Partnering for Success: Advancing Sustainability Research and Education in India
The project promotes collaboration between IIM Bangalore and University of North Carolina on sustainability-related education. e project received the prestigious 'Obama-Singh 21stCentury Knowledge InitiativeAwards'. e initiative strengthens collaboration and builds partnerships between American and Indian institutions of higher education in priority fields. IIM Bangalore is one of the eight institutions that are the recipients of the prestigious award. Each project will receive an award of approximately $250,000 that can be utilized over a three-year period, with the objectives of cultivating educational reform, fostering economic growth, generating shared knowledge to address global challenges, and developing junior faculty at Indian and American institutions of higher learning. As part of the project, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School in collaboration with Wipro organized the Symposium on "Advancing Sustainability Research and Education" in January 2015. |
Project Team
P D Jose, U Dinesh Kumar and Vasanthi Srinivasan
Sponsor
United States - India Education Foundation (USIEF)
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Project Status
Ongoing (Initiated in August 2013-August 2016)
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