Source: Jean Ferox; Anna Uffmann; Anju Peter; Piero Bellanova; IIT Madras; Panjak Kumar; Kishor Bathi; Jacqueline Duwe
Who we are
The Indo-German Centre for Sustainability (IGCS) conducts research on current sustainability challenges and disseminates the knowledge thus generated. In order to achieve that, IGCS offers funding opportunities for individual research exchange between junior and senior researchers from both Germany and India. Another focus of IGCS is knowledge transfer through Summer and Winter Schools carried out in both countries. IGCS premises are located at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in Chennai, India.
India and Germany are committed to promote and implement sustainability. The essence of sustainability is a stable relationship between human activities and the natural world. There is an evident need for further, coherent reform towards full integration of sustainability and environmental concerns in mainstream socio-techno-economic development, especially in securing and protecting our resources such as water and energy, and in infrastructure development considering land use and waste management.
With its vast network of scientists and practitioners and its activities, IGCS is a source of inspiration and skills, conceptual models and standards, as well as best-practice examples for proactive transformation. It offers highly esteemed human capital and solutions for various global challenges affecting India, Germany and other countries.
Purnanjali- IGCS Winter & Summer School 2021 Alumni
"Every day of the two weeks spent virtually during both summer and winter schools had been an enriching experience for me. It was a vibrant space of constant learning and unlearning of aspects of the water sector with people of diverse capacities and interests."
Read more about her experience at: www.igcs-chennai.org/igcs-winter-summer-school-2021-alumni-testimonial/
Applications are now open for our upcoming Winter School 2022. Apply now at: www.igcs-chennai.org/teaching-2/igcs-winter-school/
Thank you for sharing your experience Purnanjali 😊
Great 👍!
Application for Winter School 2022 now OPEN!
We are delighted to announce our next iteration of the Winter School on the topic:
Sustainable Waste Management for a Circular Economy
Date: 21 February to 04 March 2022
The application now opens from 19. October 2021 – 19. November 2021 7 PM CET/11:30 PM IST.
For application follow the link below:
rwthaachen.moveon4.de/locallogin/5c519636d97e90cb538b4570/eng
Interested students can look forward to:
1. Develop a fundamental and holistic understanding of the different waste-to-value processes.
2. Evaluate different technologies for resource, materials and energy recovery from wastes from a sustainability and environmental viewpoint.
3. Propose innovative and circular solutions to practical waste management problems.
For more information, visit our website:
www.igcs-chennai.org/teaching-2/igcs-winter-school/
#sustainabilitychallenge – Taking a step further towards sustainability
Your ideas are too good to be forgotten!
IGCS and motan are carrying out a two-day virtual workshop.
Have you always had ideas on how to revolutionise the way we work and live with plastics in a sustainable way?
Then take part in our #sustainabilitychallenge: ‘Reduce | Re-Use | Recycle | Recover – Challenges and strategies in the handling of plastics’ and make a difference – shape the future with your innovative and sustainable ideas.
Our collaborative efforts are dedicated to helping students from Indian and German academic institutions to develop and foster sustainable ideas. This workshop is a continuation of our joint vision: incorporate innovative and sustainable ideas generation in interdisciplinary research, teaching, training and exchange in the area of sustainable development. Together motan and IGCS would like to motivate and support students to conduct research in the area of plastics and the circular economy.
Thus, IGCS and motan jointly extend an invitation to be a part of our event. Applications are now open.
For more information have a look at our website: www.igcs-chennai.org/igcs-motan-workshop-2021/
Totally recommended!