Sindh University Becomes Part Of Global Alliance For Food Sciences
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published November 16, 2018 | 08:50 PM
Another distinction has come to Sindh University as it has become the part of Global Alliance for Food Science and Education comprising 49 higher education institutes of 27 countries.
The university spokesman informed here on Friday that a three-member delegation from University of Sindh Jamshoro participated in "Belt and Road" University Alliance for Food Science and Education (BRUA-FSE) ceremony at Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China.
The Director National Centre of Excellence in Analytical Chemistry Prof Dr Shahabuddin Memon represented the university along with two other members namely Prof Dr Naseem Aslam Channa from Institute of Biochemistry and Prof Dr Najma Memon from National Centre of Excellence in Analytical Chemistry.
The ceremony included three main activities including Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), Taihu Lake Declaration and Presidential Forum of Alliance and the said alliance is being termed as world alliance where 27 countries and 49 universities including USA, New Zealand, Australia, Russia, Argentina, Italy, Ireland, UK and Pakistan signed MoU and Taihu Lake Declaration.
The alliance upholds the spirit of "Belt and Road" and follows the principle of "equality, cooperation, openness, tolerance, mutual learning and benefit", the university spokesman said.
He said that the alliance is also committed to promote cooperation among its member countries in personnel training, scientific research and cultural exchanges through setting up cooperation platforms, innovative cooperation mechanism and enhancing resource sharing.
The Alliance aims to achieve concordant and win-win development in food science and technology by boosting research activities among the higher institutions of the allied countries along the Silk Road.
The University of Sindh will be benefitted by the alliance with student exchange programmes through "Talented Young Scientist Programme" of Ministry of Science and Technology in China. The young scientists, scholars and researchers from "Belt and Road" will also be able to work in China for six or twelve-month collaborative research.
The member Universities of the alliance are eligible to host conferences, workshops and exhibitions aimed at providing an amazing opportunity for University of Sindh to offer students a multicultural environment for enhanced acceptability in diversified cultures.
Moreover, three scholars from National Centre of Excellence in Analytical Chemistry, University of Sindh namely Sanam Eruam Soomro, Aasifa Memon and Fayyaz Salih Hussain have also won fully-funded trip to China for presenting their posters at "Global Food Science Student Competition" which is concurrently ongoing event along with BRUA-FSE. These three student scholars are among the lucky hundred winners of the funded trip from the applicants from around the world.
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