Category: Mobility Grant Blogs
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Fostering India-Switzerland Social Work Collaboration
By Saumya The K2A Mobility Grant provided me the opportunity to spend the month of June 2025 at the Haute école de travail social Genève (HES-SO), Switzerland. The visit was designed to strengthen collaboration between India and Switzerland in the field of social work, with a special focus on comparative curriculum studies, joint research, fieldwork…
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The making of inclusive and exclusive cities through the lens of social work
By Manish Jha As part of Cluster of Cooperation (CLOC) Knowledge to Action, I collaborated with Dr Sylvia Garcia Delhaye and other colleagues at Haute école de travail social (HETS) Genève. During my mobility, I delivered lectures on Urban Poverty, Migration and Community Development, and made a visit to a few civil society organisations. I…
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Growing Together: The Arts of Agri-Cultures and Elemental Community Exchanges
By Jamie Allen As a researcher working at the intersections of ecological thought, media art, and agriculture, I have long been inspired by the rich intellectual and practical engagements found in the Indian context. India’s vast agricultural resources and diverse crop production play a pivotal role in global food security. As the world’s largest producer…
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From the Himalayas to the Alps
By Jiban Mani Poudel As an assistant professor at the Central Department of Anthropology, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal, my teaching and research interests are in studying on human-nature relationship focusing on the human dimension of climate change, and mountain livelihood. The K2A mobility subsidy provided me an opportunity to collaborate with two universities in Switzerland,…
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From the Sundarbans Delta to the Alps: Advancing Transdisciplinary Collaboration for Transformative Change
By Md Faisal Imran On March 4, 2025, I arrived in Zurich, Switzerland, and subsequently traveled to Lausanne—a city renowned for its picturesque mountains, Lake Lausanne, expansive vineyards, and striking landscapes. During this academic mobility, I was affiliated with the University of Lausanne, working under the supervision of Professor René Véron at the Department of…
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Mobility from Pakistan to Switzerland
By Shazia Jabeen Dr. Shazia Jabeen, (Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, Women University Multan, Pakistan) was awarded the Knowledge2Action mobility subsidy 2023-24, funded by the Cluster of Cooperation (CLOC). She was hosted by Prof. Dr. Adrien Mestrot at Institute of Geography, Department of Soil Science, University of Bern, Switzerland. The mobility exchange was aimed…
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A Month in Lausanne: Notes from a Mobility
By Malith De Silva Arrival and First ImpressionsOn the 25th of February 2025, I landed in Zurich, Switzerland, from Colombo, Sri Lanka, for a month-long academic visit under the K2A Mobility Subsidy. I had long admired Swiss research culture fromafar, but nothing quite prepared me for the brisk alpine air, the near-perfect timing of the…
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A Social Bond: India to Sri Lanka
By Ajeet Kumar Pankaj The mobility program started with my arrival at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, on 19th February 2024. I visited the Department of Sociology and Social Work, University of Peradeniya, and interacted with Ms Ishari Gunavrathne, who is a Lecturer at the Department and was coordinating my mobility. Office and working…
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Bringing Knowledge to Action: My Experience at the NORRAG, Graduate InstituteGeneva, Switzerland
By Emon Nandi As an Assistant Professor at the Centre of Excellence in Teacher Education (CETE) at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, India, my teaching and research interests lie in Economics of Education, Education and Development, and Higher Education. This interest has helped me engage in the research project Innovative Financing for Education…
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Forging new bonds: An Indo-Swiss collaborative journey
Professor Meeta Keswani Mehra, Professor of Economics at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India received the Knowledge2Action South Asia mobility grant 2022-23, funded by the Cluster of Cooperation (CLOC) and Swissnex. Professor Mehra’s research interests are at the interface of environmental and climate economics, climate adaptation, extreme climate and welfare, heat and health…
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