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IIITH delegation visit France for India-EU collaboration

A five member delegation from IIITH visited France from 8 – 12 July to explore collaboration opportunities between French universities, start-ups and Government. This visit was part of IIITH’s Center of Excellence (CoE) on Internet of Things (IoT) for Smart Cities supported by the EU-India Cooperation on ICT standardization, policy and legislation project. The IIITH delegation consisted of Dr. Sachin Chaudhari, CoE Coordinator (SPCRC), Prof. Vishal Garg (CBS), Prof. Ramesh Loganathan (CIE and Outreach), Dr. Aftab Hussain (CVEST), and Mr. Prabhakara Rao (CBS).

 

From 8 – 10 July, the delegation visited Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems (LAAS-CNRS), Toulouse as well as Toulouse campus of French engineering university INSA. And from 11 – 12 July, they visited Bordeaux and met government officials of Bordeaux Metropole (smart city), saw their smart city implementations as well as visited their smart-city start-up cluster, Technowest. The delegation’s visit was a fruitful one with collaborations on multiple fronts of research, education, start-ups already in the works.