PROGRAM DETAILS
The CEP program for colleges is both faculty and student driven, with different engagement platforms catering to both audiences. The engagement has no fixed duration. However, we hope each institute sees this not only as a long term relationship with Wipro-earthian but also as an opportunity to become a partner in spreading the learning further and become a hub that other colleges can take inspiration from.
1. College sustainability internships
For students from winning institutes, earthian offers a diverse and unique range of sustainability related internship opportunities that can be undertaken for a period of two months. These internships are offered in partnership with our highly reputed partner organizations who are domain specialists in sustainability and related areas. The internships are a great opportunity for students to engage with interesting paradigms, schools of thought and innovations in the sustainability arena. Thematic areas include rainwater harvesting, natural capital accounting, biodiversity studies, environmental policy and governance, Green building etc.
Duration: 2 months (summer)
Students nominated per college: 2
Stipend: Paid by Wipro
2. Sustainability Education Symposiums
As a part of our long term vision to further sustainability education in India, WIPRO – earthian has embarked on a broad initiative to curate national level forums of leading colleges from across the country on the topic of ‘Symposium on Advancing Sustainability Research and Education’. The forum’s main objective will be to bring together a community of sustainability educators, share their learning experiences in sustainability, highlight specific case studies and promote potentially transformative role that integrating sustainability education can play in higher education. Since we expect this to be a faculty-driven initiative, we hope that key faculty from all colleges join us in this initiative.
Ongoing forums:
Annual B-school symposium
Annual Western region symposium (Design-Architecture-Engineering-Management)
3. Academic collaboration with Xavier University, Bhubaneshwar (XUB)
The main objective is to embark on a sustained long term collaboration between WIPRO and XUB to create new synergies for advancing the cause of inclusive education, mainstreaming sustainability and promoting sustainable development in the higher education arena.
SCOPE OF ACADEMIC COLLABORATION
Conferences and Workshops
Both WIPRO and XUB will jointly identify the topical themes for organizing national and international conferences with an objective of sharing the advancements/best practices in sustainability education as well as learning from other leading organizations. This will be achieved by organizing seminars/workshops/conferences at regular intervals for the gathering and dissemination of knowledge on sustainability and sustainable development.
Teachers for Sustainability Education
Sensitizing and training teachers in Universities, Colleges and Schools to create an enabling learning environment for mainstreaming sustainability education is crucial. WIPRO and XUB will endeavor to engage actively in building intergenerational leaders who can care for the environment and nurture our Common Home. To aid this process XUB will be the designated regional Hub/nodal institute for Wipro earthian in Eastern India: Focusing on Engineering, Medical and other professional colleges.
Sustainability Discovery Program (SDP)
Curate authentic domain exposure for XSOS students as a part of their Sustainability Discovery Program. This will involve connecting the earthian partner ecosystem with students for field based learning and micro research on sustainability and sustainable development.
Sustainability internships
Facilitate summer sustainability internships for students at XSOS with expert partner organizations, subject to interviews and other screening processes. The internships are an opportunity to engage with interesting paradigms, schools of thought and innovations in the sustainability arena. Thematic areas of internships could include Rainwater Harvesting, Natural Capital Accounting, Biodiversity studies, Environmental Policy and Governance, Green Building, Aquifer Mapping, Renewable Energy integration, Climate Modelling.
4. Wipro Sustainability Fellowship
WIPRO and the IIM, Bangalore have embarked on a long term collaboration where WIPRO will support the award of a fellowship termed the Wipro Sustainability Fellowship for doctoral students at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB). The Fellowship are awarded to students whose research interests and work fall within the following areas/themes:
There are various domains within which research on Sustainability has been conducted. These, and associated themes, include:
- Accounting: Green accounting
- CSR
- Economics: Sustainable growth; fair trade;
- Education
- Environment: Energy and renewable resources
- Ethics and values
- Decision Sciences: sustainable supply chains
- Marketing: sustainability and new products
- Public Policy: regulation enabling sustainability