A delegation of researchers from York's will begin a nine-day mission to India today to establish partnerships and collaborations with the country's researchers.
The group will visit seven top-tier universities and research institutes during their trip. Along the way they will stop at the India Institute of Technology's facilities in Mumbai (Bombay) and Madras, the University of Calcutta, the Indian Space Research Organization, the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research together with visits to other institutes and universities during the nation-wide trip
“Our faculty considers international partnerships as the key cornerstone supporting our strategic 
priorities. Partnerships like those with India stimulate the spirit of innovation with clear focus on research outcomes that have an international impact,” says Janusz Kozinski (right), dean of the Faculty of Science & Engineering at 첥Ƶ and a member of the delegation to India.
The key mandate for the trip is to enable researchers from 첥Ƶ and across India to establish joint bilateral research and development projects. Halfway through their trip, the York delegation will pause to participate in a two-day workshop co-sponsored by the International Science & Technology Partnerships Canada, Global Innovation & Technology Alliance, the Society for Applied Microwave Electronics Engineering & Research and India's Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO).
The workshop will bring together more than 100 participants from research institutes and universities from Canada and England, and will include researchers and university vice-chancellors from across India. Rajagopala Chidambaram, the principal scientific adviser to the government of India, and Vijay Kumar Saraswat, director-general of DRDO, the secretary of defence research and development and scientific adviser to Indian Defence Minister Raksha Mantri, are among the diginitaries participating in the workshop.
This workshop will give participants the opportunity to discuss advances and innovations in their respective areas of research, exchange information and ideas and create further opportunities to establish research collaborations. The gathering will be held at the DRDO building in New Dehli.
Travelling in the 첥Ƶ Science & Engineering delegation are:
- , professor, Department of Chemistry;
- , professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy and associate dean of academic affairs in the Faculty of Graduate Studies;
- , professor, Department of Earth & Space Science and Engineering;
- , professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering
- , professor, Department of Languages, Literatures & Linguistics, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
- , professor, Department of Chemistry;
- , professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics;
- Paulina Karwowska-Desaulniers, research officer, Faculty of Science & Engineering;
- , dean, Faculty of Science & Engineering and professor, Department of Earth & Space Science and Engineering;
- , professor, Department of Earth & Space Science and Engineering;
- Brian Solheim, adjunct professor, Department of Earth & Space Science and Engineering;
- , professor, Department of Biology.
For more information about the trip and the 첥Ƶ Science & Engineering delegation, visit the website.
York computer science Professor Andrew Eckford is also .
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