Project - Redfort
Scholarships awarded to four graduate students who will study at The Energy Research Institute (TERI) University in New Delhi from
September 2009.
Background: (TERI) University in Delhi has an excellent reputation within environmental academic circles. It is chaired by Dr Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize), and has exchange programmes in place with Yale and Berlin Freie universities. We were put in touch with TERI by the CEO of SCC India, Mr Umesh Sahdev, who has already hired five graduates from TERI for his team. SCCF met all of these individuals and were immensely impressed with their quality and professionalism. TERI are approached each year for funded postgraduate diploma places by a small number of graduates from countries such as Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, East Africa and Nepal. To date they have been turned down as TERI only administers two scholarship grants (from HSBC and one of the Indian power companies) and they are both for Indian students only.
TERI University is pleased to be working with SCCF in its scholarship programme. With SCCF's help we hope to broaden our student intake to include countries in Africa and West Asia, where post-graduate teaching in disciplines such as energy conservation, sustainable development and Climate Change are not at such an advanced level as at TERI University.
Captain Rajiv Seth, Registrar, TERI University
What we have done: The MSc courses that we fund are for sustainable energy, energy efficiency and resources management. TERI is currently attracting 8-10 applicants per SCCF scholarship. We vet the applications and make selections (two foreign students, two local). We have now granted MSc scholarships (Renewable Energy Engineering and Management, and Environmental and Resource Economics) to two African scholars with two domestic scholars in line to begin their studies in September 2009.
The next step: We are in discussion with a number of other partner universities with the goal of funding similar scholarships and, in some cases, re-designing course modules to address specific local challenges.