UKIERI: Programme objectives
- Bringing India and UK together through academic engagement
- Developing long term sustainable partnerships
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Developing new institutions and centres of excellence as global knowledge hubs
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Successful integration between research, education and business needs
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Enhancing capacities of institutions through development of sustainable initiatives in leadership, skills development and innovation
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Providing opportunities for joint learning through adapting models, standards and practices prevalent in both India and the UK across sectors
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Contribution to the mutual recognition of learning
Key Achievements
- 105 Higher Education Partnerships and 7 skills partnerships involving over 100 institutions from India and the UK in the second year of phase 3
- UKIERI-AICTE Technical Leadership Development Program providing opportunity to over 500 senior educators from Engineering, Polytechnic from polytechnics from 24 states of India
- Institutional grants to 66 selected proposals under MHRD SPARC (Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration)