NEW DELHI: India and Norway has strengthened their science and know-how partnership with the signing of 5 main agreements targeted on green vitality, sustainable growth, ocean know-how, innovation and geoscience collaboration throughout Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s go to to Norway.
The collaborations are aimed toward strengthening institutional partnerships, selling business and startup engagement, enhancing educational cooperation and accelerating sustainable progress initiatives between the 2 international locations.
One of the main agreements signed was a Memorandum of Understanding between DSIR/CSIR and the Research Council of Norway (RCN) to improve collaboration in analysis, know-how growth, innovation and capability constructing.
The settlement supplies for joint workshops, collaborative analysis and growth tasks, scientist alternate programmes and implementation mechanisms targeted on world challenges and Sustainable Development Goals, together with local weather change, clear vitality, ocean analysis and healthcare.
CSIR additionally entered right into a Collaboration Agreement for 2026-2029 with SINTEF, Norway’s main impartial analysis organisation, below the framework of an present 2014 settlement between the 2 establishments.
The partnership will concentrate on round economic system and sustainability transition via joint innovation and analysis programmes in areas reminiscent of bio-based supplies, ocean vitality, offshore wind, carbon seize, storage and utilisation, and waste valorisation.
In one other essential growth, a number of CSIR institutes signed a project-specific collaboration settlement with SINTEF establishments for cooperation in ocean vitality and offshore wind vitality applied sciences.
The collaboration includes CSIR-Structural Engineering Research Centre, CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories, CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography and CSIR-Fourth Paradigm Institute together with SINTEF Ocean, SINTEF Digital, FME NorthWind and SINTEF Community.
The joint programme goals to strengthen India’s offshore renewable vitality capabilities and help nationwide renewable vitality and carbon neutrality targets.
The mission will concentrate on floating offshore wind applied sciences, reducing the Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE), sustainability requirements, ESG frameworks, pilot demonstrations, ability growth and industrial progress.
CSIR will present funding help of practically Rs 341 lakh for the initiative. A Joint Declaration of Intent titled “Science, Technology and Innovation Cooperation for the Green Shift” was additionally signed between CSIR, the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
The declaration focuses on cooperation in sustainability, round economic system, ocean science and know-how, healthcare and civil infrastructure engineering. (IANS)