Tag: Conferences and workshops
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UNESCO, Wales, and the Just Energy Transition
At a recent Welsh Government lunch and learn event about UNESCO, Anna Nsubuga, the current UK Ambassador and Permanent Delegate to UNESCO was introduced by Swansea University’s UNESCO Chair, Professor Matthew Davies. Anna’s presentation highlighted the strong links between UNESCO and Wales, and the ways that they can continue to work together on some of…
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Developing Skills For Perovskite Solar Cell Manufacture in South Africa
One of our key objectives at TEA@SUNRISE is skills development – to build the strength of our network and pave the way for local manufacture of solar cells. As part of our recent symposium (hosted by the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)), a group of Swansea researchers travelled to South Africa to work with UKZN staff…
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SUNRISE virtual international symposium on ‘Energy Sustainability and Water’
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…
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Indian innovator Sonam Wangchuk to give talk at upcoming SUNRISE symposium
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…
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Hosting a Conference During a Pandemic: SUNRISE Symposium 2020
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…
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SUNRISE International Symposium in Bengaluru, India
We recently gathered in Bengaluru for the fifth biannual SUNRISE Symposium. This year’s meeting saw speakers and attendees travelling all the way from Mexico and Kazakhstan as well as from across India and the UK. There was lots to discuss and plans to make for a very busy upcoming year! Day 1 The first day…
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Online UK-India Conference on Energy Storage Hosted by SUNRISE
Earlier this week, Dr Jenny Baker and SUNRISE conducted the first online UK-India workshop on electrochemical energy storage. Talks, questions, and networking were all available online. Megan Chick (SPECIFIC) writes about the advantages of a virtual event. SUNRISE is an international project to address global energy poverty with partners from India, Mexico, South Africa, and…
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SUNRISE biannual solar energy symposium in Oxford
SUNRISE has recently passed its second birthday as a GCRF project, and in the same month we held our fourth biannual conference! The symposium was hosted this time at the University of Oxford by Professor Henry Snaith. We were joined as usual by several of our partners across India and the UK, but this time…
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Community Involvement Workshop with Cap-A-Pie
Before we can install any buildings in India, we need to make sure that the receiving communities are fully on board. Without taking into account the human, historical, and social contexts, any new structures and technologies we introduce risk being rejected. We therefore need to involve residents in the process from the get-go to generate…
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International Conference on Solar Power at IIT Delhi
Nearly a year after our launch event in Pune, the SUNRISE partners met up in IIT Delhi at the beginning of February for the International Workshop and Conference on Perovskite and Hybrid Photovoltaics (ICPHPV), jointly supported by Newton Prize and British Council. Kindly hosted and organised by Professors Viresh Dutta (IIT Delhi) and Hari Upadhyaya…