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.
IGCS postdoc Christoph Woiwode conducted two more workshops in the Sustainability Workshop Series for the Katchipattu Nook near Chennai on 15th and 25th May.
Read more about the workshop and our goals with the project here:
www.igcs-chennai.org/dr-woiwode-conducts-sustainability-workshop-series-for-the-katchipattu-nook/
IGCS-fellow Anica Roßmöller, affiliated with the Institute of Political Science at the University of Münster participated in a research stay at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Chennai, India between 3. March to 30. April 2022 for their work on the theme "The role of faith in the localization of environmental SDGs in India" under the IGCS focus area of Land Use / Rural and Urban Development. Special thanks to Prof. Santosh R., IIT Madras, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, and IGCS postdoc Dr. Christoph Woiwode for helping Anica with their stay in Chennai.
Anica was an alumnus of the IGCS Winter School 2020 who was granted a research scholarship to continue their work on their doctoral thesis.
You can read more about their experiences in our latest edition of IGCS Experience Reports, which you can also download below:
www.igcs-chennai.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ExperienceReports_230524_AnicaR-webcompressed.pdf
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#India #Germany #Exchange #Chennai #Muenster #Aachen #SDG #Faith #Environment #Sustainability #Norms
IGCS Area Coordinator for the focus area Land Use / Rural and Urban Development Development at IIT Madras, Dr. Ashwin Mahalingam, and former IIT Madras student Pokhraj Nayak, affiliated with the Building Technology & Construction Management (BTCM) Group, Department of Civil Engineering at IIT Madras have published their policy brief titled "How Green will Chennai be? Understanding and Reducing the Carbon Footprint due to Residential and Commercial Construction over the next two decades." As India urbanizes rapidly, buildings account for significant energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. The construction industry, particularly in cities like Chennai, contributes a quarter of CO2 emissions. Without mitigation efforts, these emissions will escalate, but recycling materials, choosing energy-efficient alternatives, and employing available technologies can help reduce carbon emissions and address the environmental impact of urbanization.
You can read more in the published policy brief, which you can also download below:
www.igcs-chennai.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IGCS_PolicyBrief_2301-WebCompressed.pdf
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#India #Germany #IITMadras #Chennai #Environment #ClimateChange #Co2 #CivilEngineering #LandUse #Sustainability
Are you interested in research on sustainability issues? IGCS awards scholarships to students and researchers whose projects on sustainability issues benefit from a research exchange to India or Germany.
Our IGCS fellow Prof. Dr. Elisa T. Bertuzzo, conducted exchange research with us at IIT, Chennai, India, from December 2021 to February 2022.
Learn more about what you can expect from the opportunity and how you can apply to our scholarship opportunities from our latest experience report publication, available in the link below:
www.igcs-chennai.org/prof-dr-elisa-t-bertuzzo-conducts-exchange-research-at-iit-madras-on-periphe...
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