Dr Kiran C Patel Centre for Sustainable Development
The Dr Kiran C Patel Centre for Sustainable Development (KPCSD) at IIT Gandhinagar undertakes cutting-edge research on sustainability and related challenges of high societal importance. It promotes cost-effective and sustainable solutions through its strong outreach and technology-transfer programmes.
KPCSD strengthens and complements sustainability research and development activities underway at IITGN across diverse Engineering, Science, and Humanities and Social Science disciplines. The Centre strives to identify, prioritize and lead sustainability-related thrust areas and promote research on sustainability. The Centre enables our faculty and students to develop practical solutions through the integration of advanced research, traditional knowledge and field understanding. It addresses major sustainability challenges and translates them into prototypes, patents, and publications through supporting various research activities of the faculty and students of IITGN.
The Centre enables the implementation/testing/validation of laboratory research in the field and focuses on impactful solutions on campus and its neighbouring communities. It aims to promote networking and collaboration among scholars, policymakers, industry, non-profit organizations and other stakeholders on sustainability.
