IGSD News
Horizon Europe SHAPEDEM-EU annual progress meeting in Krakow
Horizon Europe SHAPEDEM_EU project, launched in October 2022, has had its first annual in-person meeting in Krakow on 9-11 October 2023. The meeting brought together 12 institutional members of the consortium, to share and discuss knowledge co-production by different Work-Packages (WPs), and to engage with the EU officials on the developments in the EU neighbourhoods. In particular, Warwick team leading WP2 on assessing democracy promotion in the eastern neighbourhood, engaged with WP1 - the conceptual framework of the project - and discussed the progress and challenges for WP2 in undertaking fieldwork in Eastern Europe and capturing perceptions and practices of democracy on ground, covering Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, and the Caucasus - the countries affected by war, conflict, and internal/external oppression.
Warwick University Appoints EKKI Co-CEO Kanishka Arumugam as IGSD Honorary Fellow
Kanishka Arumugam, Co-CEO of EKKI Water Technologies, has been appointed as an Honorary Fellow at the University of Warwick's Institute for Global Sustainable Development (IGSD)Link opens in a new window.
Kanishka joined us at Scarman in June 2023 for our Sustainability Training SchoolLink opens in a new window and gave an innovative plenary to our successful early career researcher closing the week for our cohort. We hope to welcome Kanishka again to speak and inspire the cohort at our training school in April 2024.
ECR STS 2.0 (Global): new funding awarded
Happy to announce our #ECRSTS 2.0 (Global) application is supported again by @uniofwarwick ERCF! I thank my @IGSD_UoW colleagues for their effort & support. We all look forward to working with a new & existing cohorts of #ECRs from around the globe! Themes Resilience, Climate emergency and Water Security.
Celebrating Research Impact with IGSD
Celebrating Impact once again @uniofwarwick! Impact Newsletter Summer 2023 reminded us that @IGSD_UoW makes a strong impact across the board: Warm congrats to Dr Vangelis Pitidis once again for making a difference in the world as an Early Career Researcher!
WOW award
Rachael Kirwan, IGSD Manager, was recognised as part of the WMG WOW award - led by Margaret Low. Stuart Croft, our Vice-Chancellor, had this to say about WMG's win:
"Margaret and all of her colleagues have been working so hard on the Royal Institution outreach programme, inspiring schoolchildren to become the engineers of the future."