The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Sri Lanka and the Fine Arts Department of the University of Jaffna have been partnering in a wide variety of education initiatives, including exhibition tours, guest lectures, and the internship programme for final year students of the Department since December 2019. This MoU formalizes an established partnership, and is entered into with the intention of facilitating future joint initiatives and collaborative projects between the Fine Arts Department of the University of Jaffna and the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Sri Lanka. This MoU fronts an enhanced cooperation between the two institutions extending to all areas of mutual interest, shared knowledge and expertise, and research and scholarship across a wide range of initiatives and/or activities related, but not limited to the visual arts, architecture and design, photography and the moving image. The partners also agree to share resources and spaces when required as a support structure for collaborative projects. These support structures will be decided upon collaboratively, taking into consideration individual capacities.

The broad objectives of this MoU are:

• * Exchange of academic staff, students, researchers, artists, and other professionals for the planning and implementation of visiting lectures, curriculum research and development, research initiatives, internship and training programmes, and curatorial research and exhibitions (where relevant).
• * Strengthening academic and research potentials through joint research initiatives, teaching, internship programmes, training programmes, symposiums, conferences, workshops, and other such activities.