IIT Bombay And TU Dortmund University, Germany Sign MoU To Enhance Student Exchange And Entrepreneurship

The Technical University of Dortmund, Germany, and IIT Bombay, Mumbai, inked a Memorandum of Understanding to encourage student exchange and begin collaboration in a number of areas. Students, researchers, a representative from the International Office, and representatives from the Centre for Entrepreneurship & Transfer comprised the university’s 14-member delegation.

“The collaboration in the field of entrepreneurship was particularly in focus: TU students from the Departments of Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, and Business and Economics, who are participating in the interdisciplinary certificate program “Digital Technology Management” as part of the Dlab program, attended a workshop at the Desai Sethi School of Entrepreneurship at IIT Bombay and discussed innovative approaches with researchers and students there,” according to an official statement.

The agreement was signed by Prof. Tessa Flatten, Vice President of International Affairs, and Prof. Milind Atrey, Deputy Director at IIT Bombay. The MoU was signed in order to enable the exchange of doctorate candidates and other students and to increase scientific interaction across all fields.

“The new agreement with IIT Bombay is intended to enable students of both universities to spend semesters and years at each other’s institutions in the future. A similar student exchange cooperation already exists with the “Indian Institute of Technology Madras,” added the official statement.

In recent years, the number of Indian students at TU Dortmund University has increased by three times and now this is the biggest group of international students at the university. 391 Indian students enrolled at TU Dortmund University in 2023/24 as compared to 124 five years ago.