Jobs, AI, trade & more: Key outcomes of PM Modi’s Sweden visit

Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Sunday concluded his information astatine the European Round Table for Industry successful Gothenburg, wrapping up a cardinal limb of his five-nation circuit that earlier included high-level visits to the United Arab Emirates and the Netherlands.The May 17 event, co-hosted by Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, marked 1 of the astir salient caller India-Europe engagements successful diplomacy and business.In a station connected X, PM Modi said discussions with concern leaders focused connected strengthening India-Sweden economical ties, peculiarly successful emerging sectors specified arsenic futuristic technologies, probe and development, artificial intelligence, security, and healthcare.

He besides invited European companies to collaborate with India successful areas specified arsenic integer infrastructure, AI, semiconductors, electronics, deep-tech manufacturing, and renewable energy.PM Modi, successful a station connected X, said: “These outcomes volition impart caller vigor and momentum to India-Sweden relations. I americium assured that the India-Sweden concern volition lend meaningfully successful gathering a much prosperous and forward-looking planet.”

Here's what came retired of Sweden visit:MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal listed the cardinal outcomes of PM Modi’s Sweden sojourn successful a station connected X.1. India-Sweden ties elevated to Strategic PartnershipIndia and Sweden adopted a Joint Statement and Joint Action Plan for 2026–2030, elevating bilateral ties to a Strategic Partnership.The model aims to fortify economical and information resilience portion expanding practice successful strategical dialogue, next-generation economical ties, emerging technologies, trusted connectivity, sustainability, and people-to-people engagement.2. India-Sweden Joint Innovation Partnership 2.0 launchedThe inaugural includes plans to found a virtual India-Sweden Joint Science and Technology Centre.The extremity is to deepen collaboration successful artificial intelligence, 6G, quantum computing, sustainable mining, captious minerals, space, and beingness sciences, portion expanding practice successful renewable vigor and astute infrastructure.3. India-Sweden exertion and Artificial Intelligence Corridor endorsedBoth sides endorsed the associated improvement of the India-Sweden Technology and Artificial Intelligence Corridor (SITAC).The inaugural aims to boost collaboration successful AI, integer transformation, and precocious exertion research, portion encouraging stronger partnerships betwixt industries and startups.4. Bilateral commercialized and concern people to treble successful 5 yearsIndia and Sweden agreed to enactment towards doubling bilateral commercialized and concern implicit the adjacent 5 years.The determination is expected to enactment concern growth, amended commercialized facilitation, and beforehand India’s manufacturing ambitions nether the Make successful India programme.5. SME and startup level to boost jobsThe 2 countries volition make an India-Sweden SME and Startup Platform to enactment entrepreneurship, innovation, and employment generation, particularly among youth.6. Tagore-Sweden Lecture Series announcedThe ‘Tagore-Sweden’ Lecture Series volition beryllium launched nether the taxable Vikas Bhi Virasat Bhi.The inaugural is aimed astatine strengthening cultural, intellectual, and people-to-people ties.