Nordic Centre in India was super excited to partner with the echo networkAkademiet for de Tekniske Videnskaber, and Tata Institute for Genetics and Society, India to deliver the first ever #SAGE program along with Innovation Centre Denmark Bangalore Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment Novo Nordisk Foundation. 

Martin Bech Joseph Kurian Søren Tranberg Hansen Eske Bo RosenbergRakesh Mishra Pankaj Gupta

The #SAGE (Sustainability Ambassadors Global Exchange) program is a customised programme in the area of sustainability for Indian and Nordic post graduate students from social, natural, physical, and engineering sciences that started in June 2023 and ended with a Network Summit that was held in Bengaluru in August 2023. Students got an opportunity to meet fellow ambassadors, the junior ambassadors and network members, present their work, and plan long-term projects together based on the outcomes of the previous weeks of work done virtually. The programme was an immersive and interactive programme to understand cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary research surrounding current on-ground issues facing India. The programme consisted of lectures, field trips, stakeholder and community interactions, and networking events - both online and in India.

We were gratified to see #Nordic #students from Lund University  DTU - Technical University of Denmark Aarhus University Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen Copenhagen Business School Syddansk Universitet - University of Southern Denmark Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) along with a student from Tel Aviv University participate in the programme as Senior Ambassadors along with #Indian students from National Dairy Research Institute, Azim Premji University, Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar, Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar , National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), International Crops Research Institute For The Semi-Arid Tropics (Icrisat), Central University Of Rajasthan, University of Calicut, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, and National Institute of Fashion Technology, India.

Christabel Royan is looking forward to continuing the collaboration and working with the very engaging team of the echo network - Shannon Olsson Tina Patrao Digangana Mukherjee Akshata Pradhan. Your vision, insight into contemporary environmental challenges and your drive to address them in an inclusive and holistic manner is an #inspiration!

Many thanks to Jakob Williams Ørberg for connecting Nordic Centre in India to The Echo Network

Photo courtesy - the echo network