International Relations

Asian Universities Alliance

About

In March 2016, Tsinghua University proposed to establish an alliance of Asian Universities. With the joint efforts of all the prospective founding Universities, on April 29, 2017 the Asian Universities Alliance (AUA) was formally launched at Tsinghua University, China.

The Asian Universities Alliance (AUA) is a regional organization established with the aim of jointly addressing regional and global challenges, specifically related to higher education and economic, scientific and technological development, by strengthening collaboration among member institutions. The Alliance was established with a core of 15 founding members, with the intention of gradual expansion and IIT Bombay is one of them.

AUA Website: http://www.asianuniversities.org/

Events

  • AUA Staff Exchange 2019-20 results – Three staff members from IIT Bombay have been selected for staff exchange program for this year. They will be visiting other AUA member universities for one week. One staff from University of Tokyo, Japan will be visiting IIT Bombay for staff exchange.

  • AUA Faculty Scholars Award results – Four faculty members from IIT Bombay have been selected for faculty exchange program for this year. They will be visiting other AUA member universities for 2 weeks. A group of three faculty members, one each from University of Malaya, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and King Saud University will be visiting IIT Bombay for faculty exchange.

  • Nazarbayev University, a member of AUA hosted a competition named 'Good Governance in the 21st century and its challenges' in June 2019. A student team from IIT Bombay actively participated in this competition.

  • Innovation, Incubation, and Entrepreneurship (I2E), a program hosted by IIT Bombay for other AUA member universities held on July 1-7, 2019. This program has students participation from other AUA member universities. An article on AUA Page

  • AUA conducted Online Education Conference at Beijing, China on July 5-6, 2019. Prof. Sridhar and Prof. Shana Murthy from IIT Bombay attended this conference. They have showcased the IIT Bombay activities in online education by participating as keynote speaker and joining round table discussions held during the conference.