Dalhousie welcomed senior academic and innovation leaders from Tirupati, India, last week for a visit focused on turning shared economic priorities into research partnerships, startup connections, and industry collaboration.
Representatives from the Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati (IIT Tirupati) and the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Tirupati (IISER Tirupati) met with university leaders, researchers, deans, students , and innovation partners during the visit in Halifax and Truro, which ran May 23-28.
Partnership momentum builds
The visit included the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Dalhousie and IISER Tirupati, an in-person Creative Destruction Lab session at Dalhousie's Faculty of Management, the first annual Tirupati-Dalhousie Innovation Research Roundtable, among other activities.
"When we encounter partners like IIT Tirupati and IISER Tirupati that have shared interests, shared values, and a similar motivation to work on international partnerships in the same ways we want to, we want it to be active not just something that's on paper," says Matt Hebb, Dal's vice-president, strategic engagement.
