TERI, Dell launch 'Climate EduXchange'

Global systems and services company Dell, in partnership with the The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), on Tuesday launched ‘The Climate Eduxchange’ – an IT-enabled initiative to improve environment education in schools across India.

The campaign aims to raise awareness and understanding about climate change issues among students and teachers of all disciplines a press release said today.

The Climate EduXchange programme, in harmony with Dell’s YouthConnect initiative, will reach out to six cities – Bangalore, Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai, Mohali and Pune. It will include children from classes V to XI from 50 schools in each city. They will be divided into five clusters and one school from each cluster will be identified as the nodal school (Dell-TERI Knowledge Centres).

“The project Climate EduXchange will harness the power of ICT (information communication technology) providing a web platform for school students from six identified cities of the country to share information and ideas across disciplines, about how climate change is affecting them and how India might best secure a path towards sustainable development,” said Ranjana Saikia, associate director of TERI.

The Climate EduXchange programme, in harmony with Dell’s YouthConnect initiative, will reach out to six cities – Bangalore, Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai, Mohali and Pune. It will include children from classes V to XI from 50 schools in each city. They will be divided into five clusters and one school from each cluster will be identified as the nodal school (Dell-TERI Knowledge Centres).

Dell-TERI Knowledge Centres will be set up in the nodal schools which will be equipped with computers and other hardware and software. These centres will be accessible to all the cluster schools, the release added.