SDGs and Covid-19 Pandemic: A Webinar
First ever webinar on Impact of COVID-19 on SDGs was held on 17th April. The webinar was organised jointly by TERRE Policy Centre, MIT-WPU and Tata Institute of Social Sciences. The focus was on impact of COVID-19 on Food security and SDG 1 and 2. Dr. Rajendra Shende, Chairman, TERRE Policy Centre gave a keynote start to the webinar by giving a bri...
Webinar on portal developed for helping the Stranded Students in COVID-19
Outreach S2S (Support to Stranded Students) 7th April 2020 India's soft power running faster than COVID-19. 1 hr for need assessment 3 hr to develop and Launch portal. More than 16,000 users in 24 hrs. 80 institutions participated in zoom meeting. All India Council for Technical Education & Terre Policy Centre in action. 'Social Distancing with...
New Campuses in SCCN
Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences was established in 1986 as an Engineering College in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. It was granted an autonomous status in 2000 and in 2004, it was declared as Deemed-to-be University by the University Grants Commission (UGC) in recognition of its academic excellence by the Ministry of Human Resources Developm...
Leaving No One behind and Reaching the Furthest Behind the First during COVID19
Number of Deaths have gone viral, but modern technology-based solutions can also go viral 19th March 2020. It has been spreading at ferocious speed. World in 2019 expressed such spread as 'it has gone viral'. The tweet, post or video going 'viral' means in short time huge number of people noticed it. WHO release today (19th March 2020) sated that ...
Hack for Sustainable Future
SCCN is proud to partner with MIT - World Peace University for initiating students to come up with the solutions to major environmental problems like high water and energy consumption, increasing carbon footprint rates, solar panel maintenance and battery issues of E-vehicles. MIT is organising a hackathon - HACKMITWPU, a 1...
Nature-based solutions offer the best way to achieve human well-being, tackle climate change and protect our living planet. Yet nature is in crisis, as we are losing species at a rate 1,000 times greater than at any other time in recorded human history and one million species face extinction. In addition to important moments for decision makers, in...
India was the host for the largest ever negotiations ever in the history of the international Convention related to Migration. With 2,550 participants including 263 delegates representing nearly 90 countries, 50 representatives from United Nations agencies, 200 representatives of NGOs, and over 100 members of both national and international media i...
Team SCCN was invited to the Universities in Gujarat for the interaction on what practical contributions that youth can make to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by hands-on work in the respective campuses. The interactions were NOT on what are the SDGs, and what is the global status of the progress on SDGs. Nor were they on change in curriculum...
On Lantern Festival with full moon,nCoVirus is yet to be eliminated.The nationwide war against virus continues !Stop eating wildlife, block the source of virusLegislation cannot wait anymore ! Universities in China are closed but not the minds of the students. Their minds are lit in the lantern festival though they remained silent. Marking the...
The land of Asiatic Lions, the white desert of Rann of Kutch, colourful handicrafts, festivals, food, unique culture, and its many religious sites – Gujarat, has decided to transform its universities into Smart and Sustainable campuses. Smart Campus Cloud Network (SCCN), a network of universities with currently 74 members in its pilot phase that en...
A Bottom-Up Approach Towards Migratory Species Conservation: "Migratory species are part of our planetary. They connect all of us on the planet together. We welcome them to our home". To effectively mainstream biodiversity conservation and effectively manage the conservation of species, the significance of mobilizing joint efforts from the general...
A Decade of Delivery begins with Decisive Digitalization 2020 marks the beginning of the decade that would end by making or breaking the global resolve on SDGs. I must say that clock has started ticking. Sound of that tik-tok is deafening. It's not just an alarm. It is a siren. Four years of the fifteen years of the implementation of global goals ...
Making the SDGs a matter of Speed and Scale WBCSD (World Business Council for Sustainable Development), a platform for business organisations to respond to sustainability challenges recently published the article to mark the beginning of final decade to attain the SDGs. WBCSD calls it Decade of Action. Read the full article https://bit.ly/2SG...
Digital India is a Dream. E-waste is a RealityNetwork of Smart Campus can realize the Dream by Managing the Reality MIT-World Peace University (MIT-WPU) of India has become the first university to launch e-Waste Management program across their campuses through participative approaches. Students and Faculty have begun collection and segregatio...
Cooling from 5500 deg C to 10 deg C without using fossil fuel. Surprised? Read below…. Mr. Hajime Yabase from Waseda University, a member of SCCN shared the technology details of solar air-conditioning, natural refrigerants, heating and cooling refrigerants, and H2 energy usage to the university students of MITADT also member of SCCN. Mr. Yabase is...
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