TERI School of Advanced Studies (India) is a deemed University of higher learning to meet the needs for a rapidly developing India. But, as a global institution, while it draws strength from the ethos and traditions of India, the University reaches out in sourcing knowledge from across the globe. It also derives major strength from the reservoir of knowledge, experience and research activities of its parent body, TERI. The strength of the university lies in not only on training, capacity building, and education but also identifying and articulating intellectual challenges straddling a number of disciplines of knowledge through different projects leading to development of specific problem-based advanced technologies that help carry benefits to society at large. TERI university’s growing credentials, nationally as well as internationally, continue to attract talents from the best institutions across the world and, today drawn from multidisciplinary and highly specialized fields, offices and regional centres equipped with state-of-the-art facilities, and a diverse range of activities. All activities in TERI School of Advanced Studies move from formulating local-and national-level strategies to suggesting global solutions to critical energy and environment-related issues. TERI School of Advanced Studies is committed towards promoting awareness of environmental damage and degradation of natural resources and working towards finding solutions to these problems with the aim to consolidate its ‘local focus and global reach. The primary goals are to i) Tackle issues of concern to Indian society, and the world at large, and develop innovative and cost-effective solutions; ii) Enhance networking for sustainable interventions; iii) Realize potential for national and international leadership as a knowledge-based agent of change in the fields of energy, environment, other natural resources and sustainable development; and iv) Inspire and reach out to diverse stakeholders for realising a shared vision of global sustainable development that could be translated into action.
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TU will contribute to WP5 (Sustainability assessment and identifying BATs) and co-lead there the tasks on economic evaluation (2b and 2d) and governance (2g), and contribute to other tasks.
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The institute was established in 1963 with the name as Malaviya Regional Engineering College, Jaipur as a joint venture of the Government of India and the Government of Rajasthan, Subsequently; on June 26, 2002 the college has been given the status of National Institute of Technology and on 15 August 2007, Proclaimed Institute of National Importance through Act of Parliament. The Institute is fully funded by Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India. More than 12,000 students have already been graduated since its establishment. MNIT has 13 academic departments and five centre of excellence. The MNIT have about 6000 students and 200 highly qualified faculty members. The institute is involved in various international and national sponsored research and consultancy projects in the area of wastewater, and has active MoUs signed with various universities and institutes in USA, Europe, Canada and in Asian countries.
Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar (IIT Bhubaneswar) will contribute appreciably in this project as the Indian co-coordinating institute. IIT Bhubaneswar established in July 2008 by Govt. of India. In the arena of worldwide infrastructural escalation, School of Infrastructure (SIF) at IIT Bhubaneswar has come up to dedicate excellence in engineering education, creation of knowledge, innovation in research and leadership in professional services. The mission of the School is to offer unbounded academic environment in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, doctoral program, research, and public service. Among the disciplines of SIF, Environmental Engineering Section (EES) is having a highly dedicated team of faculty members with a strong passion for furthering the cause of teaching and research. They welcome dedicated students for pursuing their cutting-edge research and offer state of the art consultancy in the area of Environmental Engineering which strengthens IIT Bhubaneswar’s service to the nation. Research topics of the EES are spread over a wide spectrum of water, wastewater and solid waste management. Innovative technologies and research deliverables in terms of sustainable application is the prime objective of EES.
Indian Institute of Technology Madras is one of the pioneer technology, teaching and research institutes in India. It was established in 1956 as one of the Institute of higher education in India with the support from German Government. It has established itself as a pioneer institute for research, teaching and industrial consultancy in the country. The institute is involved in various international projects in the field of water infrastructure and has MoU signed with various European Organizations and Universities such as DAAD, ESTP France, KTH Sweden, etc., IIT Madras is hosting the Indo-German centre for Sustainability (IGCS). IIT Madras is one among the top institutes with excellent research facilities and multitude of international research programs. IIT Madras is ranked as the best Engineering Institute in India ever since the national ranking of academic institutes in India started. IIT Madras is also ranked as the second best academic institute in the country.
IIT Roorkee has its roots in the Roorkee College which was set up in 1847. The college and thereafter technical university laid the foundation of modern engineering education and the use of civil engineering practices in the infrastructure development of the country. On September 21, 2001, the university was converted into IIT. It has 18 academic departments, one academic centre and 7 academic service centres, and three centre of excellence. The IIT Roorkee have about 7000 students and 400 faculty members. The institute is involved in various international projects in the field of water infrastructure and has MoU signed with various European Organizations and Universities such as DAAD, ESTP France, KTH Sweden, University of Applied Sciences, Dresden Germany etc.
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur) will play a major role in this project as the Indian co-ordinating institute. IIT Kharagpur, established as the first Indian Institute of Technology back in May 1950 is one of the premier institutes of technology in India (DST national ranking three as a research institute for the period of 2002-2014). School of Environmental Science and Engineering is set-up in the institute since last 5 years, which has excellent in-house state of the art facilities for research and industrial consultancy. Various reputed faculties are attached with the school and have rendered years of service to the nation. Innovative technologies and research deliverables in terms of sustainable application for the mass is the prime objective. The school is actively participating in the programmes of National interest. Mega projects such as the ‘National Mission for Clean Ganga’, ‘Smart Cities Mission’ to name a few are the projects to which the school has continual contribution.
Ben Gurion University (BGU) is a public, research university in Israel. The main campus is in Be’er Sheva city, hosting ~20,000 undergraduate students, studying towards various degrees from social, humanities and economics to medicine, natural sciences and engineering. The research will take place in BGU’s Sede-Boqer campus. Uniquely located in the heart of the desert, it houses the Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research (BIDR), where the fields of agriculture, biotechnology, ecology, solar energy and water are studied in the context of dry regions within three institutes. One of them, the Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research (ZIWR), is academic home for more than twenty independent researchers and one hundred graduate and post-graduate researchers coming from around the world, focusing on different aspects of water science and technology. The department of desalination and water treatment (DWT) within the ZIWR focuses on various water treatment processes with an emphasis on membrane-based water treatment processes of all kinds. This work covers the whole range of development from basic research at the lab bench up to semi-industrial pilot studies in our pilot facility treating processes up to 1-2 m3/day. Relevant to this project, is that we have four different setups in the pilot at different scales that can carry out electromembrane processes.
Cambi is a leading provider of technology for the conversion of sludge to renewable energy and high-quality biosolids. The company was originally founded in 1989. Today Cambi has more than 125 employees and is represented with offices in 9 different countries.
BioKube is a company registered in Denmark in 2004 and is specialized in the development and manufacturing of biological wastewater treatment systems. BioKube has installed 3.600 wastewater treatment systems in Denmark and globally, in 46 countries. BioKubes systems are developed and certified according to the European standards in CEN 12566-3 and CEN 12566-6. The systems are ongoing enhanced and developed with focus on fulfilling the United Nation SDG no 6. The systems have also achieved Environmental Technology Verification of their use in summer houses or vacation hotels with long pauses in the incoming wastewater.