Germany will Help Indians With Easier Steps For Moving On Education Purposes & Jobs

India and Germany have entered into a new collaborative agreement to promote the mobility of citizens between the two countries. The program is designed to create more opportunities for the exchange of skills, knowledge, and experience, as well as to provide better employment prospects. This initiative seeks to strengthen the ties between India and Germany, furthering the exchange of culture, ideas, and technology.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his German counterpart Annalena Baerbock, signed a mobility agreement "that will make it easier for our people to study, do research, and work in each other's country."

Highlights of the Agreement

• India and Germany have decided to continue their education and qualification collaboration, appreciating especially the establishment of digital preparatory courses that Indian students can admit in to begin their university courses in Germany.
• The agreement includes the Academic Evaluation Center in New Delhi, permits for extended residency up to 18 months for students, 3,000 job seeker visas annually, multiple entry visas with liberalized short-stay regulations, and streamlined readmission policies.
• The agreement will institutionalize a joint working group to further boost cooperation in Migration and Mobility.?
• The Indian government will promote student exchange and allow students from Germany to study at Indian universities through programs such as ‘Study in India’.

At the press conference in Berlin, Scholz emphasized the increasingly interconnected nature of higher education and science between both nations. More than 17,000 Indian students benefit from the opportunities by studying in Germany. Furthermore, both governments expressed their approval of university-level initiatives to foster cooperation between the universities of the two countries.?

"Working on this together with strengthening human rights is also our task," Baerbock said in a statement on her visit to India. Beyond their strategic engagement, Germany intends to deepen their economic and security policy collaboration with India.