MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING ON ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH Cooperation BETWEEN EXCELPOLITAN International COLLEGE, MALAYSIA AND SHIH CHIEN UNIVERSITY, TAIWAN (R.O.C)
EXCELPOLITAN INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE - hereinafter referred to as EPI and the SHIH CHIEN UNIVERSITY hereafter referred to as USC, considering their common interest in promoting the mutual cooperation in the area of education and research, wish to expand the basis for friendship and cooperative educational exchange, agreed the following Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).
Article I: Purpose
The purpose of this MOU is to develop academic and educational cooperation on the basis of equality and reciprocity and to promote relations and mutual understanding between the institutions.
Article II: Scope of the Cooperation
Both parties undertake to promote and develop academic cooperation as follows
1. Exchange of academic and administrative staff and students.
2. Extension of students'learning opportunities.
3. Cooperation in research and the presentation of its results.
4. Exchange of academic materials, publications and other scientific information.
5. Other educational and academic exchanges to which both institutions agree.
Article III: Financial Arrangement
1. Both parties agree that all specific arrangements and plans for activities are to be negotiated and are dependent on the availability of funds.
2. Both parties agree to feasibly seek financial support from national and international
organizations for the cooperative activities to be undertaken as staled under the terms of this MOU.
Article IV: Agreement of Implementation
A detailed description of the scope of activities shall be defined in the Agreement of
implementation which constitutes an integral part of this MOU.
The Agreement of implementation will include such items as
1. Elaboration of the responsibilities of each institution for the agreed activities.
2. Schedules for specific activities.
3. Budgets and financial sources for each activity.
4. Any other items deemed necessary for the efficient management of the activities.
Article V: Intellectual Property Rights and Publication
1. The parties will share all data and research findings. and respect patent rights, copyrights, and other intellectual property rights regarding any discoveries, inventions and products resulting from this MOU.
2. Both parties must give written approval for the utilization and publication of the data and research findings
3. Detailed arrangement of finding and their Intellectual Property Rights and Publication shall be defined in the Agreement of Implementation.
Article VI: Confidentiality
1. Both parties will maintain the confidentiality of all Confidential Information of the disclosing party and will not disclose any Confidential Information to any employees or to any third party except on a need to know basis. Such confidentiality obligations shall survive and continue beyond the expiration or termination of this MOU for a period of one (1) year. EPI and USC hereby agree to comply with the privacy laws under the Personal Data Protection Act 2010.
2. "Confidential Information" means in respect of a party, all of that party's intellectual property and information relating to that party's private or business affairs, includin, without limitation, technical. financial, operational, administrative, marketing, economic and other information, which is disclosed by one party to the other party, its officers, employees, agents or sub-contractors as a result of this MOU.
Article VII: Settlement of Differences
The differing viewpoints and interpretations of this MOU shall be settled amicably by mutual consultation or negotiation.
Article VIII: Amendments, Duration and Termination
1. Amendments to this MOU can only be made þy mutual consent for the two parties.
2. This MOU shall be in effect from the date of its Signature and be valid for the duration of three years from that date, and shall be renewed by the parties upon terms and conditions to be discussed and agreed upon by the parties at that time.
3. This MOU may be terminated by either party by written notice at least six (6) months prior to the termination date. Such notice of termination will not interfere with cooperative programs currently underway. Such programs will be allowed to continue until their conclusion.
Article IX: Binding Effect
1. This MOU is not intended to be legally binding. It merely expresses the intentions and understanding of the parties which will form the basis of any legally binding agreement to be drafted and executed in the future.
2. Notwithstanding the non-binding nature of this MOU, each party acknowledges that it enters into this MOU in good faith and with a high level of commitment towards finding areas of collaboration and concluding the contractual arrangements necessary to cover the work carried out pursuant to the collaboration.
This MOU is prepared in English and in two copies of this MOU. Both copies shall be
deemed as authentic ones, either of which be kept by each party. As witness to their consent this MOU, the appropriate authorities hereto provide their signatures:
EXCELPOLlTAN lNTERNATlONAL COLLEGE SHIH CHIEN UNIVERSITY