SLIIT and BALPP sign MOU for academic partnerships

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SLIIT Chairman Prof. Lakshman Ratnayake (right) with BALPP Executive Director Dr. Tara de Mel

The Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT) and the Bandaranaike Academy for Leadership & Public Policy (BALPP) recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding.

The MoU highlights details of potential collaboration between both parties, in academic partnerships that would facilitate mutual interests in promoting institutional development and academic enhancement coupled with student training and academic exchanges. These programs would primarily focus on disciplines that would create an intellectually advanced human capital that would have the capacity for innovation and creativity, with problem solving skills, that would facilitate the task of nation-building in Sri Lanka.

The areas that have been prioritised include Leadership with Ethical Governance, Climate Resilience

Policies, Technology in modernising Agriculture, Environmental Science Policy and Sustainability, Policies for Ethical Use of AI and related Technologies, Leadership in Cybersecurity Governance, and other similar areas.

The MoU was signed by SLIIT Chairman Prof Lakshman Ratnayake and BALPP Executive Director Dr. Tara de Mel. The MoU signing ceremony was attended by SLIIT Chief Student Officer Uditha Gamage, BLPP Chief Research Officer Arjuna Parakrama, Chief Operating Officer Aeshani Pereira and Chief Learning Officer Gihan de Chickera. The SLIIT Vice Chancellor Prof Lalith Gamage was unable to attend physically since he was overseas.