India, Israel sign $50 million academic research pact
Source: haaretz
India and Israel signed a $50 million academic research agreement at the end of last week for collaboration in the sciences, humanities, technology and other fields.
The joint research program is a cooperation agreement over five years. Applications for funding will be invited in March next year, and projects will receive up to $200,000 a year for three years. About 50 joint projects are expected to be approved.
The program will support collaboration in the areas of the sciences, including life sciences and social sciences, as well as IT, technology, the humanities and agriculture.
The chairman of the Israel Science Foundation, Prof. Benjamin Geiger, signed the agreement in New Delhi with his Indian counterpart, chairman of the University Grants Commission, Ved Prakash. The pact follows a recent visit by Kapil Sibal, the Indian minister for human resource development, to Israel in April, when he met with Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz, Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar and Manuel Trajtenberg, the chairman of the Planning and Budgeting Committee of the Council for Higher Education, the Indian press reported.
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maybe one day israel will do this with the palestinians or some other arab neighbors and india will do it with pakistan
