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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

 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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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'....

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...

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...

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,...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

​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...

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...

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...

 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...

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...

​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...

​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...

'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...

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...

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...

​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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

 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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

  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...

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 ...

 "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...

 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 ...

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...

 The environment-enthusiast IIT Hyderabad walking the good talk IIT Hyderabad has been actively making sure that they do what others talk about doing as an environment-enthusiast. Being innovative is its strength: A campus recycling program covering paper, plastic, packing material, scrap metal, and hazardous e-waste. Separate bins installed f...

Smart steps towards less cash campus  Hon'ble PM Modi said, "India is on its way to become a digital economy. The time is not far when every Indiam, even the poorest, would say 'Digi dhan, Niji-dhan'." SCCN digital expert, Sanjeev Chaudhary, taking clue from this conducted a capacity building activity in Rotary club Shivaji nagar on 3rd April,...

 Announcement during its 9th Convocation Ceremony A total of 260+ students were graduated MIT Institute of Design announced during the graduation of its batch of 2017 on 17th March that MIT ID will be a part of Smart Campus Cloud Network (SCCN) and will operate with three S-principle i.e. Science, Spirituality and Sustainability to contribute ...

Clean Up Your Act. Compost!!  'Clean up your act' is what comes to mind when we talk about composting, because whatever we got is never a waste. Everything that we call waste can be avoided to be treated as a waste, and when we talk about waste management and waste minimization, understanding the importance of composting becomes essentially cr...

SDGs aim for New World order SCCN as a Tool-Box  "There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university," wrote John Masefield, one of the greatest British poet and writer of the last century, in his tribute to universities. He was not referring to the sprawling lawns, lined trees and rising towers and domes of the University campuses....

"If you think going to college is a waste of time, Christ University will probably make sure you segregate it first"  Where we talk about creating Smart campuses with a sustainability approach, we cannot overlook the ways in which Christ University has made it happen. The university was awarded 'Best Institutional Buildings and Garden' award b...

MIT Pune initiated IOT workshop​ "The Internet of Things (IOT) is a system of interrelated computing devices, mechanical and digital machines, objects, animals or people that are provided with unique identifiers and the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction. Understanding IOT is th...

(L to R) Mr. Rajendra Shende, Rtn. Paul Netzel, PDG Rtn. Prashant Deshmukh, PDG Rtn. Vinay Deshmukh, Rtn. Vinay Sathe (L to R) Mr. Rajendra Shende, Rtn. Nitin Naik, Rtn. Dr. Pradeep Wagh, Dr. Vishwanath Karad, Rtn. Paul Netzel, PDG Rtn. Prashant Deshmukh, PDG Rtn. Vinay Deshmukh (L to R) Mr. Rajendra Shende,Rtn. Nitin Naik, Rtn. Dr. Pradeep Wagh, D...

 The first ever campus in SCCN has initiated monitoring of electricity usage and working on the ways to reduce their consumption pattern The first campus to be registered with SCCN, i.e., Symbiosis Institute of International Business has kicked-off implementation of assessing electricity consumption in its campus. Six core groups of students t...

 26th January, 2017 : Understanding Digital Transactions - A smart step towards Less Cash Society" as a SSK - Smart Skill Katta Activity As per the modern definition, campus is a collection of buildings and grounds that belong to a given institution, either academic or non-academic. Example is campus of IT-software company or even a housing co...

 31st January, 2017 : Training on Smartsense platform for students and faculties in SIIB, Pune Objective of Training: To equip the core group of SIIB on monitoring the power consumption data in the SIIB premises with an aim to reduce the energy cost by preventing waste and identifying levers for energy saving at SIIB. This is expected to contr...

 Prof Nicole Bernex , Director of Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) in Lima, Peru , becomes mentor for SCCN Prof Nicole Bernex is Director of Centre for Research in Applied Geography – CIGA in Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP). She is represented on UN's Global Water Partnership as expert. Due to her keen interest in sh...

​History has shown that educational campuses and dormitories are the breeding grounds for the global revolutionary changes. Imagine if there is tool to connect the campuses and enable them to share their aspirations and evolutionary thinking. Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook dreamt of it in his dormitory in Harvard University Campus in USA in 2...