Amrita alumni members met with a visiting faculty team at Hof Herrenberg, Germany on November 3, 2018.
Amrita professors Dr. Maneesha V. Ramesh, Dean, Amrita Center for International Programs (ACIP) and Dr. Krishnashree Achuthan, Dean, PG Programs, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, visited KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, and met with Amritians at the university.
Rao R. Bhavani, Director of Ammachi labs, Amritapuri and UNESCO Chairholder in Women’s Empowerment & Gender Equality, and Dr. Maneesha V. Ramesh, Dean of Amrita Center for International Programs and Director, Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (AmritaWNA), Amritapuri, visited the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.
Amrita’s unique experiential learning program, called Live-in-Labs®, is becoming one of the most sought-after fieldwork-based programs for international students.
The villagers of Mothakara, Kerala have benefited from an Amrita Live-in-Labs® project to design, develop and implement solar thermal powered lemongrass essential-oil distilleries, sustainably reviving a generations-old source of income.
Dr. Ram Manohar, Director of Amrita Centre for Advanced Research in Ayurveda and Principal Investigator of Indo-Italy Project relating Amrita’s cooperation with Università degli Studi di Milano (UNIMI), visited collaborators of Amrita in Italy.
A team of Amrita professors visited University of Twente, Netherlands. Arranged by the Amrita Center for International Programs, ACIP, the visit by the Amrita delegation facilitates thesis internships, student exchanges and new research collaborations between the two Universities.
A team of 23 Ph. D. scholars and faculty members of AMMACHI Labs, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, under the guidance of Dr. Tarek Rashed, Co-Founder of Civilizology LLC, visited a tribal community in Nellarachal in Wayanad district of Kerala, from October 12- 15, 2018, to test the conceptual framework of the vulnerability mapping project.
An Amrita delegation visited our partner universities in Spain and some other universities in the region.
A team of ten members with eight students from Amrita Humanitarian Technology (HuT) Labs, and two from the Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering (ECE), School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus, had the opportunity to take part in one of the world’s largest robotic contests at the World Robot Summit (WRS 2018).