GOVERNMENT TO COOPERATE WITH MIT

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ A Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation between the Mongolian Government and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was signed May 15 by the Minister of Education, Culture and Sciences L.Gantomor and the vice president of the MIT Claude R.Canizares. In frames of the MoU, the MIT and Mongolian universities will cooperate in joint researches, implement joint programs in innovation and entrepreneurship, the MIT professors will cooperate with Mongolian professors on teaching methodologies, Mongolian professors will work in the MIT as guest professors, and joint training and symposium will be organized under a topic of pressing issues facing urban planning. The cooperation will commence this September. Today, a total of 15 Mongolian students are receiving trainings at the MIT. The Minister L.Gantomor sent an official proposal for cooperation to the president of the MIT Mr Rafael Reif in January, 2014. Following the proposal, a Mongolian delegation representing the Ministry visited the MIT in March last year, as invited by the Institute. After this, a delegation led by the MIT administrator in charge of foreign relations Mr Bernd Widdig came to Mongolia in October, 2014, to study the cooperation atmosphere, and worked at the Mongolian University of Science and Technology, the Mongolian State University and other academic institutes. The scholars’ team reached conclusion that Mongolia is a potential partner in cooperation, who attaches a great importance in education. Mongolia has an interesting geographic location that can possibly make the country a strategically-important area in the regional economy, the study discovered.