As part of a mass effort to bring clean drinking water to over 5,000 villages in India, 31 college students from 13 universities in Japan and 12 social work students from Amrita’s Amritapuri campus participated in the Jivamritam project from February 16-26, 2019.
On February 28, 2019, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham was invited to participate in a Cross Cultural Educational Symposium with Colorado State University at Taj Gateway Hotel in Kochi.
On February 4, 2019, Dr. Shyam Diwakar, from the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Neurophysiology, School of Biotechnology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, met with the University of Milan La Statale's Rector, Prof. Elio Franzini and had a discussion on augmenting joint possibilities with both Universities.
The DataScientia consortium of founding members includes Italy’s University of Trento, the National University of Mongolia, India’s Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, China’s Jilin University, Paraguay’s Catholic University of Asunción, South Africa’s Tshwane University of Technology and UK’s Heriot-Watt University.
On October 31st, 2018, Dr. Shyam Diwakar of Amrita School of Biotechnology (ASBT) was invited to give a talk on "Online Engineering and Virtual Laboratories in India: Learners and Teachers Beyond Traditional Classrooms" to professors and their international office team at the Munich Center for Neurosciences– Brain & Mind (MCN) at Munich, Germany.
