Bengaluru Sustainability Forum (BSF)

Objective The Bengaluru Sustainability Forum, BSF in short, is an inter-institutional collaborative initiative that aims to address issues relating to long-term sustainability of urban and peri-urban landscapes. Bengaluru Sustainability Forum focuses on  public goods and urban commons – including water, air and soil – amongst others. The main objective of the Bengaluru Sustainability Forum  is to convene and disseminate knowledge on various aspects of sustainability in the urban landscape, with a focus on Bengaluru. The Forum aims to achieve this by encouraging conversation and collaboration across a broad range of stakeholders. One of the approaches the Forum takes in facilitating exchange of knowledge is to host invitation based retreats on specific aspects of urban sustainability. These retreats are a platform to listen and learn about various perspectives and approaches from people of different educational and professional backgrounds on a defined topic in an informal setting.  BSF offers a small grants program, which is open to participants of the retreats and their collaborators. This program  provides seed funding for projects on urban sustainability in Bengaluru.