The SAGE Impact Leaders will be both Indian and International students registered at participating institutes. For information on the Junior and Senior Ambassadors, please see: https://sites.google.com/echonetwork.in/sagereport2023/home. The PhD SAGE Fellows will be selected through National and International calls in early 2024. The projects will be supported for three years (a typical PhD fellowship period).
Host Institute: Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas (CTARA), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay
Host Academic Supervisor: Amit Y. Arora, Professor, Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas (CTARA), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay
Co-Project Supervisors:
Gerd Seibold, Associate Professor, Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, The Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Lene Lange, Professor (f), PhD & Dr.Scient., LL-BioEconomy
Sanjib Sarangi, Vice President & Head - Natural Resource-based Livelihood Programs, India Grameen Services
Padma Ishwarya S., Science and Technology Specialist, Good Food Institute (GFI) India
Advisors:
Chandana Tekkatte, Science & Technology Specialist, Good Food Institute (GFI) India
Contributors:
Apoorv Garg, Co-Founder, altM
Padmapriya T S, Chief Executive - India Sanitation First India
Sidestreams toolkit for the valorization of feedstocks as effective sidestreams for farmers
Chemical and environmental analysis of feedstocks
Product development
Contextualized recommendations
A sidestreams toolkit for the technical economic and environmental feasibility of valorizing selected feedstocks.
Agri experts
Biorefinery experts
Nanocellulose experts
Industrial partners
ESG experts
Existing datasets
Access to feedstocks
Molecular and analytical labs