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In this direction, Shell supports the objectives of the UKIERI initiative, which hopes to be flexible and responsive to the needs of these partners so that the good ideas that contribute to the relevance, sustainability and impact of the partnerships will be welcomed  |
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“Shell is delighted to be one of the industry sponsors of the UK-India Education and Research Initiative. As a sponsor, we look to this Initiative to promote interest in |
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scientific and technical careers, already at a school level, and to provide valuable research projects into areas of interest to industry and society at large. Last, but not least, we see this as a vehicle to promote academic cooperation between India and the UK, both countries in which Shell has a prominent presence” |
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products the energy and petro-chemicals that growing economies need, its operations also make a strong, positive contribution to the development of society at large. Shell is aware of the efforts of the new UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI), which aims to create a 'step change' in educational relations between India and the UK over the next five years, so that in the longer term the two countries become each other's partner of choice in education.
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hell has been a proactive supporter of the UKIERI School Strand. The cluster between Bristol City, UK and Delhi II has been assigned |
to Shell for sponsorship. The focus area of this cluster is Environmental Sciences with cross curricular involvement. Dr Geoff Nesbitt, Chief Research Officer, Shell Technologies India and Ms Usha Soni, Extra Mural Officer, Shell India have been intrinsically involved in interaction with the Head Teachers of their cluster and have specially conducted a planned visit to each of the six cluster schools to meet with the teachers and the students and identify areas in which they could further support the partnership |
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hell's areas of interest have been modified and published in the ongoing UKIERI Research Awards as Smart technologies to manage and operate oil production, CO2 Sequestration, Petroleomics – Understanding of Crude oils at molecular level – Physical Property correlation to molecular structures, |
Clean Coal Technology, Chemo metrics. Shell's partner institutions have given an enthusiastic response to the proposed workshops for the research awards and we hope to have a good number of applications in their areas of interest |
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