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Infosys Foundation, the philanthropic arm of IT major Infosys, today said it has signed four MoUs with the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), to support research and mentoring activities.
The Foundation has signed an MoU for the grant of Rs 4 crore towards its excellence programme at ICTS, it said in a release.
Through this grant, the Infosys Foundation ICTS Visitor Fellowship will provide for 25 academics to travel to India each year for the ICTS programmes and will also provide a travel grant through the Infosys Foundation ICTS Excellence Grant for 20 academic members of the centre to travel abroad.
The grants aim at creating learning experiences for students to participate in academic activities abroad and forge partnerships with renowned educational institutions across the world, it added.
The International Centre for Theoretical Sciences of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Bengaluru is a multi and interdisciplinary centre.
The second MoU is for a grant of Rs 7.5 crore for organising lecture series by distinguished experts internationally and within India.
This collaboration is aimed at creating an environment to exchange ideas and explore cutting-edge research in basic sciences and mathematics, the foundation said, adding, the lectures would be known as the Infosys ICTS Chandrasekhar Ramanujan and Turing Lecture Series.
The Foundation signed the third MoU for a grant of Rs 3.35 crore to benefit nearly 200 students, faculty members and post-doctoral students (who will be referred to as Infosys Professors and Infosys Fellows in all their publications and events).
A grant of Rs 85 lakhs was committed for the Homi Bhabha Chair Professorship to support research and mentoring activities.
Under this MoU the Chair will be referred to as the Infosys Homi Bhabha Chair Professor.
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