically targeted to Chinese students and teachers, with the aim to define an ad hoc curriculum.The project will establish an International Advisory Board, where representatives from professional and scientific sectors of China and Europe will be invited to support decisions, dissemination actions and to assess the developed syllabus and course curriculum. About 18 academic members per each Chinese HEI will travel to Europe for a ten days study and training tour in order to share experience and knowledge, improve their competencies and skills in the sector, as well as learn state-of-the-art new teaching methodologies.Each PC HEI will select and enrol at least 15 students that will take part to the first edition of the Master Programme. The students of the first edition will take part to 14 days of Mobility in Europe.Further 45 students will be enrolled, within the project running, for the second edition of the course. New lab equipment will be acquired in order to set up premises fit to the new course’s needs. Training activities will be held to trigger and encourage students towards young entrepreneurship and innovation. A devoted e-learning platform will be developed in English to support students, both providing teaching and training materials and tools, and promoting discussion and dissemination forums.

Today, many advanced countries are positioning themselves to have Sustainable Development (SD) at the heart of their developmental policies. Applying SD principals to a large community or perhaps a city is to be commended. In China, the development of such a city is becoming a reality and an integrated master planning for the world's first sustainable city / Dongtan - was launched recently. Dongtan is situated on Chongming Island, the third largest island in China, near Shanghai at the mouth of the Yangtze River. The island currently consists of a large area of mostly agricultural land. The Shanghai Municipal Government is planning to turn Chongming Island into an eco-island, and Dongtan as a model eco-friendly area. At three quarters the size of Manhattan, Dongtan will be developed on 630 hectares of land as a sustainable city to attract a range of commercial and leisure investments. A programme to develop such a sustainable city presents an unsurpassed opportunity to study and capture all aspects of the development including: the consultation, planning and design stages and the implementation phases of such a project. A recent workshop (Nov 2006) organised by EPSRC, Arup and their Chinese partners has resulted in the formation of specific networks that aim to begin research studies, information capture processes and establish appropriate research programmes that will achieve the most sustainable approaches for the Dongtan eco city development. The three networks which aim to learn from the Dongtan experience, allow and facilitate knowledge networking between Chinese and UK collaborators are as follows: (a) City History and Multi-scale Spatial Master-planning, (b) Network to Investigate Sustainable Economic and Ecological models of Peripheral Urban and (c) Sustainable Urban Systems to Transfer Achievable Implementation Network Resources and Infrastructure Systems Development. In addition to the networks, the workshop also established a Coordination Framework which is independent of the four networks. The main purpose of the coordinating framework is to draw and tie the identified networks together. This proposal deals mainly with the establishment of the coordinating framework group , the objectives and activities of the framework and its funding profile.