Prime Highlights
- India and Slovakia signed a labour migration MoU to facilitate safe, legal, and structured movement of skilled professionals and workers.
- Both countries agreed to strengthen cooperation in higher education, research, culture, and audio-visual production through new institutional frameworks.
Key Facts
- The proposed Social Security Agreement aims to protect the welfare and social security benefits of professionals working between India and Slovakia.
- The higher education and research MoU will promote student, faculty, and researcher exchanges, with a focus on STEM and humanities disciplines.
Background
India and Slovakia have signed a series of agreements aimed at strengthening cooperation in labour mobility, higher education, research, and cultural exchanges. The agreements were announced during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Bratislava, where he held delegation-level talks with Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico.
A key agreement focuses on labour migration and is designed to support the safe, orderly, and legal movement of workers between the two countries. The MoU will also improve information sharing between relevant authorities and create a framework for managing professional mobility. Both sides also agreed to work towards an early conclusion of a Social Security Agreement to protect the welfare and social security benefits of professionals working in each other’s countries.
The two nations also signed an MoU on higher education and research. The agreement aims to strengthen academic cooperation through student, faculty, and researcher exchanges. The agenda puts special focus on STEM courses while fostering cooperation in the humanities. It aims to ensure sustainable cooperation between educational organisations in the two countries.
As far as culture is concerned, an MoU has been signed between India and Slovakia to foster cooperation in audio-visual creation, films and media. This MoU aims to boost cultural exchange and relations among people through cultural cooperation.
In addition, the Indian and Slovak prime ministers highlighted the importance of fostering cultural collaboration alongside tourism and festivals. Collaboration between artists, experts, scholars, and students was recommended.
As per PM Narendra Modi, “The MoUs will help to ensure movement of professionals without any hassle, and it will promote international cooperation.”
