India and France sign MoUs in the field of education

Updated on: Wednesday, December 08, 2010

India and France Monday signed two memorandums of understanding (MoUs) in the field of education, focusing on academic collaboration and research.

The French Minister for Higher Education and Research Valerie Pecresse met Human Resource and Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal to go ahead with the process. Both leaders appreciated the increasing cooperation between the two countries in the field of education and scientific research and discussed the need to have more arrangements for cooperation in the field of education and research such as Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Weather prediction, Aerospace engineering, Advanced Mathematics, etc.

Among the two memorandums of understanding (MoU) that were signed was one for setting up an International Joint Laboratory between Institut de Recherch Pour Le Developpement (France) and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

This MoU was signed for setting up a research and training partnership structure in the form of a Joint International Laboratory called Cellule Franco-Indienne de Recherche en Sciences de l'Eau (CEFIRSE) or Indo-French Cell for Water Sciences (IFCWS).

The other MoU that was signed was for the Academic Collaboration between The Indian Institutes of Technology, India and ParisTech - Paris Institute of Science and Technology, Paris, France. This memorandum is between the seven Indian Institutes of Technology (Kharagpur, Bombay, Madras, Kanpur, Delhi, Guwahati and Roorkee) and the nine Institutions under ParisTech namely.

The purpose for signing this MoU is for collaboration in research and education like the promotion of institutional exchanges, student exchanges, organizing symposia, conference, short courses and meetings on research issues, joint research and continuing education programmes along with exchange information pertaining to developments in teaching, student development and research at each institution.

The MoU also provides that IITs and ParisTech may collaborate to participate in the European Commission initiatives such as the Erasmus Mundus, External Cooperation Window by partnering with other interested institutions.

India and France sign MoUs in the field of education

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