Venue
Anil Agarwal Green College
38, Tughlakabad Institutional Area
New Delhi–110062
Organizers
Centre for Science and Environment
About the course
Interdisciplinary month-long summer certificate course on environment / development issues allows Indian participants to understand and critically evaluate issues that lie at the interface of environment & development; poverty; democracy, equity & justice.
Medium of Instruction: English
How it works
- Classroom lectures, seminars, several local field excursions, a week-long field visit to rural India, together with innovative, challenging project individual and/or group work. Participants are given an intense briefing on issues that are of concern to India and other developing countries.
- Field trips and meetings with communities serve to illustrate innovations and eco-restoration efforts that communities make to enable them to face the challenges of managing their natural resources base.
- Participants will get time to read, report, watch films and review them, attend seminars, and interact with guest speakers, eminent activists and policy makers.
- As part of their assignment, participants will put together a journalistic product -- online documentary project using text, video and audio; alternatively they will also report, edit and design a magazine.
Course fee
The course fee is Rs. 20000/-. This includes training fees, month long stay, local and outstation field excursions, select reading materials, together with lunch and refreshments during all training days.
- Course fee is Rs 8000/- (field trips, reading materials & meals)
- Stay cost for the month is Rs 12000/ (accommodation & meals in hostel). Several Kamla Chowdhry Fellowships are offered to participants to meet stay costs.
Please pay your fee (including the fee for accommodation) after your participation in the course is confirmed. When sending your draft/cheque, do mention on the envelope the name of the course. Email the draft/cheque number to course contact.
Kamla Chowdhry Fellowships
The prestigious Kamla Chowdhry Fellowships will be awarded to select outstation Indian candidates to cover their stay costs in Delhi.
Kamla Chowdhury was a distinguished academic and an ardent Gandhian, her multifaceted interests spanned issues relating to forestry, ecology, environment, women’s rights and people’s participation.
Eligibility and registration
A total of 25 participants will be selected. The course is open to young professionals and college students from any stream. Candidates are required to send their latest CV/resume with a short covering note to the emails given below. Alternately, you could fill in the application form and submit.
Contact details
Sharmila Sinha
Anil Agarwal Green College
Tel: 91-11-29955125, Ext: 270
Fax: 91-11-29955879
E-mail: sharmila@cseindia.org; cseindiasharmila@gmail.com