Around 32 PhD students from multi-disciplinary background will participate in a
three-week long summer school BVIEER Pune, from September 5 to 23.
Around 32 PhD students from multi-disciplinary background
from Germany, South East Asia and India will participate in a three-week long summer
school on sustainable habitats in Bharati Vidyapeeth Institute of Environment Education
and Research (BVIEER) Pune, from September 5 to 23.
This will guide them in introducing the concept of sustainable development, its
approach and implementation in urban contexts.
Organised by the German International Cooperation (GIZ), the topics includes the
issue of santation, low cost housing, energy efficiency, which will be addressed
within the topic of urban sustainability concepts and the national urban policy
framework, Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), at different
locations in India. Apart from Pune, similar summer schools are held in Bangalore,
Mysore and Kochi.
Erach Bharucha director BVIEER said that the programme will be in the process of
discussion and it will be carried out in exciting ways of learning. The students
will be taken on field trips from Pune to Mulshi to understand the changes in land
use pattern. The key person in the summer school sustainable habitat is Prof Frauke
Krass, head, department of Geography, Cologne University, Germany.
It aims to contribute towards sustainable development in India through bridging
the communication gap within research and its implementation at policy level. Through
improved communication and networking, the mutual benefits could be achieved at
different levels, he said.
Kranti Yardi, faculty, BVIEER said that the three week programme will introduce participants
to the areas of governance (think globally, act locally), concepts for urban sustainability
and its implementation in India and the world and thirdly on the concepts for santitation,
waste management and low-cost housing and energy efficiency.
It intends to meet the requirements of the current labour market and responds to
Indias needs for creative and decisive intellectuals, future decision-makers and
representatives of their country within the increasingly international governance framework.
She pointed out that some objectives and challenges for sustainable habitats in
the country includes the understanding of complex topic and policy frameworks for
urban policy, specifically linking with national sanitation, housing, energy policy
towards a strategy for implementation, transcending life worlds of different classes
and castes by common action research and offering international experiences, among
others.
TRIVIA
This years summer school in India will be the seventh within this framework after
Vietnam, Egypt, Brazil, Peru and India The focus will be on strengthening sustainable
links between researchers, businesspeople, policy makers and development practitioners
from the countries involved
THE PROGRAMME
The first week will comprise of political framework, state-of-the art methods,
peer-learning techniques. And travel to research sites In the second week, the participants
will carry out action research tasks and discuss the results with experts in the
third week, three learning-dialogues, amongst others with leading German scientists
will conclude in the presentation of the results in a public colloquium
Courtesy: Times of India
