UK and India sign landmark research agreement

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The UK and India agree to a Memorandum of Understanding on the Research and Innovation Agreement signed at the UK-India Science Innovation Council meeting in Parliament today, which will help facilitate a series of new joint research programmes, with India joining the UK’s first fund of 119 million international science partnerships

The UK and India will sign a historic science and innovation collaboration agreement today (Wednesday 26 April), following a meeting between UK Science Minister George Freeman and India’s Minister of State for Science and Technology, Dr Jitendra Singh.

The memorandum of understanding on research between the two countries will be signed in Parliament this afternoon, enabling faster and deeper scientific collaboration between the two scientific powers that will boost economic growth, create skilled jobs and improve lives in the world. UK, India, and worldwide.

The agreement will remove the red tape that hampers major collaborations, while unleashing a series of new joint research programs aimed at advancing some of the biggest issues facing the world, from climate change and pandemic preparedness to AI and machine learning.

Programs include the creation of a new UK-India virtual net-zero innovation hub focused on industrial decarbonisation and the launch of the first-ever UK-India deep-sea science voyage .

Minister of State for the new Ministry of Science, Innovation and Technology, George Freeman said: India is rapidly building on its phenomenal software and innovation sectors to become a power world in science and technology.

With our extensive business and cultural ties, shared democratic values, and interest in pressing global issues, from green and agri-tech to biosecurity and pandemic preparedness, we have very strong platforms to deepen the research collaboration.

Today’s agreement is part of our plan to deepen the UK’s collaboration with other global science superpowers on breakthrough innovation and research, to help address shared global challenges. This partnership will grow the sectors, businesses and jobs of tomorrow for the benefit of our countries and the world.

The UK is committed to working with partners around the world to deliver world-class science and research. Other recent announcements include the launch of the International Fund for Science Partnerships in Japan, a memorandum of understanding on science with Switzerland, and agreements on closer agri-tech collaboration with Africa. from South.

Alongside this landmark agreement, today’s announcement also sees India named a partner in the UK’s International Science Partnerships Fund, continuing the UK-India science partnership built through the Newton Fund. -Bhabha. This renewed partnership will begin with two new joint research programs between the UK and India:

UK funding of 5 million, matched by India, for research into diseases and health of farm animals AI, machine learning and bio-imaging

Other UK-India deals to be struck at the Science and Innovation Council today include:

The establishment of the UK-India Net Zero Innovation Virtual Center, hosting the Hydrogen Valley and Industrial Decarbonization Living Lab to help decarbonize manufacturing and transportation programs on sustainability and solid earth hazards An intention to launch a partnership for the decarbonisation of India’s pharmaceutical and fine chemical industries A program of academic partnerships between the UK and India, including one between Aston University and CSIR Dehradun on sustainable biofuels. The fourth annual meeting (and second in-person meeting) of the RS/INSA Yusuf Hamied Programme, a program designed to promote relationships and knowledge exchange between British and Indian researchers

Collaborative activities under the MoU will be supported by joint funding agreed by both parties, with finances for each program to be determined between the UK and India on a case-by-case basis.

Notes to Editors

Other agreements between UK and Indian research and innovation institutions include:

Funding for 10 new fisheries research fellowships in the UK and India Other UK-India academic partnerships, including one between Imperial College and ICMR on pandemic and disaster modeling elimination of tuberculosis A study on the use of cutting-edge British technology to detect diseases in prawn aquaculture A partnership on using data to detect algal blooms affecting our oceans A partnership to predict, spot and intercept invasive alien species that devastate farmers’ crops in southern India A portal on medicinal plants traded in India developed by Royal Botanic Gardens (RBG) at Kew and TDU Bangalore A joint PhD program by the University of Manchester and Indian Institute of Science Annual dialogue between the Science Museum Group in the UK and the National Council of Science Museums in India Twin Cities UK-India Marine Litter Partnership between Aberystwyth, Wales and Puducherry, India A joint PhD program by the University of Manchester and Indian Institute of Science

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