The United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to mobilise global efforts to 'transform our world' (UN, 2017) so as to address major challenges facing global society, such as achieving food security and nutrition for all (SDG 1, 2, 3, 8 &12). We will focus on India where agricultural sector which contributes more than 17.5% to its GDP, employs 250 million people and remains the backbone of India's rural population, which comprises almost 67% of the country's 1.3 billion population. Yet, most of India's farmers still remain under poverty. Merely 4% of India's food is moved through the cold chain compared to 70% in the UK, resulting in as much as 40% wastage, particularly in fresh fruits and vegetables, between farm and market. This reduces farmers' income, which in turn limits their capacity to invest and their incentive to grow more nutritious food. Whilst inadequate cold supply chain infrastructure results in large amount of wastage in fresh produce, inadequate value creation and the impact of climate change on agriculture productivity and food loss has led to increasing number of farmers suicide. Moreover, India has highest number of organic farmers globally but these farmers, who produce most of the country's high-value and high-nutrition foods, have little access to integrated cold chains. Indian farmers simply do not have financial resources to invest in precision agriculture and cold chain infrastructure development. With PM Modi's target of "doubling farmers' income by 2022", India necessitates a stronger case of technological intervention along with innovative business models and effective policies that double the income of farmers and maximise value for every stakeholder in the supply chain. The project TRANSSITioN will use a food systems approach to identify relevant STFC and indigenous technologies for digitising small-scale agriculture production, connecting farmers to supply chain, reducing food loss and managing food surplus. We will also identify relevant business and supply chain finance models supporting such technological interventions and ways in which different actors across the cold food chain could be engaged to directly and indirectly shape development outcomes. We will create "Sustainable Cold Food Chain Incubator Hub" (TRANSSITioN Hub) in India built on STFC ground breaking technologies from RAL Space (Thermal modelling, remote sensing, drone applications, Infrared Thermography), cryogenics from ASTeC and Cryox, data science capabilities (big data analytics, artifical intelligence) of STFC and IBM Research at Hartree Centre, along with interdisciplinary team from supply chain management, business sustainability, political science, food science, agriculture and material sciences, international research and stakeholder collaboration. The WPs will be applied to a set of two case studies starting from farms (organic and conventional) to consumption centre, co-identified with in-country partners. Hyderabad and Chennai region have been identified for the pilot project. Being host to companies such as such as Amazon, Flipkart, Jubilant Foods, Johnson & Johnson and Procter & Gamble, this region has become a consumer centric food logistics hub. With an established network of 50,000 organic farmers, processors, technology providers and retailers the selected region strongly aligns with the core competencies of our research agenda. Unfortunately, this region also had the second highest number of farmers suicide in 2016. Project TRANSSITioN, therefore, aims to forge a sustainable framework to meet different economic, social and commercial priorities of varied stakeholders to usher socio-economic change through value maximisation.

This project engages with creative practices across a number of borders, in geographical, conceptual, disciplinary and genre terms. We are interested in addressing questions of media change, social mobility and creative collaboration (eg. at international art festivals and biennales), paying particular attention to border-crossings and transcultural engagement (joint work, media linkings, transfers, recontextualisations). We pursue this insofar as border crossings in several senses have creative, economic and social implications for new visual, aural and dynamic cultural debates. Conceptually, we are interested in performitivity, transgression, affect, aesthetics, inclusion/exclusion, precarious lifestyles, labour, the economics and materials of creative practice, adventure, dissonance, inspiration. We will develop this through a network of research scholars and through laboratory work that draws on collaborative cross border affiliations among what we will call a multitude of creative vernacular cosmopolitanisms.\n\nWe want to put researchers with Border experience (Europe, Berlin, India, Bengal) into active movement around our theme, so this project takes up questions of creative and cultural practice that are aural, visual and performative in a primary and structuring way. Starting from a critique of linearity and the hegemony of text, this initiative occurs in the context of challenges and changes impacting the creativity of the Arts, as part of the movement-oriented conception of a creative cosmopolitanism that is insurgent world-wide today. We suggest that creative practices thought of as movement provoke a radical challenge to the traditional boundaries between, and conceptualisation of, previously more stable textual formations in academic frameworks, genres, forms, and media. What is great about this idea is that we see communication as a space that is a dynamic contact zone, a place of transformation, of transgression and innovation. In painting, photography, performance, radio, cinema, video and design, new dynamics and ideas offering seemingly dangerous cross-border innovations promise to forge a new scholarship of movement, creativity and excitement. The border crossing innovations established in this contact zone offer much that is worthy of examination and development. \n\nThe project assumes that the contemporary conjuncture is framed by / and stands out as a reaction to / domestic initiatives in contemporary cultural resource management conceived as business. The dialectical syncopation here reacts critically to old school commercialization and industry writ large. Opportunities abound, entrepreneurs swoop; but they do so in ways that perhaps also need to be rethought in the radical terminology of flow and mobility that escapes the rule and text books of convention. The context for this includes the discursive formation of multiple globalisations, cultural encounters and interaction of tension and conflict, dialogic engagements between those whose practices stem from different cultural spheres and political orientations. All this needs to be rethought. A second tendency running against the commercial script is the development of new media and patterns of cultural agency that transform expectations today / diasporic media and cross border initiatives (radio, piracy, biennales, international aspects of Documenta etc) are rapidly forging new and exciting kinds of creative collaboration. Contemporary creativity may, in this situation, conspicuously adopt and appropriate the technologies and forms of commercial broadcast for surprising and subversive ends. The third tendency is the new convergence between culture and commodities. The productivity of hybrid, mixed, fusion forms of creativity offers irony, play, critique and inspiration as resources to commerce (this can of course be questioned) and the idea that there is only one 'mass' form of commodification or 'culture industry' is passing, outmoded or obsolete.

The project’s main objective is to identify and analyse fluxes and patterns of internal and transborder human migration induced by climate change. The observational study will take place in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) Delta in India and Bangladesh and the Mekong Delta in Viet Nam and Cambodia. The studies’ outputs will allow us to provide to governments and public actors involved accurate measures in a decision making process. These outputs will be based on the development of innovative analytical methodologies in order to support human migration and displacement and design adaptation solutions for local population. The cross-border aspect of these deltas and the issues they face by the diversity of their political links will allow the project to produce methodological tools and recommendations on migration management useful for the European Agenda on Migration. The project’s outputs will also respond to the objectives of the Paris Agreement in terms of local sustainable development. These two deltas (GBM and Mekong) are highly populated (respectively 1000 and 500 inhabitants/km2) and heavily exposed to monsoon, rainwater floods, flash floods, and cyclones floods as well as to the induced effects of climate change. Human Migration linked to climate change should lead by 2030 to a demographic spatial restructure of areas and territories already highly under pressure in most coastal and metropolitan cities. Access to services and housings for the new-comers are considered challenging for the hosting local authorities, notably in terms of forecasting urban planification and investment, in a precarious context of social and property policies. The project aims at an early stage, to produce tools to evaluate the vulnerability of human population migrating and local population in order to submit recommendations on land use planning on ‘under pressure urban and rural territories. Migration drivers are physical, social, and economic and differ according to the impacted communities. Risk perception is different for these communities, and their mitigation measures are usually traditional in terms of housing construction and adapted solutions. The project MOVINDELTA will include the integration of empirical analysis and computer-based social simulation modelling linking documentary evidence and socio-economic and -political data with model design, including a cognitive architecture, model source code and the outputs from simulation models. For the project considered as a whole, the specificity - and strength - of our consortium is to gather experts from very different fields, ranging from social and human sciences to fundamental environmental sciences. Our consortium has established a long-lasting collaborative framework with local institutes in Third as well as European countries working together on climate change, risks and vulnerability of population. Several projects in the GBM and Mekong deltas have been concluded successfully from this collaboration, leading to a strong network in the field of science, social sciences and sustainable development. Finally, the aim of the project is to broaden the partnership to researchers, lecturers, professors, the civil society (NGO) but also the private sector at an European (Germany, Netherlands and UK) and international level to extend the disciplinarity potential of the project within the call.

INDIA-H20 will develop, design and demonstrate high-recovery, low-cost water treatment systems for saline groundwater and industrial wastewaters. The focus for developments will be in the arid state of Gujarat, where surface water resources are very scarce. We will develop novel batch-reverse osmosis technology for a 10-fold reduction in specific energy consumption with high fractions of water recovery (80%) reducing /m3 operating costs to below €0.35/m3 (<30 rupees/m3). Forward osmosis will be developed and piloted for use in wastewater recovery applications including hybrid arrangements with reverse osmosis for further reduction in energy consumption. These solutions will be demonstrated in small-scale rurally relevant low-cost systems for brackish groundwater treatment for use as safe drinking water, which will be extended to include phyto-technology solutions for rural domestic wastewater treatment. Systems will remove salinity and emerging pollutants (e.g. agricultural chemicals), valorise rejected brines in halophytic crop cultivation. For specific industrial wastewater in textile, desalination and dairy we will develop and demonstrate cost-effective high-efficiency hybrid technologies for water recycling with minimum liquid discharge, using advanced membrane technologies to achieve the required water quality for recycling. A centre of excellence will be established in water treatment membrane technologies, design operation and monitoring. Activities such as supply chain mapping and EU India collaboration on developing industrial scale forward osmosis membranes and batch-RO systems will support the development of business models to exploit the developed solutions to mutual EU/India economic advantage. We will analyse and produce policy briefs on economic models and governance arrangements for viable adoption of the developed systems.