Portugal-India have identified sectors for work
Portugal has offered India to be an entry point in joint European projects using the two countries’ highly qualified young generation and excellent technological skills.
Making the offer, Portugal’s ANI (National Innovation Agency) President Eduardo Maldonado noted opportunities for enhancing cooperation between the two countries through collaborative research and innovation projects, staff exchanges in research and academic institutions and mobility.
These projects can be done bilaterally or with Portugal being the entry point to joint projects in Europe, he said at the Tech Leadership Plenary Session of the DST-CII Technology Summit.
Also, the two countries discussed areas like water, healthcare, Agritech, waste management, cleantech climate solutions, and ICT in which the two countries can collaborate to bring about solutions for societal challenges and build a holistic and mutually beneficial relationship at the summit.
India and Portugal have been rediscovering each other through science, technology, innovation, industry and markets and started collaboration in co-creating bilateral knowledge, collaborative projects in science, technology and innovation and co-operating on multilateral issues, Secretary, Department of Science and Technology (DST), Prof. Ashutosh Sharma said in his keynote address at the summit on 7 Dec 2020.
“Both Portugal and India have identified sectors such as water, healthcare, agritech, waste management, cleantech, and ICT as the priority sectors,’ Prof. Sharma told the summit.
India offers huge market opportunities in each of these identified sectors and, therefore, partnership possibilities to address shared societal challenges. Most of these sectors are also the strengths for Portugal, he added.
“As we rapidly industrialise and move to newer standards of production, we would have to face challenges like Carbon Capture Utilisation and Sequestration (CCUS). If we can have collaboration between Portugal and India, maybe (we) would find a solution that is deployable at economies of scale,” Dr. Debashish Bhattacharjee Vice President Technology & New Materials Business, Tata Steel, told the summit. #technology #projects #solutions #R&D /fiinews.com
