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Engaging India is an engagement & knowledge platform to catalyze co-thinking, co-solutioning & co-creation b/w India & Sweden on global issues & climate action.

Joined June 2024
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We are delighted to share that ‘Engaging India at Almedalen’ turned 5 at #AlmedalenWeek 2024. For the team, it is the energy , the insights and exchange of ideas and knowledge shared by the speakers that keeps us going year after year, and this is was even more special. (pt1)
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Coming up ! India Sweden Davis Cup 🎾 Right here in Stockholm at Royal Tennis Hall A special Indian Fan Zone being readied by Swedish Tennis Federation 5 previous 🇮🇳 🇸🇪 ties incl. 1987 Final & 2005, 2000, 1996, 1985 India 3 time runner up Sweden 7 time winners @AITA__Tennis
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Millennia old long distance trade networks! The fascinating finds in Sweden Indian coins 2,000 yrs old in Vallentuna Buddha statuette 1,400 yrs old in Helgö Indian Beads 1,000 yrs old in Birka Indian spices sourced for 1,000 yrs Used in Kanelbullar, Glögg, Risgrynsgröt 🇮🇳🤝🇸🇪
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Good to join State Secy Daniel Westlén @DWestlen during ‘Engaging India at Almedalen’ Welcomed @SAILsteel 🇮🇳 (Chm Amarendu Prakash) & CemVision 🇸🇪 (CEO Oscar Hållen) to LeadIT, India Sweden led global climate action coalition Now 40 countries & companies industrytransition.org
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‘Engaging India at Almedalen’ ‘Samband’ 🤝 for Climate State Secretary Daniel Westlen & Ambassador Tanmaya Lal welcome @SAILsteel 🇮🇳 & CemVision 🇸🇪 to LeadIT coalition Insights on impactful action by leading companies & startups and potential for collaboration Visby, Gotland
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What led us to launch #EngagingIndiaAtAlmedalen? Perhaps it was the essence of Almedalen Week itself, with 2,000+ seminars drawing stakeholders from industry, government, academia, policy, civl society, and the youth to the island of #Gotland. (pt1)
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It is the energy & collective knowledge generated in 3 sq. km. over 4 days, the multi-dimensional, international lens, & the magic that can happen when stakeholders from different parts of the world convene on a common platform that led us to create Engaging India at Almedalen.
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The seminar closed with a fantastic line-up of start-ups sharing how they are solutioning for #SDG2030. (pt. 6)
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Speakers from India and Sweden industry, academia, policy & civil society shared their learnings, from green transition for heavy industry to innovation for the last mile, from biologicals to biodegradable alternatives. (pt. 5)
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Keynote speakers Mayank Singhal of @PIIndustriesLtd and Meher Pudumjee of @Thermaxglobal shared their vision for a collaborative approach towards climate action, on keeping a balance between 'planet, people and profit' and the power of 'oneness'. (pt. 4)
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The big announcement on the addition of two new members to #LeadIT - Steel Authority of India Limited and CemVision - was made at #EngagingIndiaAtAlmedalen by Ambassador Lal and State Secretary to the Minister for Climate & Environment Daniel Westlén. (pt. 3)
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Building on the theme, ‘Samband for Climate,’ which means 'a connection/a relation' in Swedish and Hindi alike, H.E. Ambassador Tanmaya Lal and H.E. Ambassador Jan Thesleff spoke about the growing areas of collaboration between India and Sweden including LeadIT 2.0. (pt. 2)
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We warmly welcome Jakob Kiefer, Executive Board Member at Spowdi as speaker to the discussion on 'Innovation for Climate Action' at the 5th edition of #EngagingIndiaAtAlmedalen.
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He has been a career diplomat, including EU Foreign Affairs Council Sherpa, Deputy Chief of Mission in China, Ambassador to Chile and Peru and as Sweden’s Ambassador for Sustainable Business and also Senior Advisor to the CEO Climate Leaders Alliance of the World Economic Forum.
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He is an Executive Board Member of Spowdi, a green tech innovation company enabling small-hold farmers to grow more food with significantly less water, with the power of the sun.
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We warmly welcome Raine Isaksson as speaker to the panel discussion on 'Scaling Climate Action' at the 5th edition of #EngagingIndiaAtAlmedalen.
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Raine Isaksson is Associate Professor & Docent at Uppsala University. His research focuses on sustainable cement and concrete in Sweden and use of alternative binders as sustainable building blocks in Sub Saharan Africa.
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