MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN GAMBELLA UNIVERSITY, ETHIOPIA AND ANNAI VAILANKANNI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, INDIA

26 Agust,2021

Gambella University, Gambella People National Regional State (GPNRS), is one of the recently established higher education institutions in Ethiopia. Its cornerstone was laid by Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE) Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn and GPNRS president Gatluak Tut on 28 April 2014. Gambella University is located at Gambella town, the capital of GPNRS which is 766 km far away from Addis Ababa. At the beginning, the institution was established as Gambella Agricultural, Technical, Vocational and Educational Training (GATVET) College which was organized and managed by the former Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and GPNRS and Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Development from 2002 to 2012 to produce middle level Agricultural Developmental Agents. For ten years (2002-2012) more than 1,950 students were graduated on Animal Science, Natural Resource, Plant Science and Cooperative Departments in the Diploma program / (level IV). Moreover, more than 493 General Agriculture students were graduated within the Certificate Program.

Considering the similarity of the Objectives and mutual benefits, the Annai Vailankanni College of Engineering (AVCE), India and Gambella university, Ethiopia solemnly agree to enter into a MOU to foster Collaborative Research and Patent Filing, Faculty Exchange Program, Students exchange program in master's and Ph.D. level, Consultancy, Project funding, Resource mobilization, Generation and funding from government, AICTE, semi government organizations, Conducting workshops, seminars, conferences in the areas of Robotics, Image Processing, Materials, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science and Interdisciplinary interaction.