Developing River Sensitive Cities – Stockholm World Water Week 2021

Expert Panelists & Attendees:
Mr. Rajiv Ranjan Mishra, Director General – NMCG
Dr. Victor Shinde, NIUA
Mr. R. Srinivas, Town & Country Planning Organisation
Dr. Suresh Rohilla, CSE
Dr. Mona Iyer, CEPT University

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Dr. Anitha Kumari Sharma, Counsellor Urban Development with Focus on Water, Royal Danish Embassy
Prod. Srinivas Chary, ASCI
Prof. Vinod Tare, IIT Kanpur & Founding Head C Ganga

Co-hosted by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), the Horasis India Meeting has become the foremost annual meeting of Indian business leaders and their global counterparts and Ministers of the Government of India. The goal of the meeting is to jointly inspire India’s future. Dr. Taneha K. Bacchin, on behalf of W4C and the TU Delft will participate in the panel “Industry-Academic Collaborations to Achieve the SDGs”.

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European Universities are increasingly committed to bringing impact for society globally, and academic-industry collaborations in Indian on such topics as negative emissions, water sanitation and urbanism & affordable housing endeavor to this end. Why are academia-industry collaborations important for providing such solutions? What complementarities exist in collaborations between Indian and foreign partners?

Pannelist:

– Aravind Purushothaman Vellayani, Professor, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

– Saket Pande, Assistant Professor, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

– Ajit Mathai, Founding Partner, mByom, India

– Priyanka Kaushal, Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India

– Taneha Bacchin, Assistant Professor, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Chaired by

– Marie Kummerlowe, Policy Advisor, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

– Krista Knopper, Senior Advisor, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

On July 12th 2021 the Ministry of Economic Affairs (EZK), Dutch Research Council (NWO) and Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) organized a round table as part of a series of round tables to help shape up a new knowledge and innovation agenda with India. The round tables will focus on societal challenges related to Water Agriculture and Health and the cross cutting key enabling technologies. This so called WAH! Agenda which was announced at the Techsummit in New Delhi in October 2019 will help guide future investments in science technology and innovation.

In the session regarding the Highlights of Cooperation, chaired by Dr Neelima Alam, Scientist F, TMD (EWO), DST India, four Indo-Dutch flagship Water programmes were introduced, including DST-NWO Water4Change – presented by Dr Mona Iyer (CEPT University) & Dr Taneha K. Bacchin (TU Delft).

On March 22th 2021 Centre for Water Resources Development and Management (CWRDM), Calicut, India, partner of W4C research programme organised an international webinar on observance of the World Water Day discussing the topic “Valuing Water”.

For the occasion of the UN World Water Day dr. Taneha Kuzniecow Bacchin and dr. Fransje Hooimeijer were featured as Dutch gender champion on water, celebrating women in science, by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in Mumbai and the Attache for Science, Technology and Innovation, Consulate General of the Kingdom of Netherlands.

The Word Water Day is an annual United Nations observance day held on 22 March to advocate for the sustainable management of freshwater resources). This announcement highlights the contribution of the five year-long Collaborative India-the Netherlands Research Programme ‘Water4Change’ (W4C), funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and the Department of Science and Technology of India (DST).

During the India-Netherlands TechSummit held in Delhi, October 2019, the project was awarded for the Indio-Dutch Cooperation by the hands of the Indian Minister of Science & Technology and of the King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima of the Netherlands.

The India-Netherlands Technology Summit 2019 was the 25th edition of the iconic annual conference-exposition organised jointly by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India.

Workshop of Indo-Netherlands W4C programme was Organised by Centre for Water and Sanitation (CWAS), CEPT Research and Development Foundation (CRDF). Funded by Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research (NWO).

Experts who have participated in the panel discussion at the one-day project launching workshop of W4C programme stressed the need for providing cost-effective technological solutions, knowledge and capacity building concerning effective governance and planning to tackle challenges facing by the cities selected for the execution of five-year mega project. …

The Centre for Water Resources Development and Management (CWRDM), operating under the Government of Kerala has launched the W4C. Under the project, six prominent institutions from Netherlands will perform a long-term research and field level action on urban water management systems along with Indian scientists.