Intergovernmental Observer to the United Nations Economic and Social Council Under ECOSOC Resolution 2003/212 Dated 5th of March 2003.
Designated by the United Nations Economic & Social Council Under Rule 79 of the Council’s Rules and Procedures.
IN SUPPORT OF THE UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM FOR A BETTER WORLD AND THE UNITED NATIONS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS 2015 - 2030
The Strategic Partnership between IIMSAM and the Arab League of Member States/AASTMT shall be instrumental in playing a nodal role in establishing a long-term relationship between IIMSAM and Arab Academy for Science Technology & Maritime Transport as well as Countries of The Arab League. The partnership will implement effective International Public Relations to showcase this endeavor to the global audience appropriately. In this regards the Secretary-General wasted no time and appointed H.E. Ambassador Kunwar Vikrant Sandal as an IIMSAM Expert to the mission with Arab Academy for Science Technology & Maritime Transport in the field of Spirulina research, cultivation, technical and scientific issues. Amb. Sandal is a globally acknowledged Spirulina & Phycocyanin expert.
He is an Oxford University Alumni (Hertford 2008), where he read for Social Entrepreneurship, prior to which he attained an Honor’s degree in Engineering from Coventry University. Amb. Sandal has taken a life time objective of “Eradication of Malnutrition Globally & Achieve Food Security” and his entire working is aligned towards it. Along with IIMSAM, he has established a premier Phycology Research & Development Centre which is engaged in carrying out high-end R&D in the field of Phycology for producing various microalga including Spirulina in a most cost-effective way. Amb. Sandal is a mass Spirulina Cultivation Expert and produced 1000s of MTs of Quality Spirulina in his Spirulina Cultivation Facility which is one of the biggest in the world. He is the first person in the world to bring anti-cancer molecule PHYCOCYANIN from Spirulina to the mass production and developed low cost technologies for it to ensure its outreach among the masses.
During the period of 19th to 22nd of July 2018, LTCP UN-UNESCO in cooperation with IIMSAM organized summer ’18 camp with the theme Beat the Plastic Pollution. It took place at TU Berlin Campus - El Gouna, and created a unique atmosphere for innovation, teamwork and learning. The camp combines lectures, workshops, hands-on experiments, and social activities; to foster the participant’s learning experience. 2018-Theme: Beat the Plastic Pollution: The theme for this Summer Camp 2018 was to simply teach the youth about the three R’s of the environment “Reuse-Reduce-Recycle” and how to practically and effectively apply them. Following the fact that more than 30% of our waste is packaging material; then it is widely advisable not to get rid of this waste, instead; we could make full use of it in more smart and eco-friendly ways such as: Reusing our packaging things again instead of throwing them away, this could be done in simple and creative ways though. What’s more is: Recycling what is possible from the materials we use in our daily life. Recycled items are put through a process that makes it possible to create new products out of the materials from the old ones. Last but not least, we cannot ignore that: Reducing our daily amount of waste is the best way to help our environment.
Attended the camp: (Photo-left) Dr. Amaal Rezk - Special-Adviser-Envoy of the Secretary-General of IIMSAM who interacted with all the participants to let them know more about IIMSAM and it’s objectives. IIMSAM is one of the strategic partners as Dr. Amaal performed the orientation about the IIMSAM-Mandate, Protocols, and what is an IGO like IIMSAM to all participants and all delegates who were oblivious about IIMSAM. After the seminar they were all aware of IIMSAM’s profile as an observer IGO at UN HQ in New York and its most important Mandate against the number one killer in the world hunger/acute malnutrition.