Sustainable Sainji

The Sustainable Sainji Programme is led by Anglia Ruskin University’s Global Sustainability Institute (GSI). Like all International Community Experience (ICE) programmes, students, staff and ARU alumni are eligible to participate in this project.

Applications for the 2025 programme are now open and will close at 5pm on 15 November 2024.

For more information about Sustainable Sainji and how you can get involved please visit the GSI web pages.

For application forms please see below.

Key information

Trip dates

These are likely to be 12 April - 26 April 2025.

We may need to leave a day earlier or arrive a day later depending on flights.

Briefing meetings

Three meetings, dates to be confirmed.

You must attend all these to be part of the trip.

Notes

You will also need to budget for any immunisations which are not free on the NHS (costs vary), and for a visa (around £20).
You will be expected to attend three team meetings before we leave, to discuss what we will be doing in Sainji.
Your passport must be valid for six months after the return date of the trip.

How to apply

If you would like to apply to be involved in Sustainable Sainji 2025 please complete all of the forms below.

You will also need to read our terms and conditions.

Read more about what we've done to help

Sustainable Sainji Project Report 2024

Sustainable Sainji project report 2019

Sustainable Sainji project report 2018

Sustainable Sainji project report 2017

Sustainable Sainji project report 2016

Sustainable Sainji in the news

Team VC Awards for Excellent Education Collaborative Activities 2023-24

Award citation:

The Sustainable Sainji programme is a powerful example of how universities can be a force for good. Sustainable Sainji is about benefitting communities, both at ARU and in India. This project is unique in that through collaboration with community leaders, it matches volunteers' discipline-specific skills and knowledge with the community's development priorities. It also directly addresses several of the Global Sustainable Development Goals and demonstrates clearly ARU's values of courage, ambition and innovation.

This is not a one-off event, but a programme now in its sixth year, which has evolved and grown. At its core, the programme has inclusivity at its heart, ensuring at all students can apply - regardless of income.

In 2017, the Sustainable Sainji project was a finalist in the Green Gown Awards.

We were also a best practice case study (see page 10) in the publication Educating for Sustainability, published by the ISCN for the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos.