MOU Signing with the University of Pantheon-Sorbonne (Paris I)
AIT President, Prof. Jean-Louis Armand, and Prof. Jean-Pierre Helfer, Director for International Affairs and Prof. Vicent Giard, Director of the Institute of Business Administration of the University of Pantheon-Sorbonne (Paris I), recently signed an agreement between AIT and the Institute of Business Administration of UP-S (Paris I) to establish the cooperation between AIT and University of Panteon-Sorbonne (Paris I) to respond the needs of multi-regional approach in the field of higher education as well as the specific needs of developing countries in Asia.
Both institutions will exchange students with a long-term balance in the number of students exchanged between each institution. The French-speaking students from the Institute of Business Administration-UP-S (Paris I) sent to AIT on an exchange or dual degree program will attend at least one course per term of the AIT French-English MBA program in order to facilitate the interaction with Asian French-speaking students. The exchange of students will cover at the doctoral level. Moreover, both institutions will encourage the exchange of faculty members The cooepration will also include credit transfers between AIT-MBA two year program and UP-S (Paris I) graduate program and post-graduate programs. Both institutions will consider other fields of cooperations, especially in the field of public management and international relations in order to meet the specific needs of countries of South-East Asia for highly qualified civil servants and executive offers in public organizations.