The Intel^® Higher Education Program is part of the Intel^® Education initiative - a sustained commitment in collaboration with educators and government leaders worldwide to help today's students prepare for the demands of tomorrow. In India, the Intel^® Higher Education Program works closely with premier institutions and universities along with the Government, to help enrich the quality of technological and intellectual human resource available for the rapidly proliferating technology economy.

In India, Intel® Higher Education objectives are:

• Accelerate the advancement of university curricula to bridge the gap between academia and industry standards

• Act as a platform for sharing of ideas of the common research areas for collaboration between academia and industry

• Develop ecosystem to support new technology adoption & market expansion

The program focuses on advancing innovation in key areas of technology, as well as developing a pipeline of world-class technical talent for Intel's future workforce and the global knowledge-based economy.

This is achieved through sustained interaction in the form of variety of programs and initiatives. These could be research grants, curriculum input, faculty training programs, technology entrepreneurship education program, faculty sabbaticals (faculty of world class universities spending 3-6 months in India dividing their time between Intel campus and Indian academia), scholarships at Masters level and fellowships at PhD level.