Activities with ASEAN's dialogue partners
ASEAN - India

Cooperation under ASEAN-India

Since the sectoral linkage between ASEAN and India was formally upgraded to full Dialogue Partner status at the fifth ASEAN Summit in 1995, the two parties have widened their scope of co-operation covering, among others, human resources development and people-to-people contacts. It was also agreed that human resources development features among the priority area where joint activities should be carried out. With this in mind, the experts had conducted the ASEAN-India Study on Human Resource Development Co-operation which covers the following concerns;
Accreditation system for higher and technical education
Academic exchanges, networking & twinning arrangements in social sciences
Academic exchanges, networking & twinning arrangements in technical and education.
ASEAN Study Centres in India and Indian Study Centres in ASEAN countries

The Workshop on ASEAN-India Human Resource Development (HRD) Study was held during 16-17 October 2000 in New Delhi and hosted by the Educational Consultants India, Ltd. (EdCIL) and India's Ministry of External Affairs with financial support from the ASEAN-India Fund.

The Workshop agreed to follow practical steps recommended by the experts and requested the AUN Secretariat and the EdCIL to serve as focal points for implementing the Work Plan. For that reason, technical and management education is focused as a starting point for collaboration under ASEAN-India framework. As recommended by the Workshop, 2 Indian delegates, hosted by the AUN Secretariat, observed the Workshop on AUN-QA Alliance in Bangkok on 11 November 2000 in order to start exchanging information regarding quality assurance in higher education between ASEAN and India.

Later in March 2001, the 4th Meeting of ASEAN-India Working Group has endorsed the Report of the Workshop and agreed that the implementation of the Work Plan would be done under the overall coordination of the Ministry of External Affairs of India and ASEAN Secretariat.

Current Status

Relevant to the Workshop on ASEAN-India HRD Study, the AUN Secretariat prepared a draft proposal on Preliminary Visit for ASEAN India Academic Exchanges focusing on co-operation in technical education. The proposal targets at the visit by concerned authorities from AUN Member Universities to identified Indian institutes and a wrap-up workshop to setting out the framework for further academic exchanges programmes.

Februray 2003, the proposal was approved for funding by ASEAN-India Cooperation Fund and then December 14-18 December 2004, AUN Secretariat co-organized with the Indian Ministry of Human Resource Development conducted the Preliminary Visit for ASEAN India Academic Exhchanges.

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