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Bengaluru, Dec 9: The Finland government has expressed interest to collaborate with Karnataka in the areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Energy, Career Placement and other vital sectors.

In the Finland-Karnataka innovation corridor MoU steering committee meeting held between the delegation of Finland headed by Ritva Koukku-Ronde, Ambassador of Finland and Dr C N Ashwatha Narayana, Minister for Higher Education and IT/BT, these matters were discussed in Bengaluru on Thursday.

Ritva Ronde said Finland values the collaborative scheme highly and wants to maintain close relationships with the Karnataka government, its’ business sector and academia.

“The delegation also expressed its’ keenness about the startup ecosystem of the state. Further, we (the government of Karnataka) have an open mind with regard to allowing the opening of pre-schools in the state by entities of Finland,’’ Dr Narayana said.

In addition to this, the minister said the State looked forward to collaborating with Finland for ‘training the teachers’ programme under which Finland will help us to train the faculty of the State.

Dr Jukka Holappa, Country Director- Business Finland, Jukka Ilomaki, Counsellor, Embassy of Finland, Dr Mika Tirronen, Counsellor, Embassy of Finland, Suresh Kumar of FINCHAM (Finland Chamber of commerce in India) were present at the meeting.