Mata Amritanandamayi, Chancellor of Amrita University, will deliver the keynote address during the coming conference at the United Nations on technology and sustainable development in July.
The chancellor will address the first programme on July 8, which will include a series of events at the UN titled ‘Skills and technology accelerating rapid transformation.’
According to a release, faculty from the University will later present research work they have undertaken in collaboration with renowned universities such as Cambridge, EPFL, Monash, the National University of Singapore, Oxford, Stanford and Twente.
At the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI), a global initiative that aligns institutions of higher education with the U.N. in furthering the realisation of the purposes and mandate of the U.N. through activities and research in a shared culture of intellectual social responsibility, an online portal created by the University would also be inaugurated. The portal would encourage discussions and collaborations among university researchers worldwide on technology for global sustainable development.
Dean of Research at the University, Shantikumar Nair, said, “Skills and technologies readily translatable to society as well as sustainable development have long been one of the guiding forces behind Amrita’s research and research-deployment efforts.”
