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Announcement – 2nd Indo-German Start-up Bootcamp: Calling Social Enterprises from the Transport & Mobility Sector

Following the successful first Indo-German Start-up Bootcamp conducted in July 2016 in Berlin, GIZ together with their partners Bosch, World Resources Institute (WRI), Social Impact Lab, IIM Calcutta Innovation Park and Intellecap are geared to conduct the second Indo-German Start-up Bootcamp which will take place in India and will bring together entrepreneurs from India and Germany to explore cooperation and grow their social impact.

Visit of Prof. Girish Nath Jha, Vice-President for International Affairs, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi to University of Cologne (Germany)

Prof. Girish Nath Jha, Vice-President for International Affairs, Professor of Computational Linguistics and ChairpersonSpecial Center for Sanskrit Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, recently visited University of Cologne (Germany) on 11-12 November 2016, for further talks in intensifying academic cooperation between UoC and JNU.

Guest Lecturership visit of Prof. Ranjit Mitra, School for Planning and Architecture, New Delhi to University of Cologne

Inauguration of new German Development Cooperation Office in New Delhi, India

The German Ambassador to India, Dr Martin Ney, together with Shaktikanta Das, Secretary, Indian Ministry of Finance, Department of Economic Affairs inaugurated the German Development Cooperation Office (GDCO) in India – housing the German development agencies GIZ, KfW and DEG today in New Delhi.

University of Cologne Summer School “Natural and Cultural Heritage” at JNU, New Delhi

The University of Cologne Summer School in “Natural and Cultural Heritage” is organised under the guidance of Professor Dr. Peter Dannenberg & Dr. Alexander Follmann along with ten students from Department of Geography, University of Cologne.

DWIH Regular Activity of RWTH Aachen, University of Cologne and Indian Institutes of Higher Education

Kochi Initiative on Non-Conventional Wastewater Treatment bags Platinum at Skoch Award 2016

The innovative project on Non-Conventional Wastewater Treatment of Kochi Municipal Corporation (KMC) was awarded the prestigious ‘Skoch – Platinum’ Award during the 45th Skoch Summit organised at Hyderabad. This innovative project is supported by GIZ’s sanitation project ‘Support to National Urban Sanitation Policy-II’ (SNUSP-II). The project of KMC had been qualified amongst the “Top 100 Projects in India”.