India’s premier technical education and research institution – Indian Institute Of Technology Delhi (IIT-Delhi) –  has said it will open the institution’s first international campus in Abu Dhabi in January 2024, the state news agency, WAM reported. Rangan Banerjee, director of  IIT-Delhi said the institution had signed a memorandum of understanding with the Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge and India’s Ministry of Education in June during thevisit of Indian Prime Minster Narendra Modi to the UAE.

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Rangan explained that the institution will handle all academic matters in its new Abu Dhabi branch, including curriculums, labs, and research initiatives, in addition to participating in infrastructure planning, especially digital infrastructure, in cooperation with partners in ADEK and other relevant entities.

The Director of IIT-Delhi stated that the Abu Dhabi branch will provide an added value to the research and innovation sector in the emirate, adding that it will benefit from cooperation opportunities with institutions such as the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), and Technology Innovation Institute (TII) to provide integrated programmes and advanced research.

He further said that some of the areas targeted by the institute’s branch in Abu Dhabi in the first phase include computer science, artificial intelligence, energy and sustainability, health care, in addition to research programmes.