Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for academic cooperation.
JNU signed an MoU with ICMR for collaboration in education and research. (Image: Twitter/mamidala90)
The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) signed an MoU with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Monday for institutional collaboration in education and research.
The collaboration will provide the two institutions access to each other’s libraries and central research facilities to intensify joint research projects and other related academic activities.
JNU vice-chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar said the main objectives of the memorandum of understanding (MoU) were to promote and enhance interactions and collaborations between the faculty, staff and students of the university with the ICMR institutions through visits and exchange programmes, joint academic and research programmes.
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The MoU was aimed at enhancing technological collaboration in the areas of national interest, the university said. With this cooperation, the focus will be on faculty and student exchange programmes, so that the opportunities for interaction among the members of the faculty and students between the schools and centres of the JNU and the ICMR institutions as well as creating visiting or adjunct faculty positions and short visits are increased.
IITD and JNU will support jointly-supervised PhD students through the School of Interdisciplinary Research (SIRe) at IIT Delhi. These students can be supported through funding from outside agencies obtained through IITD and / or JNU.
The two Institutions will also let their faculty and students use each other’s research facilities. JNU has Advanced Instrumentation Research Facility (AIRF) and IITD has Central Research Facilities (CRF).
Similarly, two workshops will be organised per academic year (one in IITD and one in JNU). The host institutions will contribute/ raise resources for the workshop.
Kumar emphasised on priorities to undertake joint research projects in the areas of bioinformatics, genomics, medical health economics, chemoinformatics, drug discovery, science policy, social medicine and community health etc. He also said the possibilities of establishing a joint research centre would be explored for long-term collaborations.
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