Shri Kapil Sibal, Union Minister for Science & Technology and Earth Sciences and Dr Annette Schavan, Federal Minister for Education & Research, Germany had bilateral discussions today on the sidelines of the German Chancellor’s visit to India. Both ministers discussed matters of bilateral interests in the areas of Science & Technology.

It was mentioned that both India and Germany have agreed to set-up Indo-German S&T Centre in Delhi with the two sides committing 10 million euros each for over a period of next 5 years. The Centre will be a model for Public Private Partnership for Scientific and Industrial research. The MoU for establishing the Indo-German Centre would be concluded later today in presence of the heads of the governments of the two countries and would be signed by their science ministers.

MoUs pertaining to cooperation in the fields of S&T were signed during the meeting between the two ministers. These are between

1. DST and DAAD for exchange of senior and young researchers.

2. IIT Delhi and TU Darmstadt for implementing joint research project on Lean manufacturing processes.

3. Anna University and Helmoltz Association on energy research

4. JNU-ICMR-Helmoltz Association on Medical research.

Both ministers further agreed to enhance the scope of the on-going S&T activities.