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India,
France sign agreements in education sector
Monday December 06, 2010 07:37:00 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
India and France Monday signed two memoranda of understanding
(MoUs) in the field of education, focussing on academic
collaboration and research.
Under the first MoU, between France's Institute de Recherche pour
le Developpement (IRD) and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,
a joint laboratory for water sciences would be established in
India.
Called Indo-French Cell for Water Sciences (IFCWS), or Cellule
Franco-Indienne de Recherche en Sciences de l'Eau (CEFIRSE), the
lab would focus on research, training and foreign collaborations.
The second agreement was signed between ParisTech and seven Indian
Institutes of Technology (Kharagpur, Bombay, Madras, Kanpur,
Delhi, Guwahati and Roorkee).
The MoU will focus on student exchanges, research collaborations
and other academic exchange programmes.
It also provides for IITs and ParisTech to participate jointly
various European Commission initiatives.
The two countries also finalised a draft MoU to be signed between
IIT-Rajasthan and France in areas of renewable energy, aerospace
and mechanical engineering, among others.
The agreements are among the several signed between the two
countries during French President Nicolas Sarkozy's current India
visit, including a $9.3 billion deal to set up two nuclear
reactors in Maharashtra and a pact to upgrade Mirage 2000 fighter
aircrafts.
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