The University of Edinburgh and the University of Regina today signed a memorandum of understanding establishing up to three annual $10,000 (CAD) master’s degree scholarships for the study of carbon capture and storage. The scholarships will be funded with support from Saskatchewan utility SaskPower, developer of Boundary Dam Unit 3, the world’s first large-scale CCS system on a coal-fired power plant. Scholarship recipients will be accepted as visiting graduates at the University of Regina after completing two semesters in the University of Edinburgh’s CCS master’s program.
“This agreement is an exciting step toward building international capacity in CCS, and we are thrilled to be able to share our knowledge with University of Edinburgh students as we welcome them to our hub in CCS. Working together we have the potential to provide real solutions to climate change around the world,” David Malloy, vice president of research at the University of Regina, said in a press release.
