COMPOLL - "Combating environmental pollution through internationalisa­tion of education in Germany and India"

Together with IIT Delhi against environmental pollution

In the light of the constantly increasing human population, a minimisation of the impact of mankind’s actions on the environment becomes a vital issue. The noise, air or water pollution as well as waste management have become one of the greatest global challenges that humans ever faced. The accomplishment of this task is particularly difficult considering the necessity of comprehensive cross-national cooperation of societies with their different development stages, language diversity and cultural backgrounds as well as their local problems and beliefs.

Within the framework of the joint call for proposals "Indo-German Partnerships in Higher Education" (IGP) of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Indian University Grants Commission (UGC), the bilateral project "Combating Environmental Pollution through Internationalisation of Education" (COMPOLL) was launched 2020, which the Institute of Lightweight Engineering and Polymer Technology (ILK) is implementing together with the Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi).

The IIT Delhi and the TU Dresden have been working together for many years in various scientific disciplines such as mechanical engineering, rotordynamics, tribology or computer science in order to ensure resource efficiency of products, processes, sustainable systems and materials. But a strategic cooperation to combat pollution and reduce the human footprint requires overarching cooperation between main environment-focussed players on the Indian and German sides. The present project aims at bundling the existing contacts and activities and putting them at the service of increasing pollution awareness by means of waste reduction and recycling, utilisation of biologically based materials as well as return to design solutions allowing repair and overhaul. The aim of the project is to help intensify cooperation between the two universities over the next four years by intensifying partnership at the institutional level and developing and implementing innovative teaching and research profiles. In addition to curricular design, the planned activities include the implementation of summer schools, workshops and conferences, and several study and research visits to the respective partner are also planned. The project is based on the long-standing history of cooperation between the ILK and the IIT Delhi. An overarching goal of the DAAD and the UGC is to network all project partners funded under the IGP on both the Indian and German sides in order to facilitate an exchange of experiences and to exploit possible synergies.

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