Collaborative partnerships with universities, governments, and industry in Europe

At Microsoft Research in Cambridge, our focus is to extend our scope into important new areas outside "core" computer science. This is being achieved through new types of strategic public-private collaborative research partnerships with universities, governments, and industry partners.
Highlights
Dr. Peer Bork is the 2009 winner of a Microsoft Award for his research on the relations between the nature of the human microbiome and various parameters such as age, ethnic background, disease status, nutrition habits, and individual genetic components. Read more…
Microsoft Research and the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences agree to create a joint research centre in Moscow. Read more...
Academic and Research Awards
We support outstanding research in computer science and the scientific disciplines through several funding opportunities and awards. Read more…
Institutes and Partnerships
- Research Partnership Programme
We facilitate collaboration in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa regions among MSR and Microsoft teams to ensure that research experience and innovative academic thinking are embraced in ground-breaking projects with industry and academia. Read more… - Collaborative Institutes
We collaborate with universities, industry, and governments throughout the region to support basic academic research to advance the state of the art in computing and computational sciences. Read more...
Funded Research Projects
- Collaborative Research Projects in Europe
- Microsoft Research INRIA Joint Centre
- Microsoft Research – University of Trento Centre for Computational and Systems Biology
- BSC – Microsoft Research Centre at Barcelona Supercomputing Centre
Learn more about collaborative research projects at Microsoft Research...



