Smart Campus for Smart Future

 Smart Campus for Smart Future

The news that newly elected US President Joe Biden has decided to rejoin the Paris Agreement is reassuring to environmentalists. When I shared this news through my social media, many people replied that what exactly is this Paris Agreement? Five years after the agreement was signed by 197 countries, many of my friends still do not know about it, which means I have failed to raise awareness about it. In today's era, it is not very difficult to find out about this agreement. But I think the real challenge today is to arouse the curiosity of people, especially students, to go on that search. On the one hand, ten-year-old Greta Thunberg from Sweden is abandoning school and demanding urgent action from world leaders on climate change, and on the one hand, we are completely unaware of it.

Humans have made discoveries in the process of finding answers to the challenges of their daily lives. If our education system wants to find answers to tomorrow's problems, the sooner students are made aware of this challenge, the better, because today's students are going to be tomorrow's strategists, and therefore these challenges must be included in the curriculum to lay the foundation for nature-based solutions.

The Campuses are a fountain of curiosity, innovative ideas, experiments, and energy, and in this time of hope, the biggest challenge facing the world is to allow students to learn through action to solve the problem, I believe this young generation will find a way. Today, from school and college life, students should be informed about Climate Change, Paris Agreement, Sustainable Development Goals and these topics should be included in the syllabus through the practical action-based task. That is why the ambitious project "Smart Campus Cloud Network" was launched in 2017 by TERRE Policy Center in Pune. The project is Brain Child of a former director of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and chairman of the TERRE Policy Center, Mr Rajendra Shende, alumni of IIT Bombay, as he is fully aware of the potential of the students at the campuses. In just the first six months since the project began, the project created a cloud dashboard called "Smart Sense" using cloud technology and made it available to participating colleges and universities for free.

Using this "smart sense", colleges and universities are monitoring the need and use of water and electricity on their campuses, as well as reducing carbon emissions using unconventional energy. They are also urging their students to find solutions to these problems through active experimentation. This not only stimulates the curiosity of the students but also enhances their abilities and skills. And most importantly, the platform is open and free to all. You can register your name if you are a student, or your school, college, university if you are a teacher, professor or administrative officer.

Recently, on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement, the Smart Campus Cloud Network organized a virtual webinar in which the Vice-Chancellors of 12 Indian universities pledged 'NOT ZERO-NET ZERO' to make their campuses sustainable. The initiative is supported by UNESCO and the All India Council of Technical Education [AICTE]. This pledge is available on the website. Many schools, colleges, universities are enthusiastically taking this pledge. So far, more than 200 educational institutions have taken this pledge.

Please visit www.sccnhub.com to get registered and sign the pledge

The 'Smart Campus Cloud Network' invites you to prepare your students for the future and to make your campus smarter. If you want to know more information about this project kindly contact Mr Vinayak Salunkhe, +91-8999779586 or email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.