The agreement will meanNottingham will join forces with Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta (UMS) to train some of their best and brightest post-graduate engineers.

The partnership will establish integrated Masters and PhD programmes in materials design, studied in both countries.

Students will start a masters programme at UMS and after one year will transfer on to a PhD programme in Nottingham.

In the longer term it is hoped they can also work together on research into transport and infrastructure.”