Last Update : December 1, 2024
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has established itself as a leading institution through international collaboration and research in reviewing comparative approaches to sustainable development and developing international best practices for tackling the Sustainable Development Goals throughout 2024. The university’s commitment to synthesizing knowledge from diverse geographic contexts, methodologies, and implementation approaches has positioned it as a bridge institution connecting research communities globally to advance evidence-based solutions for sustainable development. Through strategic partnerships with international research networks, UN agencies, UNESCO structures, and global academic institutions, Amrita has developed frameworks, methodologies, and practices that demonstrate how universities can serve as knowledge hubs for advancing SDG implementation globally.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s Amrita Center for Sustainable Development Goals (ACSDG) plays a pivotal role in fostering international collaboration and research to address the SDGs effectively, with the center’s dedication to reviewing comparative approaches and developing international best practices for tackling the SDGs evident in its numerous projects and partnerships. The ACSDG operates as a trans-disciplinary research institution that actively engages in synthesizing evidence from global contexts and developing frameworks applicable to diverse institutional and geographic settings. One of the ACSDG’s key initiatives involves collaborating with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to create a data dashboard for SDGs in India, providing real-time data on India’s progress towards the SDGs and empowering policymakers and stakeholders to track progress and identify areas requiring further action. This collaboration demonstrates how universities can participate in developing monitoring systems that translate comparative international approaches into context-specific tools that serve national policymakers.
Additionally, the ACSDG partners with the World Economic Forum to develop a platform for sharing SDG-related data, facilitating collaboration among researchers and practitioners worldwide and enabling them to share data and work together on projects involving data gathering and analysis. This platform serves as a repository of comparative approaches and best practices from diverse global contexts, allowing practitioners to learn from international examples and adapt approaches to their own contexts. The ACSDG’s commitment to international collaboration extends to its involvement in the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), a global network of universities committed to advancing sustainable development. The SDSN’s working groups focus on various aspects of data gathering and analysis for the SDGs, providing a platform for knowledge exchange and collaboration among international researchers and practitioners. Through participation in SDSN working groups, Amrita contributes to developing comparative analyses of approaches to SDG implementation across global contexts and shares its own best practices with the international research community.
The ACSDG’s efforts to review comparative approaches and develop international best practices for tackling the SDGs are exemplified by its research projects involving comparative analysis of different approaches to addressing the SDGs, identifying successful strategies, and sharing them with the global community. These research initiatives examine how different institutional types, geographic contexts, and socio-economic settings approach SDG implementation, identifying commonalities, divergences, and context-specific adaptations of successful strategies. By engaging in international conferences and workshops, the ACSDG actively disseminates its research findings and best practices, providing opportunities for knowledge sharing, networking, and collaboration with other researchers and practitioners worldwide. The ACSDG’s partnerships include collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Economic Forum, the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), and numerous universities and research institutions worldwide. Through these partnerships, the ACSDG is actively contributing to the development and promotion of international best practices for tackling the SDGs and helping to accelerate progress towards a more sustainable future for all.
In March 2024, Amrita’s UNESCO Chair Professors participated in a historic round-table gathering of UNESCO Chairs in South Asia held in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, on March 18-19, 2024. This major international collaboration brought together 16 UNESCO Chairs from India, Sri Lanka, and Nepal to share findings, compare approaches, and develop coordinated strategies for addressing sustainable development challenges across South Asia. Mr Tim Curtis, Director and UNESCO Representative for the UNESCO Regional Office in New Delhi, facilitated the discussions, bringing institutional authority and global perspective to the regional synthesis effort. The UNESCO Regional Office covers six countries of South Asia—Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka—creating an important forum for comparing approaches to SDG implementation across this critically important region.
Dr. Maneesha V. Ramesh, Provost of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and Chair of the UNESCO Chair on Experiential Learning for Sustainable Innovation and Development, presented findings on Amrita’s comprehensive framework for academic engagement to build sustainable communities by designing curriculum based on experiential learning. Through the UNESCO Chair, Amrita has been developing this framework for academic engagement to build sustainable communities, translating experiential learning principles into curriculum design and institutional practice. Dr. Ramesh’s presentation shared comparative insights on how experiential learning approaches can be integrated into academic systems across diverse institutional contexts, contributing to the development of international best practices in sustainability education. Similarly, Dr. Bhavani Rao, Amrita’s UNESCO Chairholder for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment, presented group discussions and comparative findings on gender equality strategies. Dr. Rao, who is India’s only UNESCO Chair in Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment, has been developing solutions and a comprehensive framework to tackle vulnerabilities women face in India and globally. Her presentation shared comparative approaches to gender equality work across South Asian contexts, facilitating knowledge exchange on what works and what requires adaptation in different settings. The UNESCO Chairs gathering exemplifies how international networks can serve as platforms for synthesizing knowledge from diverse geographic contexts and developing comparative insights on best practices.
The UNESCO UNITWIN (University Twinning and Networking) Programme, which supports these Chairs, plays a crucial role in strengthening higher education systems and fostering collaborative research partnerships and networks. By integrating research, teaching, training, and community engagement, the Programme facilitates interdisciplinary knowledge generation and serves as a global observatory and laboratory of ideas. Through participation in UNESCO Chairs networks, Amrita contributes to global knowledge synthesis on sustainable development approaches and helps develop international best practices applicable across diverse contexts.
In June 2024, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham participated in the prestigious Times Higher Education Global Sustainable Development Congress (GSDC) 2024 held in Bangkok from June 13-15, 2024, a major international forum for reviewing comparative approaches to sustainable development and sharing best practices among 2,152 higher education institutions from 125 countries and regions. The congress provided a global platform for examining how different institutions approach sustainability through research, stewardship, outreach, and teaching, creating opportunities for comparative analysis and best practice dissemination. Amrita delegates showcased groundbreaking initiatives and transformative progress in sustainability, demonstrating the university’s comprehensive approach to SDG implementation and positioning it as a model institution for international peer learning.
Dr. Maneesha V. Ramesh, Provost of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, presented during the prominent panel titled “Excellence in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: Spotlight on India,” highlighting Amrita’s comprehensive framework and compelling case studies exemplifying the university’s strides toward becoming a global leader in sustainability efforts. Her presentation articulated how Amrita’s holistic approach to integrating SDGs into its educational and research paradigms could serve as a model for other educational institutions worldwide. Dr. Ramesh emphasized that “At Amrita, our commitment to sustainability is woven into the fabric of our institution. We aim not only to educate but also to actively engage in projects that address real-world challenges, fostering sustainable development on a global scale.” This statement encapsulates Amrita’s philosophy of institutional transformation for sustainability, a best practice model that other universities can study and adapt.
Other Amrita representatives presented complementary perspectives on best practices across different SDG domains. Dr. Shivapratap Gopakumar, Associate Professor at the Amrita School for Sustainable Futures, presented research and innovation approaches to sustainable development, demonstrating how academic research can be organized to address SDG challenges systematically. Mr. Krishnanandan, Coordinator of the Live-in-Labs® program, showcased community-engaged research approaches and sustainable solution deployment strategies, highlighting Amrita’s unique methodological contribution to experiential learning for sustainable development. Ms. Reshma A S, Program Officer for Water Sustainability Initiatives, presented Amrita’s sophisticated water resource management and monitoring systems, demonstrating institutional best practices in sustainable water management. Through these diverse presentations, Amrita shared multiple models of best practice across different domains, allowing international peers to learn from the university’s comprehensive approach to sustainability.
Amrita’s participation in the GSDC 2024 demonstrated the institution’s commitment to the SDGs, reflected in the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2024, where the university ranked #1 in India for the fourth consecutive year and achieved a place among THE’s top 100 educational institutions globally. The university’s exceptional rankings across specific SDG-related categories—including SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-being) – Rank 7, SDG 4 (Quality Education) – Rank 3, SDG 5 (Gender Equality) – Rank 22, SDG 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation) – Rank 62, SDG 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy) – Rank 87, SDG 9 (Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure) – Rank 87, and SDG 17 (Partnerships for the Goals) – Rank 301 to 400—reflect the university’s integrated approach to sustainability across multiple domains and its leadership in developing and implementing best practices.
On July 9, 2024, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham participated in and showcased best practices at the National Workshop on “Inculcating SDG-4 (Quality Education) in Higher Education Institutions in Compliance with NEP 2020,” hosted by SRM University, Chennai. The event gathered over 100 delegates from higher education institutions across India to discuss strategies for integrating Sustainable Development Goal 4 (Quality Education) into higher education systems, providing a crucial platform for comparative analysis of approaches and dissemination of best practices. Amrita’s participation demonstrated the institution’s leadership in education for sustainable development and its willingness to share effective approaches with peer institutions.
Dr. Prashant R. Nair, Vice-Chairman of the Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s Coimbatore campus, delivered a compelling presentation highlighting Amrita’s commitment to quality education aligned with the vision of Chancellor AMMA. Dr. Nair articulated three pillars forming the foundation of Amrita’s educational philosophy: education for life, compassion-driven research, and global impact. These three pillars represent an integrated approach to quality education that emphasizes holistic learning, research grounded in social responsibility, and global engagement. By presenting these pillars to over 100 delegates from HEIs across India, Dr. Nair demonstrated how universities can explicitly articulate an educational philosophy grounded in sustainability and compassion that can serve as a best practice model for peer institutions.
Amrita’s pioneering initiatives in education were prominently featured at the workshop, including the Amrita Center for International Programs (ACIP), which fosters global perspectives among students and prepares them for engagement in international contexts, and the acclaimed Live-in-Labs® program, which offers experiential learning opportunities that address real-world challenges. By showcasing these programs at a national forum, Amrita demonstrated how quality education aligned with SDG-4 targets can be operationalized through specific institutional programs and practices. The workshop, organized under the leadership of Dr. G. Augustine Maniraj Pandian, Dean-IQAC at SRM University, and Dr. P. Madhusoodhanan, Head of the Career Development Center (CDC), provided a structured platform for sharing best practices and fostering collaboration among HEIs towards achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Through Amrita’s participation, the institution positioned itself as a knowledge leader in quality education and demonstrated how comparative approaches can be shared to strengthen SDG implementation across institutional sectors.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s UNESCO Chair on “Experiential Learning for Sustainable Innovation and Development,” first awarded in 2020 and renewed in 2024, represents a major international initiative to develop and disseminate a comprehensive framework for academic engagement to build sustainable communities through curriculum design based on experiential learning principles. Through this Chair, the university is developing a global curriculum applicable to fourteen selected UN SDGs through an experiential learning approach, positioning Amrita as a developer of international best practices in sustainability education. This curriculum development effort involves synthesizing approaches from diverse institutional contexts and creating a model that can be adapted across different geographic, cultural, and institutional settings.
Over the past decade, Amrita’s approach has ensured that Education for Sustainability has remained an integral part of the design and development of its 4,000+ courses spread across 300+ programs. This systematic integration has resulted in the creation of 400,000+ sustainability champions who have graduated from the university, demonstrating the scalability and institutional impact of Amrita’s approach to sustainability education. This achievement provides concrete evidence of the effectiveness of the university’s best practice model and demonstrates how sustainability can be woven into the fabric of an institution’s educational mission.
Comprehensive courses on sustainable development and climate action have been integrated across academic programs at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Mandatory courses now cover essential sustainability areas including foundational courses in sustainable development, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) literacy, and applied sustainability, with these courses embedded as mandatory credits within designated semesters across diverse disciplines including Engineering, Social Sciences, Business, Biotechnology, and Medicine. This cross-disciplinary approach to sustainability education represents a best practice model that other institutions can study and adapt. By requiring all students, regardless of disciplinary background, to engage with sustainability concepts, Amrita ensures that all graduates develop competence in understanding and addressing sustainable development challenges.
Amrita’s flagship program, Live-in-Labs®, serves as the cornerstone for implementing the multidisciplinary curriculum on Sustainable Development. It is offered as undergraduate, postgraduate, and PhD programs, ensuring a continuum of experiential learning experiences that equip participants with the necessary skills and values to develop and deploy sustainable solutions in real-world settings. The program’s design and implementation represent a best practice model for translating sustainability education from classroom learning into field-based application and community engagement. By making the program available across multiple academic levels, Amrita enables career-long engagement with sustainability challenges and demonstrates how universities can create pathways for progressive development of expertise in sustainable development.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s Building Energy Efficiency Upgrade initiative, announced in 2024, represents a comprehensive approach to implementing international best practices in campus sustainability by systematically evaluating current sustainability practices against global benchmarks and implementing proven innovations. This initiative demonstrates how universities can engage in comparative analysis of global best practices and translate them into institutional operations. The initiative is rooted in Chancellor AMMA’s unwavering commitment to fostering a greener, more frugal, and sustainable lifestyle, underscoring Amrita’s dedication to environmental stewardship and its role as a leader in sustainable development within the academic community.
To achieve the goals outlined in this initiative, Amrita has implemented a comprehensive process designed to promote continuous improvement and ensure compliance with both national and international standards. This process encompasses a range of strategies and approaches aimed at closing gaps in existing sustainability practices while leveraging cutting-edge advancements in global sustainability innovations. By integrating these proven innovations, Amrita ensures the adoption of evidence-based best practices that enhance energy efficiency, reduce environmental impact, and align with broader sustainability objectives. The initiative has achieved 32.4% of energy cost savings through systematic application of best practices, demonstrating the financial viability and environmental effectiveness of the adopted approaches.
The initiative systematically evaluates current sustainability practices, identifying areas for enhancement and aligning them with global benchmarks. This comparative analysis allows Amrita to understand where its practices fall short of international standards and where its innovations exceed expectations. By fostering a culture of innovation, the university actively incorporates state-of-the-art technologies and methodologies, transforming its operations and infrastructure into a model of energy efficiency and environmental responsibility. This dynamic approach ensures that Amrita remains at the forefront of sustainable practices, creating a ripple effect of positive change within and beyond its campus. The energy efficiency model developed through this initiative represents a best practice that other institutions can adopt and adapt to their own contexts, demonstrating how universities can contribute to broader climate action while reducing operational costs.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s Live-in-Labs® program has emerged as an internationally recognized best practice model for community-engaged sustainable development, with the program reaching more than 1 million beneficiaries across 25 states since its inception in 2013 and involving students and faculty from more than 30 international institutions. The program represents a comprehensive methodology for translating development research into practice through direct community engagement, experiential learning, and participatory solution development. This methodology has been reviewed, studied, and increasingly adopted by other institutions as a best practice approach to sustainable development implementation.
The Live-in-Labs® is a multidisciplinary experiential learning program that breaks classroom and lab barriers by applying learned theory in real-world settings. This credit-based academic program draws on principles of lean research for the development and deployment of sustainable solutions for current challenges faced by rural communities in India. By directly living in rural communities (labs) and co-designing sustainable solutions, program participants gain first-hand knowledge along with the know-how of identifying and assessing community needs. Subsequently, viable solutions are developed and implemented through various participatory methods. The program’s methodology has proven effective across diverse thematic areas addressing different SDGs, from education and healthcare to water, sanitation, agriculture, and environmental conservation.
With over 300 projects implemented in 25 states across India, Live-in-Labs participants have touched the lives of approximately 1 million rural residents during the past several years. With participation from over 30 institutions around the world and nearly 50 departments, schools, and centers at Amrita, students and faculty have clocked in more than 400,000 hours in the field working towards sustainable development in rural communities. This scale of engagement demonstrates the viability and scalability of the program model and provides substantial evidence of its effectiveness. The program’s reach across diverse geographic contexts, socio-economic conditions, and development challenges has enabled comparative analysis of what works in different settings, contributing to the development of a flexible yet robust best practice framework.
The Live-in-Labs® program received the prestigious Times Higher Education (THE) Asia Award 2024 for Outstanding Contribution to Environmental Leadership, recognizing its innovative approach to community-engaged research and sustainable solution deployment. The award represents international validation of the program as a best practice model worthy of peer learning and adaptation. The program demonstrates how universities can establish sustainable partnerships with rural communities for long-term data collection, adaptive management, and community-centered research that informs both policy and practice. By integrating participatory research methodologies with international collaboration, the Live-in-Labs® program has positioned Amrita as a model for how universities can participate in sustainable development through sustained community engagement and grassroots-level research.
The program is offered internationally through the Live-in-Labs® International initiative, which enables international students and faculty to participate in projects for durations ranging from one to six months, depending on their availability. This international component of the program facilitates knowledge exchange on best practices and allows international peers to learn from Amrita’s methodology while contributing their own expertise to project teams. International participants gain valuable experience in participatory research and sustainable development implementation while helping advance project objectives in partner communities.
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Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has developed a comprehensive Campus Sustainable Consumption Audit framework that provides a model for how institutions can measure, monitor, and manage their sustainability impacts aligned with SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production). The university’s 2024 policy paper titled “Sustainable Development Goal 12 and its Synergies with Other SDGs” provides a framework for consumption-based accounting (CBA), recommending the inclusion of food-waste quantification metrics within institutional sustainability audits. This framework has been developed through systematic research and institutional practice and is now available for adoption and adaptation by other institutions.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham initiated comprehensive food waste measurement, monitoring, and mitigation across its dining facilities in 2024, establishing a zero-waste baseline and systematically implementing interventions to reduce food waste. The initiative tracked over 8,000 kg per month of campus food waste and implemented practical interventions at Amritapuri campus. This institutional practice demonstrates how campuses can collect granular data on consumption patterns and waste generation, providing evidence for policy adjustments and intervention design. The systematic approach to food waste auditing, including scientific measurement methodologies and documentation protocols, represents a best practice that other campuses can adopt.
The Campus Sustainable Consumption Audit recommended the integration of carbon and organic-waste data into Amrita’s internal Green Audit procedures, establishing benchmarks that have been adopted by other institutions. By developing standardized auditing procedures and transparent reporting frameworks, Amrita contributes to international knowledge on institutional sustainability metrics and demonstrates how campuses can serve as living laboratories for testing and validating sustainable management approaches. The framework includes specific recommendations for integrating grease traps in all kitchens to prevent oil contamination while diverting decomposable food residues toward on-site composting, with refuse mass and compost yield recorded weekly as part of Amrita’s waste-recycling audit. This systematic approach to waste management demonstrates how institutions can operationalize the circular economy principles embedded in SDG 12.
Amrita’s Chennai campus received recognition in 2025 for adopting IoT-based measurement tools and composting units that track organic food waste quantities and conversion efficiency, with daily waste metrics from the dining hall automatically uploaded into a sustainability dashboard. This technological approach to monitoring enables data-driven reductions in waste-to-plate ratios and provides a best practice model for how institutions can leverage emerging technologies to enhance sustainability monitoring and management. By sharing this model through academic publications and conferences, Amrita contributes to international knowledge on institutional sustainability practices.
In 2025, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham unveiled the Amrita Research Strategy, a visionary document aligned with Chancellor AMMA’s six core research pillars, emphasizing interdisciplinary excellence and real-world impact. The strategy introduced the E7 framework for excellence, which represents Amrita’s integrated approach to research that balances academic rigor with practical application and social responsibility. Dr. Maneesha V. Ramesh presented an overview of the university’s research ecosystem, detailing the E7 framework for excellence and commitment to sustainable, compassion-driven innovation. This framework serves as a best practice model for how universities can organize research activities around principles of excellence that integrate sustainability and social responsibility.
The E7 framework emphasizes seven dimensions of excellence that guide research strategy at Amrita: Engagement (with communities and stakeholders), Excellence (in research quality and rigor), Equity (ensuring inclusive research processes), Effectiveness (demonstrating practical impact), Efficiency (optimizing resource use), Environment (advancing environmental sustainability), and Ethics (maintaining high ethical standards). This comprehensive framework reflects international best practices in research management and innovation policy and provides a model that other institutions can adapt to their own contexts. By organizing research around these seven dimensions, Amrita ensures that research activities contribute not only to academic knowledge but also to sustainable development objectives and social progress.
Dr. Venkat Rangan, Vice Chancellor, further emphasized the need for socially responsible research and the university’s expanding global collaborations, highlighting how research excellence in the contemporary context must be grounded in commitment to addressing real-world challenges and contributing to sustainable development. This emphasis on social responsibility represents a shift in how universities conceptualize excellence and provides a best practice model for how other institutions can reframe their research missions around sustainable development. The research strategy framework demonstrates how universities can develop institutional mechanisms to ensure that research contributes systematically to SDG implementation.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has engaged in systematic research examining how social entrepreneurship aligns with Sustainable Development Goals and contributes to inclusive, resilient, and innovation-driven change. A comprehensive research publication developed at Amrita and published in Sustainable Technology and Entrepreneurship (Elsevier BV) examined social entrepreneurship through an integrative lens, synthesizing six foundational theories including behavioral decision theory, theory of planned behavior, social cognitive theory, institutional theory, social capital theory, and grounded theory. This research represents international collaboration on comparative analysis of approaches to sustainable development through entrepreneurship.
The study employed a systematic literature review using the PRISMA protocol to ensure rigor and transparency in selecting studies from 2015 to 2024, analyzing 368 research articles to understand how social entrepreneurship and sustainable technologies contribute to SDG achievement. Using the theory-context-characteristics-methods (TCCM) framework and machine learning-based BERTopic modeling, researchers analyzed social entrepreneurship literature to offer both conceptual depth and empirical mapping of how different approaches address SDG challenges. The research identified that social enterprises contribute particularly to SDGs 4 (Quality Education), 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth), and 9 (Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure) through inclusive models and digital tools such as AI and blockchain. Social enterprises also advance SDGs 10 (Reduced Inequalities), 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities), and 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production) while being enabled by institutions (SDG 16) and partnerships (SDG 17).
The study identified thematic gaps in existing literature, including underexplored areas such as sector-specific financing, digital innovation, entrepreneurship in emerging sectors, sustainable technology adoption, and the contextual embedding of social entrepreneurship within SDG-linked outcomes. By identifying these gaps, the research provides a roadmap for future investigations and highlights areas where institutions should focus research attention. The study calls for multilevel theoretical integration across cognitive, relational, and institutional domains, with managerial implications for hybrid model design, stakeholder collaboration, and digital capability building. This research contribution represents how Amrita engages in international collaboration on synthesizing comparative knowledge about approaches to sustainable development and translating research insights into practical guidance for practitioners.
Amrita has established the International Network for Sustainable Innovation and Resilient Futures (SustIN), formed under the auspices of the UNESCO Chair on Experiential Learning for Sustainable Innovation and Development, to enhance institutional capacities and foster regional collaborations that accelerate collective efforts to achieve and promote sustainable development, innovative learning, and knowledge-sharing. This international network brings together institutions committed to gathering and measuring data on sustainable development through collaborative research, facilitating knowledge exchange on methodologies for SDG data collection, and supporting capacity building in research institutions across regions. By establishing this network, Amrita positions itself as a convening institution that can coordinate international collaboration on SDG approaches and contribute to the development of standardized approaches to measuring progress toward sustainable development goals.
The SustIN network operates as a platform for developing and sharing international best practices across different geographic regions and institutional contexts. By bringing together diverse institutions committed to sustainability, the network enables comparative analysis of what works in different contexts and facilitates adaptation of successful approaches to new settings. The network’s emphasis on capacity building ensures that knowledge exchange translates into institutional strengthening and enhanced ability to implement sustainable development initiatives.
Through 2024, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has demonstrated exceptional leadership in reviewing comparative approaches to sustainable development and developing international best practices for tackling the SDGs by participating actively in international research networks and knowledge platforms; hosting and participating in global forums for sharing best practices and synthesizing comparative insights; developing frameworks, methodologies, and practices that demonstrate evidence-based approaches to SDG implementation; engaging in systematic research to examine and compare different approaches to sustainable development; disseminating findings through academic publications, conferences, and international networks; and positioning itself as a model institution for peer learning and adaptation. By serving as a bridge between diverse knowledge communities and translating research insights into practical frameworks and guidelines, Amrita has positioned itself as a leading institution for developing and promoting international best practices in sustainable development. The university’s approach demonstrates that institutions can contribute significantly to global SDG progress by creating systematic mechanisms for comparative analysis, knowledge synthesis, and international collaboration on evidence-based solutions. Through continued engagement in international networks, research collaboration, and knowledge dissemination, Amrita is helping to advance a global movement toward more effective, equitable, and sustainable approaches to development that benefit communities and the planet.
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