Chennai District

Organizers:

The Center of Excellence for Change in Colloboration with GoTN IAMWARM Project and UNICEF have organised a Conference Cum Workshop " Water Partnerships towards Meeting the Climate Challenge" on 6th&7Th Jan

Organizers:

• South Asian Fund Raising Group (SAFRG)
• Sundaram Medical Foundation (SMF)

Venue: Sundaram Medical Foundation Auditorium, Dr. Rangarajan Memorial Hospital, Chennai

Description:

In this workshop, our international fundraising experts - Julian Marland and Surat Sandhu - will introduce participants to the basic principles of major gift fundraising, which has been such a success in American universities for many decades, and is now being successfully adopted in other not-for-profit sectors in many other countries. They will demystify the process of asking for large amounts of money and give participants examples of successful strategies.

Organizer: Centre of Excellence for Change (CEC)

Venue: Hotel Taj Connemara, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Description:

Water is the climate challenge and it poses a major risk for the water security of the citizens of India. The Challenge varies across States and is eliciting a wide range of responses from the stakeholders at different levels.

India Maritime Technology Conference 2011
Theme: "Sharpening India’s Sea Vision"

Organizer: Indian Institute of Technology - Madras

Venue: Indian Institute of Technology - Madras

Description:

The primary objective of this short term training program is to provide college teachers and professional engineers with a comprehensive understanding of GIS and remote sensing techniques relevant for studies related to water resources assessment.

This Civil Engineering Course under the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) on the broad subject of Water and Wastewater Engineering and Management is being carried out by Indian Institute of Technology’s and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore as a collaborative project supported by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (Government of India) to enhance the quality of engineering education in the country, by developing curriculum based video and web courses. In these web based lectures, the authors have developed the subject in detail and in stages in a student-friendly manner. The broad group of Water and Wastewater Engineering and Management is structured into modules on the following topics: