AMRITSAR: Professor Karamjeet Singh, Vice-Chancellor of Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU), Amritsar, proudly announced the university’s collaboration with the prestigious Eurasia-Pacific UNINET (EPU), furthering his vision to establish GNDU’s global prominence. EPU is a renowned platform fostering academic cooperation among over 200 universities worldwide. It facilitates research funding, faculty exchange programs, technical assistance, and collaborative publications, while organizing impactful conferences to exchange knowledge and ideas.
EPU operates through two key centers: the Asia China Tunnel and Underground Engineering Research Center, hosted by Tongji University, China, and the Austria-Central Asia Center for Geographic Information Science, hosted by Kyrgyz University. The EPU General Assembly selects an International Board to oversee its initiatives and ensure seamless implementation of its programs.
Under the leadership of Professor Karamjeet Singh, GNDU nominated Professor Amit Kauts as its representative to EPU. At the recent EPU General Assembly, Professor Kauts was elected as the South Asia Representative on the International Board, a significant milestone that underscores GNDU’s leadership in the region. Other elected representatives include Erdenestseg Bat-Erdene (Mongolian National University of Art and Culture), Prof. Yong Yuan (Tongji University, Shanghai), and Prof. Akylberk Chymyrov (Kyrgyz State Technical University, Bishkek).
Congratulating Professor Kauts, Vice-Chancellor Professor Karamjeet Singh emphasized GNDU’s consistent efforts in fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, global engagement, and knowledge creation. He expressed confidence that this achievement would strengthen GNDU’s partnerships with South Asian and Austrian universities, promoting staff exchange programs, collaborative research, and joint publications to enhance the university’s global research impact and citation metrics.
Professor Kauts shared details of his ongoing collaborations with Professor Shahnawaz of Salzburg University, Austria. Together, they have submitted a multi-country, multi-partner project for EPU funding, with GNDU as a key partner institution alongside Osh State University, Kyrgyzstan, and Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization, Uzbekistan. Under this collaboration, a staff mobility project has already been approved, and Professor Shahnawaz is scheduled to visit GNDU in February to conduct a workshop on climate and sustainability for faculty and students.
This achievement reinforces Guru Nanak Dev University’s status as a leading institution in South Asia, committed to advancing global engagement and fostering international collaboration in education and research.