At New Delhi on December 8, 2005 : The President of India, Bharat Ratna Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam launched the Indo-US Inter-University Collaborative Initiative in Higher Education at Rashtrapathy Bhavan, New Delhi at 1:00 PM.

Signatories:

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham(Amrita University)
Harvard University
Yale University
Princeton University
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Purdue University
University of California, Los Angeles
The University of Texas at Austin
University of Michigan
University of Washington
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
University of Wisconsin-Madison
The University of North Dakota
University of Maryland
University of California, Santa Cruz

In a landmark agreement, that was inked during the visit of the Prime Minister to Washington DC on July 20th, Gurupurnima day, five leading American Universities joined Indian institutions led by AMRITA Vishwa Vidyapeetham, ISRO, and Department of Science and Technology to enhance science and engineering education in India over Edusat. More>>

Signatories:

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham(Amrita University)
The University of California at Berkeley
The University of California at San Diego
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Carnegie Mellon University,Pittsburgh
 Calit2: California Institute for Telecommunicati- ons & Information Technology
CITRIS: Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York