Prof. Mariana Curado Malta was welcomed by Prof. Animesh Dutta in the National Institute of Technology (NIT) of Durgapur between 16th and 21st of June 2018. She met several scholars of the NIT and interacted with many students of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, either undergraduate, master and PhD students. She had the opportunity to discuss their research designs, see demonstrations of student’s work and discuss more closely with the students involved in the work of EMPOWER SSE project.
Mariana Curado Malta also gave a workshop about scientific writing were students brought papers written by them or under development to discuss better approaches to the scientific writing.
Mariana Curado Malta had the opportunity to visit the Rabindranath Tagore Home and Museum and Visva Bharati University Campus, in Shantiniketan . She also visited the “Amar kuthi” cooperative, a project inspired by Tagore’s philosophy of freedom and people’s empowerment. All she saw was an inspiration for her future as an educator and researcher.