WARANGAL: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Director Dr. Ulrich Podewils visited Kakatiya University and handed over research equipment worth $22,000 to the Pharmacy Department laboratory.
Mr. Podewils participated in interactive sessions with students and teachers at pharmacy and chemistry departments. He spoke on ‘Academic and research opportunities in Germany’. He said DAAD had 231 member universities with 14 regional offices across the world providing 51,962 scholarships. It had about 4,000 alumni in India. It was jointly taking up research activities with organisations like CSIR, IITs, IIMs in India. Internship in Germany, programmes for groups of Indian Scholars, M.S. M.Tech students of the IITs and also Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Research short and long term programmes were being offered as part of the programme.
Since the age limit for short term programmes was 32 years and long term programmes 36, many Indian researchers were unable to avail of the opportunities provided by DAAD. He said he would try to enhance the age limit.
According to Mr. Podewils, under sandwich model fellowship programmes, students could pursue their research for their doctoral degree jointly with German and Indian research supervisors.
