Established 2010 Acronym ACCER Phone 0487 237 2413 | Special Officer Dr. E.K. Kurien Website accerkau.com Founded 2010 | |
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Type Education and research institution Location Vellanikara, Thrissur, Kerala, India Address Vellanikkara, Thrissur, Kerala 680656 | ||
The Academy of Climate Change Education and Research (ACCER) is an institution established by Kerala Agricultural University in 2010 to study about climate change under the faculty of agriculture. The campus is situated at Vellanikara, Thrissur, Kerala, India, and has a five-year course on M.Sc. (Integrated) Climate Change Adaptation.
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When the course was inaugurated on 6 September 2010, the first batch had their initial classes at College of Fisheries (CoF) Panangad, Ernakulam. After CoF was delinked from the KAU to Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies in 2010, the students were temporarily transferred to a building located at KAU's main campus in Vellanikara, alongside the NH-47, with GSLHV Prasad Rao as the first special officer. The students remained there till 2015, almost a five-year gap, during which the college grew to its full potential of five batches.The new college building was inaugurated by Oommen Chandy, then Chief Minister of Kerala on 28 September, 2015