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Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham brought a new scholarship program for 350 students of Africa, who will be chosen based on their merits in academics.
NEW DELHI: Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham conducted the Amrita-Africa Collaboration meet 2022 whereby it offered an educational opportunity to 350 African students. The prime objective of the collaboration is to strengthen the Indo-African relationship in three areas - Research, Academics, and Healthcare. Amrita brought a 100% tuition waiver Chancellor scholarship for 350 meritorious and potential candidates, who have registered their names for different courses.
The announcement was made at the Amrita-Africa Summit on Monday. At that event, the chief guest was Shri V. Muraleedharan, Minister of State for External Affairs, Government of India, and ambassadors from 18 African nations. Apart from them, some special guests like Swami Amritaswarupananda Puri, Vice Chairman of Mata Amritanandamayi Math and President of Amrita were present there.
At the press meet, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham proposed that it is going to collaborate with the top-level universities of Africa. So that the students can get a chance to show their academic excellence and can flourish in their career paths.
New opportunities
The scholarship will be offered not only for undergraduate and graduate courses but also for the doctoral programs. Some of the opportunities of the Amrita-Africa Collaboration meet are listed in the following section:
- Opportunities to work with 2 UNESCO chairs
- UNESCO Chair on Experiential Learning for Sustainable Innovation and Development
- UNESCO Chair on Women Empowerment and Gender Equality as well
The Amrita-Africa collaboration can build a better world instead of making conflicts across the societies. Amrita also proposed that soon after African countries and Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham will make an official agreement in several fields of available study. This also includes the medical schools at Amrita Hospital.
About Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham is NAAC accredited A-Grade, multidisciplinary autonomous university. As per the NIRF ranking 2021, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham is ranked as the number one private university and is 5th out of all public and private universities. To hold its position, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham aims at Internationalization, through which the University comes up with a new edge of Education.
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