IGCS- Indo German Center for Sustainability

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.

News

IGCS Organized Indo-German Workshop with IIT and CSIR-CLRI

The IGCS’ Indo-German workshop, in collaboration with CSIR-CLRI and Indian Institute of Technology, Madras was…

IGCS Land Use Focus Area awarded Peri-Cene Project

Dr. Christoph Woiwode, together with Prof. Sudhir Chella Rajan (IIT Madras) has been awarded a…

IGCS Summer School 2024, Announced

IGCS has announced its Summer School for the year of 2024 and it will be…

Announcements

Shivam Dwivedi IGCS Grantee Testimonial | First Multilingual Media Publication

Shivam Dwivedi, was an IGCS grantee from the Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department at Indian…

The IGCS-motan Workshop 2023 Announced

#SustainabilityChallenge – From Waste to Wonder Your ideas are too good to be forgotten. IGCS and motan…

Summer School on Renewable Energy – Start-Up Edition from SIJ at the FH Aachen

The SIJ focuses on research and development in the field of scientific instruments and their applications. Their work encompasses various areas such as physics, engineering, and materials science. The institute collaborates with industry partners, universities, and research institutions to conduct research projects and provide innovative solutions in the field of scientific instrumentation.
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March 12th
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The IGCS workshop, in collaboration with CSIR-CLRI and Indian Institute of Technology, Madras was successfully organized on March 4-5, 2023 at IIT Madras.

Our Focus area “Waste Management” team comprising of Dirk Weichgrebe, PD Dr.-Ing. habil. , Prof. Vinu Ravikrishnan, @Dr. Dr. Mozhiarasi Velusamy have organized the event in collaboration with Dr. Srinivasan SV from CSIR-CLRI.

IGCS, IITM & CSIR-CLRI is proud to have Dr. J Radhakrishnan IAS, Chennai city commissioner as our chief guest for the inaugural session.

We thank our chief guest for his remarkable words and interests for improving the city’s waste management. His interest motivated the entire group to work further forward to create detailed regional concepts towards sustainable waste treatment.

We are happy to have wide range of participants/speakers i.e. #Scientists, Regulatory authorities, #NGOs, Waste management companies etc.

Our panel discussion 1 greatly attracted the participants and supported them to understand the needs of the smart city in the aspect of waste management, moderated by Dr. B. Chandrasekaran, Distinguished Scientist CSIR and Former Director, CSIR-CLRI.

Our panel discussion 2 also provided an opportunity to build joint project concepts moderated by Dr. Dirk Weichgrebe, Leibniz University, Hannover. We as an IGCS team strongly believe that we will take it forward to the next level with the potential speakers to move forward towards achieving SDGs and National missions on waste utilization and cleaner technologies.

We greatly thank Dr. Khulud Alsouleman, Ms. Marissa Catherine, Ms. Nhyiraba Ato-burns, Ms. Anusree N, Ms. Madhumidha M, Ms. Nishanthi R, for helping the event organization.

Our IGCS greatly thank our chief guest, speakers and participants once again for the success of the event.

The IGCS' workshop, in collaboration with CSIR-CLRI and Indian Institute of Technology, Madras was successfully organized on March 4-5, 2023 at IIT Madras.

Our Focus area “Waste Management” team comprising of Dirk Weichgrebe, PD Dr.-Ing. habil. , Prof. Vinu Ravikrishnan, @Dr. Dr. Mozhiarasi Velusamy have organized the event in collaboration with Dr. Srinivasan SV from CSIR-CLRI.

IGCS, IITM & CSIR-CLRI is proud to have Dr. J Radhakrishnan IAS, Chennai city commissioner as our chief guest for the inaugural session.

We thank our chief guest for his remarkable words and interests for improving the city’s waste management. His interest motivated the entire group to work further forward to create detailed regional concepts towards sustainable waste treatment.

We are happy to have wide range of participants/speakers i.e. #Scientists, Regulatory authorities, #NGOs, Waste management companies etc.

Our panel discussion 1 greatly attracted the participants and supported them to understand the needs of the smart city in the aspect of waste management, moderated by Dr. B. Chandrasekaran, Distinguished Scientist CSIR and Former Director, CSIR-CLRI.

Our panel discussion 2 also provided an opportunity to build joint project concepts moderated by Dr. Dirk Weichgrebe, Leibniz University, Hannover. We as an IGCS team strongly believe that we will take it forward to the next level with the potential speakers to move forward towards achieving SDGs and National missions on waste utilization and cleaner technologies.

We greatly thank Dr. Khulud Alsouleman, Ms. Marissa Catherine, Ms. Nhyiraba Ato-burns, Ms. Anusree N, Ms. Madhumidha M, Ms. Nishanthi R, for helping the event organization.

Our IGCS greatly thank our chief guest, speakers and participants once again for the success of the event.
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March 8th
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