NIMS Signed Comprehensive Collaborative Agreement with Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (NAST)
2013.08.01
(2013.08.06 Update)
(August 1st, 2013) Vice Chancellor of Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (NAST), Professor Surendra Raj Kafle paid a visit to NIMS and concluded a Comprehensive Collaborative Agreement (a sister institute agreement) in the presence of H. E. Dr. & Mrs. Madan Kumar Bhattarai, Nepalese Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Japan.
(left) President Ushioda (center) Ambassador and Mrs. Bhattarai (right) VC Prof. Kafle
NAST itself is a research institution and also it supports academic activities in Nepal by providing a scholarship and research funds, implementing collaboration and academic evaluation, advising on governmental policy, assisting foundation of research institutions both financially and technically and so on.
Interaction between NIMS and NAST started by a visit of the president of the Nepal Chemical Society (a professor of Tribhuvan University) in 2010 and NIMS has received 6 Nepalese researchers so far.
With this agreement, the interaction between the two institutions, such as student and post-doc dispatch, is expected to be enhanced.