UTT signs MoU with Carbon Zero Institute

The Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UTT) has signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing with the Car­bon Ze­ro In­sti­tute of Trinidad and To­ba­go (CZITT) to es­tab­lish a frame­work for col­lab­o­ra­tion in ed­u­ca­tion, re­search, in­no­va­tion and tech­no­log­i­cal de­vel­op­ment.

The agree­ment out­lines op­por­tu­ni­ties for stu­dents and fac­ul­ty, in­clud­ing in­tern­ships, ap­plied re­search and project-based train­ing. It al­so pro­vides for joint re­search ini­tia­tives, knowl­edge ex­change and com­mer­cial­i­sa­tion of tech­nolo­gies de­vel­oped through col­lab­o­ra­tion.

Un­der the arrange­ment, the in­sti­tu­tions will work to ad­vance in­no­va­tion and dig­i­tal in­fra­struc­ture in Trinidad and To­ba­go and strength­en link­ages be­tween acad­e­mia and in­dus­try.

Speak­ing at the sign­ing, Pro­fes­sor Re­an Ma­haraj, Act­ing Pres­i­dent, UTT, said the uni­ver­si­ty’s role ex­tends be­yond aca­d­e­m­ic pro­grammes.

“UTT car­ries a re­spon­si­bil­i­ty that goes be­yond the de­liv­ery of aca­d­e­m­ic pro­grammes. We are here to sup­port na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment — to build ca­pac­i­ty, to dri­ve in­no­va­tion, and to en­sure that our coun­try is pre­pared for the fu­ture,” Pro­fes­sor Ma­haraj said.

Mr Don­ald Baldeosingh, Pres­i­dent, EN­MAN Group and Founder, CZITT, said the part­ner­ship re­flects shared goals in re­search and sus­tain­abil­i­ty.

Both in­sti­tu­tions stat­ed that the MoU for­malis­es col­lab­o­ra­tion in ar­eas of mu­tu­al in­ter­est and es­tab­lish­es a struc­ture for co­or­di­nat­ed projects and ini­tia­tives.

UTT and CZITT said the part­ner­ship will sup­port ef­forts re­lat­ed to sus­tain­abil­i­ty and tech­no­log­i­cal ad­vance­ment in Trinidad and To­ba­go through re­search, train­ing and in­dus­try en­gage­ment.