[ Guardian-UK] Anthea Lipsett and Jessica Shepherd - British academics will be encouraged to conduct research with their Israeli peers as Prime Minister Gordon Brown signed a £740,000 academic exchange scheme during his trip to Israel on Monday. The Britain-Israel research and academic exchange partnership (BIRAX) will award scientific research grants to junior academics - from postdoctoral students to mid-career researchers and lecturers. The government is keen to promote links between the two countries to play down attempts by British academics to boycott Israeli academics.
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