Gandhinagar

Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) is set to host nearly a dozen Japanese students from Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST). JAIST is planning to send a team of its students to IITGN to study and understand the institute’s interdisciplinary and project oriented curriculum. A delegation of four members from JAIST visited IIT Gandhinagar on Friday (January 16, 2015) to explore various ways of sharing and collaboration.

President at JAIST, Dr Tetsuo Asano said, “We are planning to send a team of our students to study at IITGN and also look at its interdisciplinary studies. We have been receiving students from India for several years but this will be the first time our students are going to India.”

IITGN signed an MoU with JAIST in November 2013. Through the MoU, the two institutes agreed to explore opportunities and possibilities for students and faculty exchange, cultural exchange, develop educational and scientific exchange and cooperation and such joint initiatives.

As a part of the exchange programme, a team of students from IITGN will also be visiting JAIST in March. IITGN Director, Professor Sudhir K Jain said, “The collaboration with JAIST is a great opportunity to share experience and good practices from each other in advancing our mutual interest of becoming world-class institutes. Globalization is a key pillar of IIT Gandhinagar’s educational mission in the deeply interconnected world that out graduates will enter.”

JAIST current offers Post Graduate Courses and Research though its three schools including School of Knowledge Science, School of Information Science, School of Materials Science. Dr Asano said, “One of our interdisciplinary aspects includes allowing our students of different schools to partly in the other schools as well.

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