The Global Water and Climate Adaptation Centre – Aachen, Bangkok, Chennai, Dresden addresses the pressing issue of humanity's adaptation to the consequences of climate change with a special focus on water. As a joint effort between leading scientific institutions, it enables a global dialogue, the transfer of research results into practice and the education of future environmental leaders.

AquaMAP Centre for Water Management and Policy at IIT Madras aims to create awareness and implement sustainable solutions to impact water management practices on a national scale.

Centre of Excellence sponsored, this research group is focused on working in the field of architected materials and sustainable materials.

The program's motto 'Ideate, Innovate, Incubate' essentially summarise IIT Madras's continuous efforts to enable an ecosystem where students/early stage start-ups from across the country ideate and innovate for the greater good of society and incubate start-ups to become job creators.

The aim of the proposed centre is to contribute to the development of new techniques and tools for mathematical modelling and analysis of complex dynamical systems and to investigate some of the challenging dynamical problems in climate science, neuroscience, biological systems, multiphysics systems and active flows.

There is a pressing need for transition of global energy system from exhaustible to renewable energy sources. This has induced a surge in the manufacture of renewable energy production and storage devices/equipments like batteries, solar panels, wind turbines etc. However, this leads to another concern – mounting of infrastructure wastes. The Centre for Resource Efficiency, Recyclability and Circularity in Energy Transition, funded by HSBC, tries to bring in eminent researchers, leading industries and global universities to work towards transformational, fundamental research and technology transfer to achieve global net zero goals.

The Centre of Excellence for Zero Emission Trucking is at the forefront of India's transition to sustainable transportation. Its primary objective is to expedite the introduction of Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEVs) in the above 12T (running more than 60,000 kms annually) trucking segment in India.

Established in 2000, the Centre for Nondestructive Evaluation (CNDE) at IIT Madras is designed to be a world leader in the field of non-invasive industrial inspection and diagnostics.

Materials form the basis for most of the technology advancements in every sphere of life. The focus of the Centre is to understand the scientific origin of the properties down to the atomic scale through the advanced microscopy and modelling tools.

CTaP aims to provide hitherto unavailable analyses and strategy options to the national policy-making bodies, by leveraging IITM's cutting edge research activities in the areas of Energy, healthcare, waste management and educational technologies.

CUBE extends its services under four verticals, namely, Building and Construction, Environment and Sustainability, Smart Cities and Urban Planning and Transportation.

The race to space, with a vision to inhabit and exploit the extra-terrestrial (ET) spaces is the key focus among the scientific community in this century. The hurdles likely to be faced are high cost of transporting resources from the Earth and limited availability of resources at ET.

The race to space, with a vision to inhabit and exploit the extra-terrestrial (ET) spaces is the key focus among the scientific community in this century. The hurdles likely to be faced are high cost of transporting resources from the Earth and limited availability of resources at ET.

Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre (HTIC), a multi-disciplinary R&D centre, is a joint initiative of Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) and Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India that brings together technologists, engineers, doctors and healthcare professionals, industry and government to develop healthcare technologies for the country.