I-cosm

IndSearch Centre of Sustainability Management (i-cosm)

IndSearch Centre of Sustainability Management (i-cosm) was established on 02 October, 2009 (Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday) as a natural progression of the efforts of IndSearch to spearhead socially relevant management education and research.

The acronym, i-cosm, indicates that the Centre’s focus will be in the interface between “I”, the individual, and the “Cosm”, representing the Universe.

In short the Centre has been mandated to study issues related to “man” and his “surroundings”, including economic surroundings, social surroundings and environmental surroundings.

The Centre has come into being at an appropriate time as there is an urgent need to build human resource capacity that specializes in Sustainability Management.

Sustainability has become an imperative to conduct business, especially in this flat and crowded world. More and more business leaders recognize that they have to maximize stakeholder value rather than shareholder value alone. Functional managers are expected to understand this new reality to avoid risks to the organizations. Business Schools, like IndSearch, play an important role in helping business to address this new paradigm and move forward with a sound strategy.

Vision & Mission

Vision of i-cosm:

To be globally recognized as a leading research, educational and training institution on Sustainability Management.

Mission of i-cosm:

To develop business managers with a passion for social and environmental responsibilities without losing the focus on economic responsibility through research, education and training.

Areas in which i-cosm is working or intends to work

1. Environmental Management Systems
2. Environmental Policies & Law
3. Environmental Impact Assessment & Environmental Audit
4. Climate Change & Carbon economy
5. Industrial Pollution & Industrial Ecology
6. Water Management
7. Air & Atmosphere
8. Natural Resources Management
9. Land Management
10.Waste Management
11.Design for Environment (Eco-Design)
12. Clean & Green Manufacturing
13. Energy Management
14. Green Marketing
15. Green Supply-chain
16. Biodiversity
17. Green Buildings
18. Green Politics and NGOs
19. Sustainable Development
20. Environmental Economics
21. Environmental Accounting
22. Business Excellence
23. International Trade & Environment
24. Economic Instruments for Environment
25. Poverty & Population
26. Bottom of the Pyramid
27. Emerging Markets
28. Green Investments
29. Sustainability Reporting (GRI)
30. Sustainability Ratings & Indices
31. Corporate Philanthropy
32. Social entrepreneurship
33. ILO Guidelines on labour
34. Occupational Health & Safety
35. Corporate Governance & Ethics
36. Supplier Sustainability
37. Partnership with Stakeholders
28. NGOs and Corporations
39. OHS & SA Management Systems/ industry codes
40. Gender Equity / Women empowerment & Inclusiveness

I-cosm believes in Partnerships with Associates from Academic Institutions NGOs Government Business Professionals and Industry Associations in its efforts towards

Post-Graduate Masters and Diploma Courses Student/Faculty Research Sponsored Research Management Development Programs Industrial Training Programs

Seminars, Workshops and Colloquia Industrial/Business Consultancy Reports and publications

In short, we have embarked on a journey towards building a world class institution that will help the country to build the necessary human resources capacity to take Indian / international business towards Sustainability – in economic, environmental and social dimensions of business

Training Programmes

Indsearch Centre of Sustainability Management offers both in-house and off-campus competence building training programmes for all sections of employees of business enterprises on various subjects related to Sustainability Management:

1. ISO-14001 Environmental Management Systems
2. OHSAS – 18001 Occupational Health and Safety Management systems
3. SA-8000 – Social Accountability
4. Environmental Management System Auditing (ISO-19011)
5. Environmental Accounting and Reporting
6. Global Reporting Initiative – GRI-G3 Sustainability Reporting
7. Introduction to Environmental Management in enterprises
8. Chemicals and Chemicals Handling
9. Handling of wastes and hazardous wastes
10. Energy Efficiency Improvement
11. Climate Change and CDM/Carbon credits
12. Design for the environment (Eco-Design)
13. Environmental Marketing
14. Corporate Social Responsibility
15. Environmental & Safety Legal/regulatory requirements
16. Supplier Sustainability Audits (e.g. EICC)
17. Business Sustainability

Upcoming Programme: Eighth Public Awareness Lecture Series (PALS)

 PALS Invitation

Highlights of 8th Annual Public Awareness Lecture Series
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