Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (Comsats) and Philipps University Marbur, Germany, on Wednesday consented to join hands for capacity building in the Third World.
The agreement includes offer of graduate and postgraduate courses to the students from the developing countries in general and Comsats member countries in particular.
It also includes exchange of faculty and scientists, and organisation of joint international seminars and workshops.
The collaboration came into effect with the signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), during last week of December in Germany.
On behalf of the Commission, the Executive Director Comsats, Dr Hameed Ahmed Khan HI, SI, and from Philipps University Marburg (Germany), Professor Dr Wolfgang Ensinger signed the MoU.
The agreement opens the door to students and scientists from Comsats member countries to higher education facilities in Germany.
The students in all disciplines will be nominated by Comsats Headquarters and will be forwarded to the University for their admission to designated courses.
The co-operation between the two organisations aims to expand the resource pool of Comsats network.
Comsats channels resources from a formal network of 13 Centres of Excellence and maintains synergies and collaborative arrangements with a number of other research and academic institutions/organisations in the South and the North.
The Comsats mission is to support co-operation among the scientific institutions in the South as well as to create links with the institutions in the North in order to achieve science-led sustainable development for socio-economic benefit.
The key factor of collaboration is the development of human resource, which can bring the real change and mobilise the economy of the Third World.