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Overview Though water in its normal form is liquid, there are solid facts about water. They are fascinating but fatally worrisome. Only 2.5 percent of the total water available on our planet is fresh water, which is essential for most of the life on the earth including plant-life. Of that only 30 percent is accessible in rivers, lakes and ground wa...

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Climate Pioneer Schools Partnership

Operation Earth-China and TERRE Policy Centre-India have launched China-wide 'Climate Pioneer Schools Partnership' to contribute to mitigate climate change and Sustainable Development Goal #3, 7, 13 and 17 in January 2019 at Beijing. The partnership will also contribute to President Xi's urgency for 'Ecological Civilization' through activ...

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SCCN in leading Universities of China

TERRE Policy Centre-India, UNESCO-Paris and China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF)-China organised a round table on Smart Campus Cloud Network-SCCN on 25th January 2019 in Beijing. CBCGDF has agreed to be China-hub for SCCN to outreach to Chinese universities High level Representatives from Key universities (Pekin...

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Youth Solutions Report on SDGs

The UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)-Youth launched a report showcasing 50 youth-led solutions in support of the SDGs. The report examines challenges facing youth-led innovation for the SDGs and proposes recommendations to create more integrated ecosystems of support for youth change makers. The Youth Solutions Report, a flagship...

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SDGs and Digital technologies

UN Secretary-General on UN Priorities for 2019  UN Secretary General tells the world to : "dramatically accelerate efforts on key 21st-century challenges, namely: the fight against climate change; achieving the SDGs; and stepping up new technologies that can "turbocharge" this work" UN would hold the High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation for...

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Garden of Sustainable Living

The oldest attendee at this year's World Economic Forum in Davos that concluded recently was 92-year-old broadcaster, Sir David Attenborough. He told the gathering "The Garden of Eden is no more". This verdict of Sir Attenborough on the destruction inflicted by humanity on the natural world meant that we cannot even dream of the good times. He sket...

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Campus story

Building Campus Sustainability through energy analytics Educational campuses are generally seen as the altar for teaching, learning and dissemination of knowledge. However, in recent times campuses have also started to move in the direction of addressing sustainability issues in terms of curriculum, research and operational aspects. With the advent...

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SIIB Director, Dr. Asmita Chitnis

As per the mandate given by the Ministry of Human Resource Development and the University Grants Commission (UGC), SCCN is poised to facilitate dialogue and sharing of ideas amongst students and faculty of various campuses in the country so as to share and implement the best practices in order to make the educational campuses smart. The committee h...

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History repeats: Through Digital Routes

Luis de Castro - a new Vasco da Gama When Luís Afonso de Castro met me in Geneva, at International Trade Union's cafeteria and requested a copy of my powerpoint presentation that I had just delivered in World Summit on Information Society, I thought it is just one of those mundane requests from the young enthusiast.  This one turned out to be ...

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CampusTime

Transforming communication for empowering millions of youth "Belief is the magic key that unlocks everything" - Orrin Woodward At CampusTime, we started up with one belief of transforming communication at Campuses and empowering millions of Students. Honestly, this belief has kept us going and we have achieved some incredible milestones as a young ...

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DigiLocker – How can Educational Institutions leverage it?

An enthralling article by Amit Ranjan, 'Nandan Nilekani of PM Narendra Modi' To avail any government service today, you need to visit the corresponding government office and provide few documents – your proof of identification, proof of address and other supporting documents. Imagine a future where you do not have to visit a government office to av...

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Education, the Priority !

​Education must boost Opportunities for One and for All The world has moved on to perceive 'Education' not just as a 'Human right' but as a biggest driver for 'Development'. Education in the recent years has become 'voice' for timid and the voiceless. Perhaps, it has now become a strong bridge between social and economical strata not only in an ind...

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Energy Consumers become Prosumers

How far we have reached? Traditionally, from the inception of commercially availed electricity, we have been utilizing electricity form the grid. The electricity has always flowed one way to our doorstep from some remotely situated gigantic power station. But from the past decade and a half, the business model of the whole energy industry is being ...

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Building Smart Buildings

Technology trends for Smart Buildings Young entrepreneurs in the field of architecture, energy, and technology are getting oriented towards a sustainable approach. The opportunity for smart buildings is clear. But for many young start-ups, harnessing it requires a better understanding of real estate trends. Many startups understand and benefit from...

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Visionary campus

Zeal Education Society (ZES) is established in year 1996 by Hon. Shri S. M. Katkar, an eminent industrialist committed to noble cause of education. It religiously runs on the mission to enrich the knowledge and enhance the facilities to help the zeal students to structure their careers to the glorious future and to develop the students as a source ...

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SCCN Member is not only Smart but Clean

Sri Shanmugha College of Engineering and Technology (SSCET), affiliated to Anna University and nestled in Pullipalayam on Sankari-Tiruchengode highway of Salem district ranked 4th position in Swachh Campus Ranking 2018 (Swachh means Clean in Hindi - Indian language) for maintaining, promoting and encouraging the culture of SWACHHATA (Cleanliness) a...

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IISER campus at its Eco-front

0 Advanced issue found▲1 Eco-Champions of IISER Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research PRUTHA is a group of people at IISER campus, Pune who are interested in environmental activities, primarily in making the campus more eco-friendly and increasing awareness about green issues. It was begun by members of the 2008 and 2010 batch wh...

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State of Machine Learning 2018

 Combining Data Science with Predictive Analytics In 2017, we witnessed data science making a pathway for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) at center stage of the technology cycle. Artificial Intelligence and machine learning (ML) had been trending topics for the whole year. AI applications have been increasingly used in n...

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Monitor and Assess

SCCN smart energy meters installed in MITAOE  7th September 2018 has been marked as a stepping stone in the history of MIT Academy of Engineering (MITAOE), Alandi. The campus has installed FIVE smart energy meters in five different locations of the campus to monitor and assess the real-time energy consumption. The campus will soon install a se...

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Number speaks for itself

Behind every number there is a story. Here is ours… ​Behind every digit there is a definite story. Our digit, as I write this piece, is 56. And the story behind it is two-fold. First, it is about the digitalisation of the future. Second, it is the number which signals to grow rapidly. It also radiates the hopes for the attainment of Sustainable Dev...

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SCCN in Fergusson College

On 3rd September 2018, TERRE Policy Centre and Fergusson College (FC) interacted about SCCN implementation in FC campus. Dr. Ravindrasinh Pardeshi, Principal took an active participation in the discussion, sharing the vision and potential areas to carry out SCCN activities in the campus. To give the brief introduction of past and existing socio-env...

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Y2Y Dialogue

1 Advanced issue found▲  Three Indian Youth selected as Volunteers for the first-ever research field expedition 'Wildness Training and Reintroduction of Giant Panda' to China on full sponsorship Enter heading here... Smart Campus Cloud Network (SCCN) is not just confined to the boundaries of its campus, but it goes around and beyond its b...

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CST Bhutan in SCCN

Mountain Kingdom for SDGs Bhutan, pioneering in the concept of 'Gross National Happiness' (GNH) index is the happiest country in Asia. Globally, it holds the eighth rank in Happiest Country and the second fastest growing GDP. More than that, Bhutan is known to be exceptionally guarding its environment and cultural identity. Resting in this personif...

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Selection on its Final Lap

Wildness Training and Reintroduction of Giant Panda  After receiving amazing responses in the first round of application, TERRE selected 11 deserving candidates to contest in the second round, i.e. Video submission of their opinions on current environmental issues (including climate change and biodiversity. The second round was indeed, a tough...

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Smart Buildings

Leading the Way in Energy Efficiency In a world where many things are becoming automated, it's no surprise that smart buildings are on the rise across the country. Using intricate technologies, these buildings are able to sense and react to the people in them. Air conditioning and heating systems, air quality, security tools and more can be automat...

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Species connecting Countries

A Partnership for Environment Giant Pandas have been the center of attention for quite some time now and for all the right reasons. From being considered as one of the cutest animals in the world, a symbol of peace and harmony, and the ambassador of goofiness and laziness, to being a success story in the relentless effort for its conservation, the ...

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Y2Y Network for Environment

On 25th July 2018, TERRE organized Press Conference in Pune (India) to announce the joint environment research expedition 'Wildness Training and Reintroduction of Giant Panda' with Operation Earth (China), which will be organized in the first week of October 2018.  TERRE Policy Centre (India) and Operation Earth (China) have joined hands to fo...

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Launch of Campus Sustainability Report

 Every year World Environment Day brings people around the world on a common mission to move one more step forward to contribute to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). TERRE Policy Centre, not-for-profit an organisation dedicated to cause of Sustainable Development, launched on this occasion the first ever Campus Sustainability Report develo...

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Brain is getting decoded

Get Future-Ready Intelligence is all about the symphony of music and dance of the neurons in brain cells. Neurons are the Nerve Cells specialised to carry "messages" through an electrochemical process. That sounds like reducing the most smart process that ever existed in the humans (or to that matter in any living being) to some trivial mechanism. ...

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Looking to the Future

Enter heading here...The state of machine learning in 2018 Utilizing data science, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning (ML) as a process is increasingly popular and being embraced across a wide range of industries and applications. Educational campuses are advancing and getting inclined to use open source applications and data manage...

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First Joint Field Research Expedition

0 Advanced issue found▲1   'India-China Friendship Association for Environment' ICFAE 1 Advanced issue found▲️  ​Indian students will be sponsored to join the environment research expedition 'Wildness Training and Reintroduction of Giant Panda' in China ​TERRE Policy Centre (India) and Operation Earth (China) have joined hands t...

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Flowering Kaas Community

1 Advanced issue found▲1 Annual Report Card 2017: Solid-Rock determination enter heading here... History was made in 2012, when UNESCO's World Heritage Committee inscribed 39 sites of the Western Ghats of India as World Natural Heritage (WNH). It was the first ever-serial nomination of so many sites along the 1600 kms of rock-hard mountai...

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Campus Speaks

Enter your text here ... Transforming Campus through Internship Programmes Smart Campus is an intranet of the education campuses of schools, colleges, institutes, and universities committed to make a tangible contribution to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Unique value addition of the network is the deployment of the digita...

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India-China Friendship Association for Environment

0 Advanced issue found▲  CLICK HERE for the Application form (The first round of selection process) 0 Advanced issue found▲  'Wildness Training and Reintroduction for Giant Panda' Environment Field Research Expedition We are looking for THREE open-minded and environmentally-driven Indian candidates between the age group of 18 to...

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Automatic monitoring with IoT

With the constant changes in the technological front, the modern appliances and products are becoming more complex. To monitor them, skilled operators are required but they are becoming scarce with time. Automated monitoring is multifaceted. The core benefit in a way is having real time information about which appliances are running or not running....

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Beat Plastic Pollution in Campuses

Let us make Difference "The oceans will house more plastics than fish by 2050", warned the United Nations based on the research presented at World Economic Forum. Stark reality faced by the world is that only 5% of the plastics are recycled effectively, while 40% end up in landfill and 30% in fragile ecosystems such as, oceans. Much of the remainin...

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Campus story

Building Campus Sustainability through energy analytics Educational campuses are generally seen as the altar for teaching, learning and dissemination of knowledge. However, in recent times campuses have also started to move in the direction of addressing sustainability issues in terms of curriculum, research and operational aspects. With the advent...

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Dawn of 4th Industrial Revolution

Getting your campus ready to go! We are waking up to the dawn of the fourth industrial revolution, which is characterized by a fusion of technologies that is blurring the lines between the physical, digital, and biological spheres. Each revolution has seen quantum jump in improvement in well-being of the life of the people, called as 'development'....

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A2K and A2Sk

0 Advanced issue found▲  Youth, Access to Knowledge, and the SDGs: Strategies for Building Youth Skills in Digital Technologies Building on the experience of many worldwide initiatives such as UNESCO's YouthMobile Initiative that introduces young people to computer science programming (learning-to-code) and problem solving (coding-to-lear...

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Experts from Waseda, Japan

0 Advanced issue found▲  Waseda University visits TERRE and MIT, India Dr. Kiyoshi Saito and Prof. Hajime Yabase from Waseda University, Japan visited TERRE Policy Centre and MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering on 5th and 6th March 2018. Dr. Saito gave special focus on energy efficiency in refrigeration, air-conditioning and heat pum...

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Message to Global Youth

This Moment is Your Moment Reaching out to youth is increasingly important for the United Nations and many other organizations that rely on the creativity and dynamism of young people to fill international agreements such as the Paris Climate Change Agreement and the Globals Goals with life. "What we need right now – in this moment – are the ideas,...

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New campuses

Maharishi Markandeshwar (Deemed to be University) is a leading University in North India and has become a symbol of quality education in technical, medical and other professional streams. Accredited by NAAC as Grade "A" university, its industry-oriented education system makes its students leaders in the professional world. Since its inception, the ...

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CSR way to SDGs through SCCN

Public Private Partnership for Sustainable Development Youth is the major part of public, where innovative ideas and market expertise thrive!! 17 SDGs for 'people and planet' are about achieving development goals from an economic, social and environmental perspective. Aligning CSR policy to the UN's sustainable development goals, Confederation of I...

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TERRE meets ITU in WSIS

0 Advanced issue found▲1 SCCN New Brochure launched byDeputy Secretary General of ITU In the grand WSIS forum 2018, TERRE was privileged to speak on 'Youth Access to Knowledge and SDGs strategy' and introduce its youth-oriented project called Smart Campus Cloud Network (SCCN). SCCN was highlighted during the joint-session with UNESCO explainin...

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Connecting the Unconnected

SCCN in Geneva on invitation by UNESCO Leaving no one behind The Digital Revolution, like industrial revolution and agricultural revolution heralded the new era. It totally transformed the way the computing is done, information is stored and communicated. It marked the arrival of information age. The revolution has two distinct dimensions. First, i...

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E-waste hype!!

1 Advanced issue found▲ Ministry of Electronics and IT invites suggestions on Prevention of Leakage and Proper Recycling of E-wasteEnter heading here... Hon'ble PM has emphasized the need for creating awareness for environmental issues under "Swach Digital Bharat' during his address at NASSCOM event on 01.03.2015. On the direction of Hon'ble P...

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TERRE in WSIS

0 Advanced issue found▲  Leveraging ICTs to Build Information and Knowledge Societies for SDGs TERRE Policy Centre is invited by UNESCO to be a partner in the panel discussion in World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) 2018, which is the world's largest annual gathering of the 'ICT for Development' community. The evident driving po...

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Campus Story

Environmental Sustainability Addressing one of the world's most pressing problems, climate change, requires developing scientific research and taking personal responsibility for our actions. These requirements live at the heart of sustainability at Warren Wilson, North Carolina where they are researching bird migration patterns affected by foliage ...

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Dark side of a tech-driven future

Is anyone thinking about e-waste? Srinivasan leaves his office in Bengaluru where the lights and air-conditioners are switched off when sensors planted inside notice that he is leaving. He is prompted on his e-watch as to how much time it would take for the elevator to arrive on his floor, based on movement-recognition by sensors at the entry of th...

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Career in SDGs

How my career is linked to SDGs?? I am Aman. A final-year student of MBA in Finance and doing part-time course in computer software to improve my industry readiness. If asked to describe myself, I am an urban youth living in one of India's top ten cities. I love swimming, cricket and reading – especially those books which help me in developing a be...

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UP FOR THE PLANET

Speak up, you finally have the power!! Since governments don't seem to succeed alone, since international meetings take place without any major issues faced by future generations being considered, Positive Planet has launched UP FOR THE PLANET initiative. TERRE Policy Centre as its Network Partner, invites and encourages you from all over the world...

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E-Waste Management

0 Advanced issue found▲1 Digital India is a Dream. E-waste is a Reality Network of Smart Campus can realize the Dream by Managing the Reality MIT-World Peace University (MIT-WPU) of India has become the first university to launch e-Waste Management program across their campuses through participative approaches. Students and Faculty have begun ...

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Connections despite Distance

Redefining Education and Learning for SDGs We are at the historic moment when the educational campuses are deploying the new technologies, not only to make learning easy through digital courses like MOOCs (Massive Open OnlineCourses) but also to deploy emerging technologies Internet of Things ( IoT) and Cloud Networking (CN) that are re-defining ho...

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Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS)

0 Advanced issue found▲1 An Experiment transformed into a Movement First and Only University in the world - Exclusively for the tribal students  SCCN team was honored to visit the Kalinga Institurte of Social Sciences (KISS) campus in Bhubaneswar and witness the UNBELIEVABLE sight of 25000 students. KISS has not just being providing educa...

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SCCN signs MoU with HMCH

0 Advanced issue found▲  SCCN welcomes Hi-Tech Medical College & Hospital, Bhubaneswar for campus transformation​ TERRE Policy Centre's project – Smart Campus Cloud Network (SCCN) aligning United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) with campus communities is expanding to the East Coast of India. On 18th January 2018, SCCN c...

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UNESCO backs SCCN

1 Advanced issue found▲  Enter heading here...UNESCO's Knowledge Societies Program backs Smart Campus Global Project of TERRE-India United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) announced its full support to India-based TERRE Policy Centre's Smart Campus Cloud Network (SCCN) in its 2018 Programme. UNESCO's Know...

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New campuses onboard

Vishwashanti Gurukul is another visionary initiative of the MAEER's MIT Pune. It is one of the best Indian boarding schools, is committed to providing top quality academics, best possible child friendly infrastructure and safe eco friendly campus. Academics coupled with sports, performing arts and social awareness and inclusiveness of weaker sectio...

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Young minds on Agro-innovation in Pandharpur

SCCN joins Junior Robocon 2018 in Pandharpur  ViswashanthiGurkul Nivasi school, Pandharpur, the famous temple town in Maharashtra, hosted the 5th National Level Jr Robocon 2018 from 11th to 12th January 2018. Mr Rajendra Shende, Chairman of TERRE Policy Centre and Former Director UNEP was the chief guest for this grand event. Presided by Prof ...

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Campus Story

0 Advanced issue found▲  Nalanda University bags the GRIHA Council Exemplary Performance Award 2017  Nalanda University bagged two Awards at the Valedictory function of the 9th GRIHA Summit 2017 in New Delhi on 19 th December. It received the GRIHA Council Exemplary Performance Award -2017 for Integrated Water Management category and...

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SCCN meets SPPU

Rajendra Shende, Founder SCCN meets Dr. Nitin Karmalkar, Vice-Chancellor of SPPU and Mr. Nitin Patil, IT Head SPPU. Special thanks to Mrs. Madhuri Sahasrabuddhe, Corporator and Master of Social Work. Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) is already an SCCN member and is in the process to form SCCN core group in the campus to initiate some immedia...

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Digital India with combo card for students and staff

Going with the national wave of unique identification, the College of Engineering Pune (CoEP) has come up with its homegrown equivalent of the Aadhaar Card, it seems. But the 'combo card' — introduced in collaboration with the State Bank of India (SBI) — would not just be proof of identity for its students, it will help them withdraw money, too. Th...

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Founder's Message

Enter your text here ... Generative AI to Intuitive AI ​When we talk about Artificial Intelligence (AI), the first picture that comes to our mind is 'robot'. Robotic image of AI, however, has long been surpassed by new technological transformation. The age of getting in awe of 'robots' is over. In this era of augmenting intelligence, we daily come ...

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Unisolar collaborates with TERRE

Interactive and informative start of the week!! ​On 11th December 2017, 10 prospective entrepreneurs attended the one-day seminar organized by TERRE Policy Centre on 'Solar PV Rooftop System with Unique Business Model' on 11th December 2017. Outsanding team of Unisolar Power Pvt ltd provided technical, financial policy and management information th...

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Campus Survey - MITAOE

​Alandi is a town popularly known as a place of pilgrimage for being the resting place (Samadhi) of the 13th century Marathi Saint (Bhakti), Sant Dyaneshwar. In this religious abode, MIT Academy of Engineering has registered for Smart Campus Cloud Network (SCCN) and is all set to bring sustainaibility approach in town. On 29th November 2017, SCCN t...

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Smart Energy Revolution

The vision of creating a world where every watt counts Smart city is an efficient and self-sustaining urban set-up that assures its people a high quality of life by way of optimal management of its resources. One of the most crucial issues in this context is Energy management. Heading to the direction of Smart cities, Smart Campus Cloud Network (SC...

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Sustainable Stanford

1 Advanced issue found▲  ''To create a healthier environment now and richer possibilities for generations to come'' Sustainable Stanford is a university-wide effort to reduce environmental impact, preserve resources, and show sustainability in action. They are determined to lead in researching, teaching, and practicing environmental susta...

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Campus Survey - VIT

 A survey was conducted by domain expert and key accounts manager-SCCN team on the 8th of November, 2017 at Vishwakarma Insitute of Technology, Pune, Maharashtra On the basis of the survey and discussions with the Maintenance Team, following requirements were identified: 1. Real time tracking of the distribution losses in the electrical networ...

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Textile Industry to become Green, Efficient and contribute to Sustainable Development Goals.

Energy Conservation is the Need of the Hour In the age of Urbanisation and Industrialisation, the consumption of energy per capita is ever increasing. This changing life style is adding burden on the energy production units and eventually causing more pollution and stress on natural resources of the planet. Electricity is a problem in developing co...

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New Campus Onboard | Government College of Engineering, Karad

​The Government of Maharashtra with the aim and vision to spread Technical Education in rural and tribal areas of the state of Maharashtra founded Government College Of Engineering, Karad in 1960.The College is affiliated to Shivaji University, Kolhapur and is acting as a vital education center for many years. Over the years the college has produce...

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SCCN signs MoU with IYC

​The International Youth Committee (IYC) is an International Youth Organization working to provide a policy framework and practical guidelines for national action and international support to improve the situation of young people around the world. Currently, IYC has a presence over 57 countries coordinated by the Country Coordinators (CC) and Ambas...

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Founder's Message

'Internet of Things' ( IoT) can give birth to 'Campus of Things' ( CoT) We always thought that everyday objects called 'Things' cannot sense, compute and communicate. Unprecedented technological development has transformed the everyday 'Things' that we use at our homes, our work places and our schools and colleges. They are communicating and and co...

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SCCN dominates COP23 exhibition at Bonn, Germany

The World Climate Conference (Conference of the Parties) is one of the most sought Summit that all environment-enthusiasts look forward to every year. This year the COP23 was held in the beautiful city of Bonn in Germany. Many organizations had come to exhibit their outstanding and innovative projects on sustainability and climate change mitigation...

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LED lights for Smart Campus

0 Advanced issue found▲1 LED Lights are not only Sustainable, they also support Campus Safety ​Howard University's Office of Sustainability has announced the completion of an exterior LED retrofit project in the heart of the University's campus. The new installations, which boost lighting levels for example around the clock tower, walkway path...

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UNESCO in SCCN Advisory Board

​As SCCN (Smart Campus Cloud Network) endeavors in the drive towards "Sustainable Campuses", it is encouraged by many like-minded individuals with a passion for the cause. SCCN is engaged with not only the educational campuses in Pune but also campuses abroad. In this journey, we have been recently acknowledged by UNESCO and it gives us great pleas...

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Press Release

0 Advanced issue found▲  UNESCO applauds Smart Campus Cloud Network of TERRE Policy CentreEnter heading here... 9th October 2017, Pune: "The time has come for re-examining intrinsic linkages between the digital innovations, technology penetration and increasing societal inclination for a digitized world. Undoubtedly, TERRE Policy Centre's...

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Beat Pollution

Towards a pollution - free Planet ​The UN Environment Assembly, the world's highest-level decision-making body on the environment, will gather in Nairobi, Kenya, from 4-6 December 2017 under the overarching theme of pollution. On 28th September 2017, the first Conference of Parties for the Minamata Convention that addresses Mercury issue, UN Enviro...

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Meeting the HODs

SNDT has decided to make the campus Smart and Sustainable On 4th October 2017, SNDT Women's University invited SCCN team to present the project to the various Head of Departments in their campus. The detailed presentation was given by Dinah Gengmei, Project Leader and Ameya Paratkar, Policy Analyst from SCCN team of TERRE Policy Centre. The present...

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Founder's Message

IoT is not a hype - It will disrupt Every 'Thing' by 2020 Nearly all those studying in the universities today, have grown up with Internet. I am not one of them. However, as IIT-alumnus, my 'web' of friends was already 'world-wide' when Internet was invented. One of my friends working in famous European particle physics lab-CERN, recalls a memo tha...

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SCCN in Global Positive Forum

Posted on: 12 September 2017 By: admin Message from Rajendra Shende, Chairman TERRE Policy Centre and Founder SCCN It is my pleasure to announce that the Smart Campus Cloud Network (SCCN) has partnered with Positive Planet Foundation to livestream the Global Positive Forum, that took place in Paris on this 1st September, 2017. The Global Positive F...

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SCCN presented to SNDT Women's University

Posted on: 11 September 2017 By: admin L to R - Dinah Gengmei (Project Leader SCCN), Ameya Paratkar (Policy Analyst SCCN), Madhuri Sahasrabuddhe (Corporator and Master of Social Work), Poornima Chikarmane (Associate Professor & Campus Incharge SNDT Women's University) and Nalini Patil (Principal SNDT Women's University) SNDT Women's University ...

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New registrations

Posted on: 8 September 2017 By: admin The first Women's university in India as well as in South-East Asia. The University was founded by Maharshi Dr. Dhondo Keshav Karve in 1916 for a noble cause of Women's Education. The first five women graduated in 1921 from this University. The University Headquarters is in Churchgate Campus, Mumbai and the oth...

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Sustainability and Financing

Posted on: 7 September 2017 By: admin A reality check in India  When the topic of sustainability and financing is discussed, the chicken-egg dilemma always remains there. Most of them are still discussing what comes first and Sustainability and financing has an indirect relationship. Businesses focus on management of risks which are material f...

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SCCN moves forward in SIIB

Posted on: 7 September 2017 By: admin SCCN progress in SIIB  In the wake of the current global scenario of rising energy demands, which forms a massive concern as institutions and organizations, big and small, try their heart out to draw upon a plan that would enable them to cut down on their overconsumption. Keeping this agenda in our hearts ...

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Founder's Message

Posted on: 7 September 2017 By: admin From Garages to Campuses  The most talked about mega enterprises that have transformed the world had their beginnings in the car garages. Google, Amazon, Disney, Hewlett-Packard, Apple, and others incubated their business plans in those small places. The places where cars were parked turned into the labora...

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SCCN welcomes SPPU onboard !!!

Savitribai Phule Pune University - SPPU One of the premier universities in India becomes an SCCN member  SPPU is positioned in the North-western part of Pune city, Maharashtra, India. It occupies an area of about 411 acres. It was established on 10th February, 1949 under the Poona University Act. The university houses 46 academic departments. ...

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SmartSense 2.0 for Smarter and Energy Efficient Campus

Posted on: 10 August 2017 By: admin SmartSense 2.0 Energy Intelligence for Smart Campuses SCCN's Energy Intelligence partner Ecolibrium Energy launched 'SmartSense 2.0' with an ability to create dashboards and widgets very easily. The new platform has the capability to automatically scan the entire energy usage across enterprises and convert busine...

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Founder's Message

Posted on: 10 August 2017 By: admin Story of Universal and Quality Education  The first ever global movement for 'inclusive development' in the history of human civilization was launched by United Nations at the dawn of 21st century when, in year 2000, in its General Assembly consisting of all of 196 countries adopted eight Millennium Developm...

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IIT Delhi

Sustainable Campus, Green Campus - IIT Delhi  The Key technology campuses in India have always been the harbingers of new technology and innovations in India. From colour TV, to computers and to Bio Sciences, India has witnessed a drive initiated by these growth engines. India is witnessing a demographic dividend and by next 3 years, India wil...

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Student's corner

Abhishek Chaudhary, 3rd year student of MIT College of Engineering, Pune More than the idea, it is the successful initiative by TERRE Policy Centre to bring this Smart Campus into reality through latest technologies, that takes it one step ahead of being just another environmental organisation. The recent launch of the SCCN project at the MIT campu...

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Ecolibrium Energy wins Ashden award

 SCCN partner for SmartSense, Ecolibrium Energy wins prestigious Ashden Award Innovative Indian start-up organisation and SCCN collaborative partner, Ecolibrium Energy has been announced as one of the 13 winners of the 2017 Ashden Awards, the world's leading green energy awards. Winner of the International Ashden Award for Powering Business, E...

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New advisors on board

Stanford Alumni and Co-founder of SlideShare join Advisory Council Smart Campus Cloud Network TERRE Policy Centre, Pune 27 May, 2017 - Cyber experts, Ram Subramaniam a promoter of disruptive innovation based in Bay area, USA and Amit Ranjan an architect of India's e-governance, New Delhi have joined the Advisory Council of Smart Campus Cloud Networ...

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SCCN goes beyond simple compliance with SDGs

Smart Campus Cloud Network is a web of diverse universities interconnected with common goal of competing positively to better contribute to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It encourages creativity and innovation through campus based initiatives. It motivates the student communities through learning by doing. As per Oxford dictionary meaning o...

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Campus Handprint

U-Turn from Carbon Footprint to Campus Handprint When the world is abuzz with "Sustainability", SCCN believes in taking this concept closer to everyone with the help of a HANDPRINT. Initiatives with a positive impact, can be named – HANDPRINT. The Handprint concept captures the energy which young people see in themselves and desire to do things for...

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TERRE and MIT signs MoU for SCCN

0 Advanced issue found▲  MIT Group of Institutes signs MoU with TERRE Policy Centre for implementing smart Campus Cloud Network (SCCN)​ Pune, 30 May 2017 "Our vision is to mainstream sustainability in all the elements of MIT campuses and contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals-SDGs", said Dr. Sunil Karad, Executive ...

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Inspiring green campus

  Trendsetter IIT Bombay The Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay is a public engineering institution, spread over a 220 - hectare sprawl in Powai, Mumbai, India. It is one of Mumbai's greenest and India's cleanest places! IIT Bombay has been working towards creating a green and sustainable environment. In this wide spread lush green campus...

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New member in SCCN

Indus International University Committed to excellence in education and the character development, Indus International University (IIU) located in Una city of Himachal Pradesh, is known for its activities in building tomorrow's Indian citizens. "IIU's commitment to excellence is demonstrated not only in its classrooms, libraries and labs, but also ...

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SDGs – A unique opportunity for universities

 "MDGs, SDGs and Higher Education" "The SDGs provide a unique opportunity to higher education institutions to demonstrate their willingness and capability of playing an active and meaningful role in the development of their respective countries and in contributing towards global sustainable development. They also provide an opportunity for col...

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IOT the new cool

 IOT and SCCN SmartSense, Ecolibrium's flagship IOT enabled Energy Analytics Platform Provides businesses and Campuses with Intelligence to optimise energy costs and asset uptime through predictive insights, saving up to 15% of energy and asset maintenance spends. 00197556TERRE policy centre4165214.0 Normal0 falsefalsefalse EN-INJAHI /* Style ...

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SIIB case study report

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Talk of the Month

Solid Facts of a Liquid called "Water" "What cannot be measured cannot be monitored and what cannot be administered cannot be accomplished". Now, imagine that our measurements themselves are in error! Universities are amazing places to make not only scientific breakthroughs but they are also the abodes to point to such socially relevant issues of e...

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