Jipmer hosts Indo-French campus programme to spur academic ties

French Consul General Etienne Rolland-Piègue addressing a Franco-Indian campus programme hosted by Jipmer.
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Jipmer hosted a Franco-Indian campus programme on academic and research collaboration in the field of healthcare in association with ILIADE (Innovation through plants and artificial intelligence for India and France), a consortium of four French and four Indian institutes and universities.

A press note said the initiative aimed to develop cooperation in development of academic and research collaborations besides exchange of faculty and students for training and mutual exposure to conditions unique to the healthcare themes of each country.

Etienne Holland-Piegue, French Consul General, and Antoine Guillemet, French attaché for scientific and academic cooperation in Bangalore, French Institute in India, led the programme.

Mr. Holland-Piegue, while addressing the gathering mentioned the long-standing ties between the two countries, especially the three-hundred-year-old ties with erstwhile Pondicherry. What was Jipmer now had evolved out of the École de Médicine established nearly 200 years ago, he pointed out.

The ILIADE project reflected many areas of common interest both in the academic and research domains that will enhance the healthcare in both countries. The exchange mobilities of students and faculty between Jipmer and the member French universities will be a great avenue for AI-driven advances in research of the future and medical innovation, he said.

V.S. Negi, Jipmer Director, highlighted the ample scope for opportunities through the ILIADE project that sought to enhance the learning experience of French and Indian students and researchers in order to conduct high end research beneficial to the advancement of healthcare in both countries. He also elaborated the facilities that would be provided to French invitees under exchange programme of the consortium project.

Reena Gulati, professor of Paediatrics and principal coordinator of the ILIADE project at Jipmer, gave an overview of the broad areas of training and research in which collaborative projects could be developed.

The ILIADE team also visited some departments with common areas of interest, the press note said.