Welcome to SHAKTI

The SHAKTI Project

In 2004 the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) started a research programme on “Research for the Sustainable Development of the Megacities of Tomorrow” (http://www.emerging-megacities.org/).

The task of the researchers funded by the BMBF within this programme is to work together with research institutions in the selected countries and regions and in close co-operation with local institutions responsible for urban development in order to devise solutions and strategies for a sustainable configuration of the mega-urban regions of the future. The generated ideas should be implemented in form of pilot studies. Relevant interest groups from politics, economics and society have to be included from the outset so that the research issues address real, local needs.

First targets for future development are already set in Hyderabad’s Master plan designed by the Hyderabad Urban Development Authority (HUDA) the and in the “City Development Strategy”. The overall goals of SHAKTI will therefore address the current and future needs of Hyderabad by simultaneously providing applicable solutions with associated strategies, action plans for implementation or business models integrated in a long-term sustainable development perspective.

All projects of this BMBF programme will be funded in four stages: the first stage (two years) being a preliminary phase in which the concepts described in the submitted project outlines are refined together with the partner country and prepared for implementation; after the successful evaluation three phases will follow (each of three years duration).

Information about the SHAKTI Project as download:

www.shakti.uni-karlsruhe.de or www.shakti-project.org