IIT Roorkee, University of Potsdam to accelerate partnership in higher education, research

IIT Roorkee and the University of Potsdam agreed to consider each other as key partners and establish a virtual foci centre for enhancing mutual partnership.

IIT Roorkee (IITR) delegation, led by Director Prof KK Pant, visited the University of Potsdam in Germany to discuss and accelerate their partnership in higher education, research, and collaborations. The visit was made possible through the invitation of Professor Oliver Günther, President of University of Potsdam, and facilitated by IITR's International Relations office and an international Indo-German Cooperation project. 

The IITR delegation consisted of Director Prof KK Pant; Dean International Relations, Prof Vimal Chandra Srivastava; Prof P Arumugam (Physics); Prof Ankit Agarwal (hydrology, lead project investigation of Indo-German Project); and International Relation Office representatives, Ravikant Ranjan and Ravi Kumar. 

IITR Director KK Pant proposed to host faculty members from University of Potsdam under various programs at different levels, open to both young and experienced faculty members. Both institutions agreed to exchange young professors and scientists to share knowledge and research experience, even participating in teaching at the partner institute. They also discussed their cooperation in hydrology, climatology, and disaster management among others and how to diversify and expand collaboration further. 

Based on their cooperation, joint projects, joint publication records, and regular student and faculty mobility, University of Potsdam and IITR agreed to consider each other as key partners and establish a virtual foci centre. This will help in securing better administrative support to structure collaboration programs and joint funding opportunities in other research areas such as clean water, green energy, and carbon capture and utilisation.  

During the meeting at the New Palais campus, both institutions discussed strengthening their existing joint masters exchange program and proposed enhancing the PhD exchange program while working towards an undergraduate exchange program. 

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