IIM Raipur signs MoU with France's Grenoble Ecole de Management

The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Raipur, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with France-based Grenoble Ecole de Management seeking student and faculty exchange programmes, collaborative research projects and organisation of joint academic and scientific activities.

Each institution will accept post-graduate students from the other institution starting from the academic year 2013-14. They have agreed to exchange up to five students for one semester/term of study per academic year. No tuition fee will be charged by the partner or host institution.

Grenoble Ecole de Management has ten sites abroad. They are based in China, Georgia, Lebanon, Morocco, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Switzerland, UK-London, and USA.

The co-operation programme aims to foster advancement in teaching, research, cultural understanding, as well as international reputations of both institutions through: the exchange of post-graduate students, faculty members, and academic information and materials; the organisation of joint corporate training programmes, joint research programmes, joint conferences; and other academic exchanges that both institutions agree to.

Grenoble Ecole de Management and IIM Raipur will also exchange faculty members, which will create a strong basis for the development of joint training programmes, formulating joint research projects, exchange of teaching materials, and so on.

Under this agreement, Grenoble Ecole de Management and IIM Raipur may invite faculty members from the partner school to teach part of a course or a full course.

Also, both institutions will explore possibilities of collaboration in conducting middle and senior management training programmes in business management topics. The programme will be of two weeks duration. One week of the programme will be conducted at IIM Raipur and one week will be conducted by Grenoble Ecole de Management at their facilities.

Both institutions shall explore the feasibility of organising joint international and local academic and business conferences to improve visibility and enhance the image of both institutions as quality service providers to business and industry.

Grenoble Ecole de Management has been accredited by AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA and has collaborations with IIM Bangalore and IIM Lucknow.