Competition · Register by 30 July

Frame the Future: Youth on Climate Resilient Kerala

Filmography & Policy Analysis Competition · Part of Project KERST

Research · Collaboration · Resilient Future

How can Kerala build a more climate-resilient future?

A binational centre integrating legal knowledge, policy, and interdisciplinary research on sustainability and climate change, strengthening the long-standing Dutch–Kerala relationship.

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A binational centre for legal & interdisciplinary research

Two institutions, one shared question on climate and sustainability.

The Indo-Dutch Research Centre brings together Government Law College, Ernakulam and the Van Vollenhoven Institute at Leiden University, separated by continents but united by a shared question: how do we build communities that can survive, and thrive, in a changing climate?

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Who we are, our mission, and our three research pillars.

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Project KERST

Is Kerala ready for a climate resilient future? That is the question at the heart of Project KERST. Kerala faces real climate risk, from floods to landslides to a threatened coastline. It also has frameworks, plans, and civic energy. KERST asks whether these are connecting, through three lines of inquiry: what legal and policy frameworks say, what communities on the ground experience, and what Kerala and the Netherlands can learn from and contribute to each other.

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