Berhampur University India ties up with University of Groningen, Netharlands

Peter Berger, Professor of Indian Religion and Anthropology of Religion, University of Groningen, plans to visit Berhampur University for research collaboration

 

Berhampur University has tied up with the University of Groningen, Netherlands, for cooperation and exchange of fellows in research areas of mutual academic interest.

The University of Groningen has a department on comparative study of religion, focusing on Indian beliefs and their faculties have shown interest in collaborative research studies with Berhampur University. Peter Berger, Professor of Indian Religion and Anthropology of Religion, University of Groningen, plans to visit Berhampur University for research collaboration from December 2015 to February 2016.
Deepak Kumar Behera, Vice Chancellor, Berhampur University stated to the media, "We have signed MoUs with different institutes in the country and abroad for collaborative research, exchange of faculty members, conducting seminars and workshops and above all, to expand academic interest areas.”

Pratap Kumar Mohanty, Director, International Collaboration stated that the University of Groningen is the fifth foreign university to sign an MoU with BU. The other foreign universities are Aarhus University, Denmark, University of Tubingen, Germany, University of Abomey, Benin and Walsh College, Michigan, USA. The University is also working with the National Institute of Rural Development (NIRD), Hyderabad, and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay. It has introduced three add-on courses in collaboration with NIRD, and launched the Spoken Tutorial Project with IIT Bombay.