This network aims to generate collaborative UK,India and Sri Lanka research and business development in low carbon technology. This project strand will provide opportunities and networking events to share ideas and to build capacity, competitions for the young low carbon scientist and the young low carbon entrepreneur of the year.

Networking events between experts in the field of green buildings in the UK/India/Sri Lanka to share best practice with the objective of developing capacity and changing policies and structures for delivering carbon reduction.

UK-India Young Scientists Networking Conference

India and the UK are global players in science and technology with an international reputation for cutting edge research and innovation. Climate Change is one of the biggest challenges facing mankind and its impact will affect us all, inevitably some more than others.  We therefore need to build substantially on emerging areas of scientific research, particularly low carbon technologies and new and renewable energy research.

The British Council has, over the years, facilitated several initiatives and programmes to raise global awareness on climate change and the environment to different target groups. The India-UK Young Scientists Networking Conference aims to promote networking of young research scientists in both countries by providing a forum for exchange of scientific knowledge and information. The meeting will also help stimulate and accelerate innovation towards sustainable research collaboration.

First India-UK Young Scientists Networking Conference on Low Carbon Technologies and Energy Research was organised in Chennai on 23-24 March 2009.

The Second Young Indian Scientists Networking Conference will be held in Kolkata on 2 and December 2009. This conference is aimed at promoting and facilitating researchers working in premier Indian Institutions to collaborate and partner with their Young UK counterparts in premier UK Universities and labs. To see the list of delegates click here.

To read the programme click here.

For more information on this conference, write to Radhika Singh

Wales India Low Carbon Technologies Programme

Four top Indian academics from prestigious institutions visited Wales in the first week of July 2009 to meet counterparts in Welsh universities and to discuss collaboration on low carbon technologies

The visit, arranged jointly by the Welsh Assembly Government and the British Council, followed up a visit to India earlier in the year by representatives from the Low Carbon Research Institute (LCRI).

The academic group comprised of Dr Biswajit Ghosh, a Professor of Energy Science and Technology at Jadavpur University who holds the university’s highest degree of DSc (Engg.) for his original scientific and outstanding contribution in the field of electrical contacting technology; Ashok Lall, an architect and Cambridge University graduate, whose firm is committed to an architectural practice based on the principles of environmental sustainability and social responsibility and has won a number of awards for its work in this area;. Professor P J Paul, a professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in the Department of Aerospace who has made significant contributions in the area of engineering, renewable energy, and in particular biomass gasification and combustion;. Dr Debabrata Das, a Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, he has also received the International Association of Hydrogen Energy (IAHE) Akira Matsui Award 2008 for important contribution to hydrogen research.

During the week the visitors travelled across Wales, visiting a range of institutions to cement relationships and gain an insight in to some of the world class research that Wales offers in this field. They had an opportunity to visit facilities at the University of Glamorgan, OpTIC Technium, the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, Cardiff School of Engineering and Swansea University’s School of Engineering.

The aim will now be to develop the collaboration more strongly and to explore joint projects in areas of expertise.