UNESCO Chairholder Dr. Bhavani Rao was a speaker at the Ernst Strüngmann Forum: “How Collaboration Arises and Why It Fails” held in Frankfurt am Main, Germany May 8–13, 2022
Integrating diverse perspectives, the Forum worked to develop a comprehensive framework to support future work. Andreas Roepstorff and Paul Verschure, Chairpersons of Ernst Strüngmann Forum were also present at the event. This collaboration aimed to strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnerships between Amrita and other institutions for the greater good of sustainable development.

Goals of the Forum
-To explore the commonalities and differences in collaboration as observed in biological, social, and technological systems,
-To identify core drivers of and constraints on collaboration and the conditions for its emergence, stabilization, and fractionation,
-To outline putative generic architectures for processes of collaboration, and
-To model how commons may be created, consumed, and destroyed during collaboration.

The Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society (ESI) is an independent research institute in Germany. Realizing gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls will make a crucial contribution to progress across all the SDGs and targets.