Hyderabad: DUO-India fellowships for University of Hyderabad teachers

Hyderabad: Dr Vinod Pavarala, Senior Professor of Communication & UNESCO Chair on Community Media, Sarojini Naidu School of Arts & Communication and Prof Ramesh Kumar Mishra, Head, Centre for Neural and Cognitive Sciences, School of Medical Sciences, University of Hyderabad have been awarded the Duo-India Professor fellowship award which facilitates international exchange of professors between Indian and European institutes.

Under this scheme, Prof Vinod Pavarala and Prof Jo Tacchi, Loughborough University, London, UK will visit each other's institute for a period of one month each in 2020. Professor Vinod Pavarala will deliver lectures to MA Students in the Institute for Media and Creative Industries at Loughborough University to give a seminar for staff and research students, run a masterclass for Ph D students during May 2020.

Professor Tacchi will deliver lectures to MA students in the Department of Communication at the University of Hyderabad and also deliver lectures on "Principles and Practices in evaluating communication for development" and "Concepts to think within Communication for Social Change" during February-March 2020.

Prof. Ramesh Mishra and Prof Niels Schiller from Leiden University, the Netherlands will visit each other's institute for a period of one month each in 2020. Both of them will be engaged in teaching and research during their visits.

The exchange of faculty is expected to further enhance bilateral cooperation between the two countries.

DUO-India Fellowship Programme is established in 2019 with the aim of promoting exchanges of people between India and European countries on a balanced and permanent basis. For this program, only such institutes which are part of the Joint Research Projects under Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC) are eligible to participate.

DUO-India aims to fund every year, 50 professor-pairs for exchanges for one month, starting from 2020 onwards aiming to provide mobility between Indian and European institutes. In this respect, DUO-India requires that a PAIR (two persons) of professors to be exchanged, and they should be from any of the collaborating institutes (both Indian and European) under SPARC projects.