IIT-Kharagpur, German Alliance Ink Pact for Joint Research

• IIT Kharagpur signs an MoU with Rhine-Main Universities (RMU) to foster academic collaboration
• The agreement integrates IIT Kharagpur into RMU’s international network, enabling joint research
• The MoU will promote joint projects, PhD training, workshops, and researcher mobility for five years

The Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur) has established a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Rhine-Main Universities (RMU), an association of universities in Germany.

The university has signed a memorandum of understanding with a German university to boost joint research, student exchange, and academic collaboration.

The MoU was signed at TU Darmstadt, Germany in the presence of Suman Chakraborty, the Director of IIT Kharagpur, Ramanuj Banerjee, Counsellor (Science and Technology) from the Indian Embassy in Berlin and several other dignitaries.

The statement read, “This partnership establishes a powerful framework for joint research, faculty and student exchanges, academic networking and collaborative educational and cultural initiatives across diverse disciplines”.

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With this agreement, IIT Kharagpur has been officially inducted into RM Universe, RMU's international collaborative network, and will engage together with RMU in joint research proposals, fellowships, visiting professorships and student student research stays in Germany.

The statement added, “This partnership marks a new chapter in the Indo-German scientific alliance, a confluence of IIT-Kharagpur’s innovation-driven ecosystem and the Rhine-Main Universities’ deep academic and research strengths. Together, we aspire to nurture future-ready researchers and innovators equipped to tackle the world’s grand challenges”.

Their aim is to strengthen collaborative projects, PhD training, workshops, and mobility of early career researchers between the two regions. The MoU is valid for a period of five years, thereby developing a continuing academic and research collaboration between the two institutions.