The professors of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s research centers, AMMACHI Labs and AmritaCREATE, published book chapters in “Children and Sustainable Development – Ecological Education in a Globalized World”.
RAHA 2016, an International Conference on Robotics and Automation for Humanitarian Applications, was held December 18- 20, 2016, at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus.
Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamAMMACHI Labs’ MoVE Project has been featured in NITI Aayog’s recent publication, “Best Practices from Our States.” The National Institution for Transforming India is a Government of India policy think-tank. . .
As World Toilet Day is marked on November 19, 2016, Amrita is excited to announce that two villages in Bihar, adopted by Amrita SeRVe for sustainable development, have now been declared Open Defecation Free!
Prof. Allan Bateman from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Technical University of Catalonia, UPC Barcelona Tech, Spain, visited the Amritapuri campus in late April-early May 2016.
Dr. Ingrid Paoletti, Associate Professor of Building Technology at the Politecnico di Milano (Polytechnic University of Milam – POLIMI), Italy, visited Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham in October 2016 as a part of the Rector’s Delegation to India.
Sreeram Kongeseri from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham was among 50 youth leaders from more than 30 countries selected to present and deliberate solutions for the realization of SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals).
Prof. Rao R. Bhavani, Director of AMMACHI Labs, was a panellist and speaker at the Global Empowerment Summit in La Jolla, California, on October 22, 2016. She gave a talk during the session “Power of Compassion and Global Impact”.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has collaborated with Andhra Pradesh State Skill Development Corporation (APSSDC) and School Education Department to run a pilot project called “Redesigning Educational Pathways using Technology andInnovative Pedagogical Constructs for Scalable Quality Education and Lifelong Learning” in selected state model school.
Prof. Bhavani of AMMACHI Labs and Prof. Prema Nedungadi of AmritaCREATE presented at Unesco ICTs in Education’s Mobile Learning Week 2016 held at Paris, France from March 7-11, 2016.