Canada and India signed a Memorandum of Understanding to foster cross-border partnerships focused on research excellence and industry-academic collaboration. This agreement will enable Canadian and Indian researchers to undertake graduate level academic research in both countries.
“Under the graduate level academic research mobility program, both sides intend to support up to 110 Master’s and PhD student researchers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics fields,” an official statement said. Students from eligible universities in India will participate in twelve to twenty-four weeks’ research with Canadian university research laboratories in a three-year period. The same number of researchers from Canadian universities will also participate for the same period in Indian research laboratories.
The collaboration is expected to lead to new knowledge creation, joint scientific publications, industrial exposure, and IP generation.
