Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Mar 24: Scientists from Finland interacted with the Kashmir University scientists to finalize the mega multi-disciplinary collaborative research initiative on studying various processes and phenomena in Kashmir and Ladakh Himalayas.
The multi-partner initiative shall involve, besides KU, various research and academic institutes from Finland, Sweden and UK.
The initiative aims to investigate various land surface, vegetational, climatic, biological, meteorological and other related processes and phenomena in an integrated manner. The research projects under the initiative shall be submitted for support under the Indo-Finnish Bilateral Scientific Cooperation Agreement between India and Finland and also under the Framework Programme of the European Union.
Prof Talat Ahmad, Vice-Chancellor, KU, who chaired the meeting, said that the initiative has tremendous societal and scientific importance and envisages student and faculty exchanges between KU and European partners.
Prof Shakil A Romshoo, Head Department of Earth Sciences, KU, who is coordinating the initiative, hoped that this mega intra-Departmental Initiative shall help to build the technical ingenuity of several departments of the University in cutting edge technologies.
Besides the Vice-Chancellor, the meeting was attended by Commissioner/Secretary, Higher Education, Navin Aggarwal, Dean, Prof A M Shah Academic Affairs, Dean, Research, Prof Khursheed A Andrabi, Registrar Prof Zafar A Reshi, Prof Shakil Romshoo, Prof Azra Kamili, Head Environmental Sciences, Prof F A Masoodi, Head Food Technology, Prof Irshad Nawchoo, Head, Botany Dept, Dr Gh Jeelani and Dr Rakesh Chandra, Dept of Earth Sciences. Dr Janna Halla, Finnish Natural History Museum and Dr Meiti Kurihala, Helsinki University, Finland represented the Finnish side in the meeting.
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