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P has a long tradition of contributing to communities via education in many different countries. Their social investment programme |
is focused on sustainability, and they believe that education can give people skills and knowledge they need to achieve it. As a founding member of the UN Global Compact, BP is a recognised
leader in corporate responsibility and
produces an annual Sustainability
Report. Says Pia MacRae, Director Communications & External Affairs, BP India ''In the UK, the 40-year old Schools Link Programme complements the work we are doing, supporting research at tertiary levels at institutions like Imperial College and Cambridge University. In China, the Environmental Educator's Initiative supports a network of pilot schools and 21 environmental education centres at teacher training universities. We also work extensively with Tsinghua
University and the Chinese Academy of
Sciences supporting the study of clean
energy technologies. We believe that
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globe. Our support for education focuses on issues that affect our future. And in the context of bilateral relations between the UK and India, collaboration in education truly does have that potential”  |
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e appreciate BP's contribution to the evaluation |
process of the UKIERI Research Awards in the
last quarter of 2006. Justin Adams ,
Director - Strategy, Venturing and
Innovation, Group Technology, BPand his team
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process, which involved several stages of
stringent evaluation. Two of the projects
recommended by the team, Combinatorial Material
Science applied to development of high
temperature shape memory alloys, from Imperial College, London and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and Science of Regional climate Change, Variability and Impacts, from the University of Reading and the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, went on to be awarded the prestigious Major Awards |
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ongratulations to the team who had
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courage to create UKIERI. This Initiative has the potential to significantly enhance cultural, scientific and educational links between our two countries. Congratulations too, to those who have won awards in what have clearly been a highly competitive and rigorous selection process.” |
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chool cluster partnerships have been an area of |
focus in the UKIERI-BP partnership. BP sponsors the Leicester Delhi 1 Cluster and the focus area of this cluster is Environmental Sciences. Pia MacRae, Director of Communications and External Affairs, BP India and Sanjeev Lowe, Vice President, External Affairs, BP India have devoted valuable time and efforts to the School Strand and have initiated interactions with the head teachers and lead teachers of the six schools of their cluster. Ideas have been exchanged on the projects being undertaken by the schools with their partner schools in the UK, in the areas of environmental studies. This engagement |
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has also been extended to young, avid students from several schools in the cluster, who were BP's special guests at the Petro Tech Exhibition in New Delhi. Senior BP scientists, gave personalised presentations to the students on areas such as oil exploration and alternative energy, which the children reported as a thrilling and useful experience. We have just begun to lay the foundations of BP's engagement in the School Strand of UKIERI. We aim to enhance this to a more structured, relevant and mutually productive level in the future, in areas of mutual interest such as renewable energy |
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