Since 2022, FIN has been collaborating with Engineers without Borders (EWB) to explore and promote innovative solutions to problems linked to the WaSH sector (water, sanitation and hygiene). Every year, FIN offers challenges from the Kameswaram village context to EWB, to be proposed to hundreds of students in Ireland. In…
On Friday, November 18 – a day before the actual World Toilet Day on November 19 – FIN hosted an online event in collaboration with the United Nations University UNU-MERIT, where I am Professor. It is always nice to wear two hats – one as FIN director and…
My name is Saimi Hartikainen and I am a first-year student at United World College Maastricht, which is an international boarding school in the Netherlands. I come from Finland, and I am very excited to be here to broaden my horizons and understand new perspectives. I grew up in an…
I(Prof. Shyama V. Ramani) have been in Kameswaram village in Nagapattinam district for one week. I am here to do research on data governance. Kameswaram is a village with only those households classified as marginalized (in past or present) by the Indian Government. Yet, there is enormous income inequality. There…
In many parts of the world women are making progress in all walks of life. This is definitely something to celebrate! That said, there are a million and one obstacles that must still be moved while being bombarded subtly or not so subtly by messages that lead us women to…
We are happy to have hosted 8 IMTG students in FIN as part of their SSR program. This is a program created in IMTG to give students an understanding of how their less privileged countrymen and countrywomen cope with daily challenges. As usual, the internship program evolved along the way…