IIIT Allahabad, Uzbekistan university to collaborate in academic, cultural areas

The official information received by the institute states that Professor Nagabhushan said both institutes agreed to cooperate in academic as well as cultural areas.  

Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, (IIIT-A) and Samarkand State University, Uzbekistan, signed an agreement to join hands in several fields especially in interdisciplinary areas of research and studies. According to the latest update, a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in this regard was signed online by Professor Shirshu Varma, registrar of IIIT-A, and Professor RI Khalmuradov, vice-chancellor of Samarkand University recently. During the signing of the MoU, Professor P Nagabhushan, Director, IIIT-A, and Vijayshree Tiwari, head of the management department of the institute were also present. The official information received by the institute states that Professor Nagabhushan said both institutes agreed to cooperate in academic as well as cultural areas.  

“Both institutions will strive to share their academic knowledge and experiences in order to find solutions to the problems of mutual interest, facilitate the exchange of faculty for purposes of lectures, research, as well as meetings and similar activities,” Professor said. 

Both will also encourage student exchange in available fields, facilitate joint research projects and the organisation of joint seminars, conferences etc in the field of common interest. This MoU will remain valid for four years, he shared. 

According to the MoU, an Indo-Uzbekistan centre of information communication technology (ICT) will be established on the IIIT-A campus, Nagabhushan said. A nine-member task force committee has been constituted for establishing the centre.“Professor Shirshu Varma will be the coordinator while Vijayshri Tewari will be co-coordinator of this mission. Other members include Pritish Varadwaj, Madhvendra Misra, Vrijendra Singh, Suneel Yadav, Utkarsh Goel, Rekha Verma and Anshu Anand,” he added. 

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