The University of Madras is all set to collaborate with the University of Passau, Germany, to conduct research in media and journalism and facilitate industry-academia partnership under the Erasmus+ project.
A European Union-funded project, it requires a formal agreement between the collaborating institutions. In the Erasmus programme, students from countries in the EU can travel to Germany, study a few semesters and earn credits. When the programme was extended world wide, it was named Erasmus+, said Hellmann-Rajanayagam, former reader in Passau University’s Department of Southeast Asian Studies.
Under Erasmus+, the university departments collaborate, receive funds for staff exchange programmes for up to three months in foreign university and students can apply for a year of scholarship which can be extended as well, she said. A historian by education, she had helped establish an MoU with Madras University earlier. Her specialisation is in conflict studies in Sri Lanka and Myanmar.
