Academic mission and the Centenary Campaign

Students The academic mission part of our campaign is not to be confused with the research income that the College already attracts from charitable sources, where Imperial College has one of the strongest records in the UK higher education sector. Over the decade that our Centenary Campaign runs, we estimate that the work of our academics will attract over £600 million from the charity sector in the form of research funding, in addition to the College’s £207 million philanthropic target.

The Centenary Campaign’s focus on support for our academic direction includes raising funds for centres of excellence and academic Chairs that draw on Imperial’s key interdisciplinary strengths to tackle fundamental problems and find solutions that improve and enrich civilisation.

Making this area a focus for the Centenary Campaign means that our academics, the people at the coal-face of research, can remain in control of our research direction.

In December 2007, the official launch of the Rajiv Gandhi Centre was held in Mumbai. Find out more about launch and the Centre's key aims and objectives.

"Imperial is a size and has a punch that can make initiatives work in ways that affect our everyday lives. We operate on such a scale that when we decide to do something we can move quickly, draw resources together across a whole range of disciplines and make a substantial change.
"For example, our Institute for Mathematical Sciences draws together mathematicians from across the College's departments to work on global issues as diverse as the spread of disease and financial integrity."
Professor Sir Peter Knight, Principal of the Faculty of Natural Sciences

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