Host Institutions
This is a list of our Indian partners willing to host or that have already hosted TECO bursaries. They are experts from Research Centres, Universities and Private Companies. If you didn't find a suitable partner for you and your project, please write to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to ask for further matchmaking activities. Feel free to propose your own Indian partner, TECO Team will be glad to enlarge the network.
Location: Nagpur, Maharashtra
Main Topics: water resource management, water quality monitoring, water safety plan, environmental impact assessment, greywater treatment reuse, environmental sanitation, urban water supply, rural water supply, groundwater quality assessment and management.
Location: Nagpur, Maharashtra
Main topics: studies on occupational and environmental health risks due to exposure of pollutants and their mitigation. Ecotoxic risk assessment of environmental pollutants. Development of early diagnostic biomarkers for industrial and occupational exposure. Epidemiological studiy for assessing the environmental exposure induced human health effects Algal mediated CO2 mitigation and its conversion to useful products like bio-fuels and nutraceuticals. Preventing the deleterious effects of environmental exposure using phytochemicals.
Location: Nagpur, Maharashtra
Main topics: chemical engineering, municipal solid waste management, hazardous waste management, e-waste management, hydrogen production from solid residues, bioreactor landfills and demonstration of MSW management, specifically biomethanation and composting, facilities for rural areas.
National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI) - Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
Location: Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
Main topics: botanic garden and distant research centres, plant microbe interaction & pharmacogonosy, plant diversity, systematics and herbarium, genetics and molecular biology.
Location: Hyderabad, Telangana
Main topics: environmental geochemistry, environmental pollution and remediation, environmental analysis In Situ Chemical Oxidation (ISCO), heavy metals contaminated soils, sediments and waters.
Location: Karaikkudi, Tamil Nadu
Main topics: electrochemistry, treatment of drinking water containing inorganic and organic and persistent organic contaminants by electrocoagulation, treatment of drinking water containing Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) by advanced electrochemical oxidation (anodic oxidation, electro-Fenton) process, production and reactions of the oxygenated radicals, electrochemical synthesis of hypochlorite and hydrogen peroxide, electrochemical ozone generation based on PEM technology, Development of catalysts/membrane for Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) based water electrolyser for hydrogen generation. Development of materials for photo-electrochemical generation of hydrogen. Electrochemical biosensors, DNA sensors, bio-analytical chemistry, nanotechnology, targeted drug/gene delivery, metal free nanomaterials for electrocatalysis.
National Institute of Hydrology
Location: Roorke, Uttarakhand
Main topics: geoscience, hydrogeology, isotopes.
Department of Chemical Engineering - Indian Institute of Technology
Location: Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
Main topics: chemical engineering, environmental engineering (adsorption, environmental pollution control, synthesis and application of carbon nanofibres and nanoparticles, mathematical modelling and simulation, transport phenomena).
Department of Geology and Geophysics - Indian Institute of Technology
Location: Kharagpur, Bihar
Main topics: hydrogeology, geology, geochemistry.
Mechanical Engineering Department, Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology
Location: Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh
Main topics: mechanical engineering, gas and steam turbine plants, biodiesel
Department of Geology - Anna University
Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Main topics: geochemistry, hydrogeology, hydrology, groundwater modelling.
Department of Forestry - Mizoram University
Location: Aizawl, Mizoram
Main topics: ecosystem ecology, ecosystem analysis, ecosistem restoration and sustainability, biodiversity, prodictivity, carbon sequestration, biogeochemistry, soil-plant relations, forest and global environmenta change.
Department of Geography - Delhi School of Economics (DSE) - University of Delhi
Location: New Delhi, Delhi
Main topics: disaster management, remote sensing and GIS, environmental studies, climate change, urban regional development.
School of Environmental Sciences - Jawaharlal Nehru University
Location: New Delhi, Delhi
Main topics: environmental chemistry, water/wastewater monitoring, assessment, modeling & remediation using physicochemical methods. Development of low cost adsorbents/magnetic nanosorbents for water remediation. Biomass fast pyrolysis for the development of bio-oils and biochars, biorefineries, climate change mitigation: development & application of biochar for carbon sequestration. Applications of biochars for remediation of contaminated (metals & organic contaminants) soils.
School of Environmental Studies - Jadavpur University
Location: Kolkata, West Bengal
Main Topics: groundwater quality assessment and management, heavy metal pollution and its remediation, human health risk from groundwater, arsenic, fluoride, nitrate contamination and mitigation options, food chain contamintation throgh arsenic/fluoride contaminated irrigation water and remedial measurements, development of arsenic/fluoride/nitrate removal techniques based on low cost geological meterials (e.g. micas), microbiological processes and phytoremediation techniques, surface water contamination and mitigation strategies, health rosk from roadioactive elements like uranium in groundwater, geochemical and geohydrological studies, air pollution and its control, bioprocessing of slaughterhouse waste, microbial diversity in Sundarbans.
Insitute of Environment & Sustainable Development - Banaras Hindu University
Location: Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
Main topics: sustainability science, pesticide pollution, plant-microbe-pollutant interactions under changing climate, rhizoremediation of POPs, nanoparticles in soil system, restoration ecology, biomass/biofuel production from marginal & degraded lands, soil carbon flux & microbial response to climate change.
Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry - University of Agricultural Sciences
Location: Bangalore, Karnataka
Main topics: soil degradation & remediation, nutrient management in crops & soils, soil testing crop response studies, long term fertiliser experiment, sustainable nutrient management in agriculture, tracer aided studies in soil & plant nutrition, silicon in agriculture, environmental pollution & remediation, pesticide residues in soil, water and plants, recycling of industrial and farm wastes in agriculture, heavy metal contamination in soils, plants and waters, natural resource management in remote sensing & gis, development and application of analytical methods for testing soil, plant, water, fertiliser, pesticides and pollutants.
Chemistry Department - Birla Institute of Technology & Science, KK Birla Goa Campus
Location: Zuarinagar, Goa
Main topics: biosensors and bioanalytical chemistry, nanochemistry and nanomaterials, photochemistry and bioinorganic chemistry, computational and theoretical chemistry, green chemistry and catalysis molecular sensors and devices.
NanoBiosensor Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Jai Narain Vyas University
Location: Jodhpur, Rajastan
Main topics: development of Nano/Bio sensor surfaces for biomedical and environmental applications employing electrochemical and surface plasmon resonance techniques. Chemical resolution and biological screening of phytoresources of arid region.
Centre for advanced studies in Botany, Jai Narain Vyas University, New Campus
Location: Jodhpur, Rajasthan
Main topics: phytoremediation, in-vitro colture, molecular biology
Uttarakhand State Water Supply & Sewerage Organisation - Uttarakhand Jal Sansthan (UJS)
Location: Dehradun, Uttarakhand
Main topics: water supply, sewerage, sewage, disposal and treatment of trade effluents.
Centre of Interdisciplinary Studies
Location: Kolkata, West Bengala
Main topics: biology, agricultural sciences, anthropology.
Kolkata Trust for Human Development
Location: Kolkata, West Bengala
Main topics: community-based water treatment, technology transfer.
Environmental Resources Management (ERM)
Location: New Delhi, Delhi
Main topics: remediation, site characterisation.
Tesla Innovations Private Limited Company
Location: Mumbay, Maharashtra
Main topics: water treatment, wastewater.
Location: Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
Main topics: nitrifying bioreactors, aquaculture.
TECO project is co-funded by the European Union
