Last week, we held our seventh biannual symposium for our global SUNRISE partners on the theme of ‘Energy Sustainability and Water’. This year, it was IIT Kanpur’s turn to host and would have been held on their campus, but due to Covid-19 regulations we were on zoom once more. With the support of NanoGe, and […]
Next Monday, Indian innovator and education reformer Sonam Wangchuk will be presenting at our biannual SUNRISE symposium, hosted online this year by IIT Kanpur. Find out a bit more about him below, and why we are excited to hear him talk. Wangchuk is known for inventing the ‘Ice Stupa’, an artificial glacier used for storing […]
The announcement was made by the SUNRISE project, led by Swansea University, during a showcase of British-Indian innovation attended by UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, in front of an audience of potential collaborators and investors. The Active Buildings concept has already been proven to work. The Active Office and Classroom, built on Swansea University’s campus, […]
Swansea University in collaboration with international and UK institutions has lifted the International Collaboration of the Year trophy at the sixteenth annual THE Awards. The THE Awards – widely referred to as the ‘Oscars of higher education’ – are the biggest celebration in the UK HE calendar, attracting hundreds of entries from individuals, teams and […]
Professor Satish Patil, Dr Chithambararaj and their team at IISc Bangalore have successfully installed a 5.2kW solar-powered micro-grid in a primary health centre in Gudageri, Dharwad. The health centre provides care for 20-30,000 people from nearby rural villages, including delivering an average of 10 infants per month. They have a maternity unit and a deep […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unforeseeable disruption worldwide and forced us all to find creative alternatives to our usual ways of working. We were disappointed to be unable to host our biannual symposium in Swansea this year as planned, but despite this, we were still able to have a successful conference via online platforms. We […]
SUNRISE has been selected as a case study for an OECD report on ‘Addressing societal challenges using transdisciplinary research.’ In May 2019, Dan Sparks, Policy Manager (Global Challenges Research Fund) at UKRI, recommended SUNRISE as a potential ‘good practice’ case study for an OECD Global Science Forum project focused on analysing the theory, methods, and […]
Dr Matthew Davies has been named as an Honorary Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in Durban, South Africa. Dr Davies has been working with the South African University since 2009, when he first visited UKZN at the end of his PhD. He has run several events both in Swansea in Durban, mainly focusing […]
Professor Satish Ogale has joined as Director of the new Research Institute for Sustainable Energy (RISE). RISE was started by The Chatterjee Group in Kolkata as part of their ‘Centre for Research and Education in Science and Technology (CREST)’ initiative, which is a not-for-profit section 25 company to promote higher education and research in India, […]
We have received a 2019 Royal Society International Collaboration Award to print photovoltaics in Mexico using their existing screen-printing infrastructure. As part of the Global Challenge Research Fund (GCRF), the Royal Society award enables UK research leaders to develop international collaborations with the best researchers from around the world, to work on some of the […]