Hyderabad: Two-day IICT, Royal Melbourne Institute joint workshop commences

A two day workshop ‘Creating Profound Impact through Multidisciplinary Collaborations commenced at CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology

Hyderabad: A two day workshop ‘Creating Profound Impact through Multidisciplinary Collaborations (CPIMC-2022)’ commenced at CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT) on Monday.

The workshop is part of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Australia, and IICT joint collaboration programme. Speaking on the occasion, Chief Guest, Prof. Goverdhan Mehta, UoH, said the association between RMIT and IICT must venture towards multi-institutional and multinational cooperation.

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Prof. Calum J Drummond, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, RMIT University, Australia, said working with industry is the core idea of RMIT, which is similar to the central theme of CSIR. “Conduct of research is essential but it must benefit beyond and bring about economic utility, he said.

Prof. Suresh K. Bhargava, Organizing Chair, Dean, RMIT University, Australia, on the occasion said the collaboration between the two institutes has been built on trust and mutual benefit. He also indicated that efforts will be made to extend this collaboration between Australia, India, Japan, and the United States.

Dr D Srinivasa Reddy, Director, CSIR-IICT and Programme Convener, said “IICT and RMIT have been cherishing well established cooperation in terms of research and academic programs as well as cultural exchange.

As a part of this program, we made a big progress with 33 Indian research scholars awarded Ph.D., more students enrolling for the sandwich programme, 150 research papers published in international journals, 50 articles in various conference proceedings, and a few patents filed too.”

He said identifying new research areas and visit of post-doctoral students and faculty between the institutes can be the future step in the international collaboration.

While presenting the overview of the workshop, Dr. S. Sridhar, Chief Scientist of CSIR-IICT, said the present programme is the second workshop held at CSIR-IICT, while the first one was held in 2018.