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Did you know that India is the third largest FinTech market worldwide?

Published September 25, 2020 by Fanny Von Heland in New Delhi

India is one of the fastest growing fintech markets globally. Although nascent, estimates show that India is already the third largest center for fintech. [1] It is at the same time a market with huge, untapped potential. Nearly 1.5 billion payment...

10 years old Indian kids to learn coding at school – Reflections from India’s new National Education Policy

Published September 11, 2020 by Fanny Von Heland in New Delhi

Even though much has changed in India, school kids learn from the same books that were used for teaching 10 years ago. The Indian education system promotes rote learning, and this promotes conformism rather than curiosity in children. Clearly,...

What have vector-borne diseases to do with Covid-19 and urban planning?

Published August 28, 2020 by Fanny Von Heland in Coronavirus

For this week’s blog post we conducted an interview with the Swedish researcher Dr Johanna Lindahl. Johanna is an Assistant Professor in veterinary epidemiology at both Uppsala University, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and...

The power of a billion | India’s Genome Project and Future of Precision medicine

Published June 16, 2020 by Fanny Von Heland in New Delhi

What if you were prescribed treatment based on your genetic makeup, environment and lifestyle? This is already a reality and the practice is called precision medicine or personalized medicine. Essentially, this means your genes determine the...

Giving wings to talent – how IIT Bombay is supporting made-in-India Covid-19 solutions

Published May 29, 2020 by Fanny Von Heland in Coronavirus

The outbreak of Covid-19 has affected every sector in society and the way of battling the virus varies between governments, industries and academia. What everyone seems to agree upon is the need to support R&D initiatives - nationally and...

Post Covid-19 – A time for green transition in India?

Published May 15, 2020 by Fanny Von Heland in New Delhi

“When the time comes to kickstart the global economy again in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, it will be crucial to incorporate thinking about the green transition as an engine of recovery,” the Nordic environment ministers announced...

How India is using a triple helix approach to fight Covid-19

Published April 29, 2020 by Fanny Von Heland in Coronavirus

When we look back on the current COVID-19 crisis in India, there's no doubt that we'll see that the crisis has resulted in several innovations, and perhaps even more importantly in new effective ways of working across sectorial boundaries. For a...

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