Aalborg University and Indian counterpart set up innovation centre

Aalborg University and Sinhgad Technical Education Society in India have teamed up to establish an international institute for innovation. The heads of both universities signed a collaboration agreement in Aalborg last week in the presence of India's ambassador to Denmark. The International Institute for Innovations in ICT (I4CT) will be established at Sinhgad Technical Education Society in Lonavala near Mumbai.  The news is reported in a press release from Aalborg  University.

 

One of the initiators of the project, Professor Ramjee Prasad, director of Aalborg University's Center for TeleInFrastruktur, says:

"Initially the focus will be on communication technology, energy and medical science, but we expect to expand with more fields. We will have areas and buildings made available to us by our Indian partner, and our ambition is to create a university campus which is unequalled in the world. We will make it an exhibition window for all the things we can do today with wireless technology. The aim it also to attract investors and create business opportunities that can make the institute self-financing."

 

The agreement also comprises exchange of students, who will carry out work in collaboration with industries in both India and Denmark.  I4CT is expected to open at the end of February.

 

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