New Delhi, March 15 (CNA) Two research centers in Taiwan and India have signed a memorandum of understanding that paves the way for them to work together on science and education projects.
The MOU was signed remotely on Monday by Wang Chau-chang (王兆璋), and T.G. Sitharam, the directors of the Taiwan Ocean Research Institute (TORI) and a research center at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG), respectively.
Under the MOU, TORI and the IITG's Centre for Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems (CICPS) agreed to jointly organize workshops, hold short term courses and international conferences, and promote exchanges between their students and faculty members.
Inaugurated in 2021, the CICPS is one of several key technology innovation hubs funded by India's Ministry of Science and Technology, while TORI was established in 2008 and is one of the eight centers at Taiwan's National Applied Research Laboratories (NARLabs).
Wang Chin-tsan (王金燦), director of the Science and Technology Division at the Taipei Economic and Cultural Center in India, told CNA recently that India's technology ministry had invested 16.1 billion rupees (US$210 million) in the country's 25 research and innovation centers in 2021, and the CICPS was one of them.
He said his department had also been in talks with India's Ministry of Earth Sciences on the possibility of building cooperation with Taiwan on technology applications for sustainable disaster prevention.
Over the past year, research institutes in Taiwan and India have signed three MOUs on technology cooperation, including the non-binding agreement on Monday.
In February, Taiwan's National Center for High-performance Computing signed an MOU with the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur on cooperation in the field of information security technology.
Last April, National Cheng Kung University and the Indian Institute of Technology Madras agreed to work together on networking technologies.
Sources:The Overseas Community Affairs Council (OCAC )
