During the meeting with Minister of Education and Science and Technology of Korea, Ju-Ho Lee, both ministers exchanged views on the recent S and T policy trends and recognized the importance of further strengthening cooperation between the two countries. They agreed that the next Ministerial Steering Committee Meeting will be held in India in 2012, and every two years thereafter alternately in Korea and in India.
Both agreed to launch an exchange program for those undergoing masters in engineering and medical sciences, Ph.D. students, faculty and scientists, in the mutually agreed nine areas specified in POC to enhance the research capacity and results of science and technology. The exchange programme is expected to commence in the latter half of 2011. Both the ministers agreed on the need to promote human resource exchange and joint research in promising next-generation S and T fields through an MOU that was signed in the presence of the two ministers.
It was also agreed to launch a new programme "India-Korea Great Innovation S and T challenge". The first contest would be organized in India in 2012. Bansal and Lee noted with satisfaction the organization of first Indo-Korean Workshop on Energy and Environment on May 4, 2011 in Seoul.
Source: ANI
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