AdaptNET (Strengthening education, research and innovation for climate-smart crops in India)

Thematic area

  • Education
  • Climate Change


Project type

  • Education


Country

  • Europe
  • India


Duration

  • 2018 – 2021


Partners

  • Agricultural University of Athens
  • Università Politecnica delle Marche
  • Academy of Sciences, Athens
  • Assam Agriculture University, Assam, India
  • University of Tezpur, India
  • Agricultural University of Dharwad, India
  • ICRISAT, Hyderabad, India.


Scientific supervisor

  • Carlo Pozzi


Founded by

  • ERASMUS Programme

Snapshot of project

ObjectivesBeneficiaries
AdaptNET is a 3-year (2018-2021)  project that will support financially the mobility of Indian scientists, strengthening their competencies in climate change-related topics, and fostering a generation of high-level teachers in India. AdaptNET will:
1. Train 30 Indian scientists through the participation in four specially designed workshops;
2. Provide 16 scholarships to Indian nationals for refining their scientific formation in climate-change-related topics;
3. Update existing graduate programs at Indian Institutions, focusing them on climate-smart crops;
4. Establish e-learning laboratories in India.
DIRECT: 30 faculties at Indian HEIs; 16 PHDs at Indian HEIs; >400 students at 4 Indian HEIs
INDIRECT: 2 Indian Farmers Coop; Indian farmers
Role of UNIMI
Responsible of the dissemination WP and of the Quality Assurance process; organizer of one workshop.
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