Indo-German Centre for Sustainability (IGCS)
The Indo-German Centre for Sustainability (IGCS) is a source for proactive sustainability transformation and knowledge transfer. In order to achieve that, IGCS offers funding opportunities for individual research exchange for junior and senior researchers from both Germany and India. Another focus of IGCS are the well-attended Summer and Winter Schools carried out in both countries, with knowledge transfer along with intercultural training.
With its vast network of scientists and practitioners and regular activities, IGCS is a source of inspiration with a broad range of skills, conceptual models and standards, as well as best-practice examples for proactive transformation.
IGCS and motan ally to tackle sustainability challenges in the field of plastics. In 2021, they conducted the first virtual IGCS – motan workshop on the topic of Challenges and Strategies in the Management of Plastics. The two-day workshop entailed Impulse lectures with speakers from Industry, Academia and Civil Society as well as Group work of the students.