Community

Bridging Classrooms, Building Futures The Highland Institute’s Schools Twinning Projects connect school communities across Northeast India with partner institutions around the world. Designed to foster intercultural exchange and local-global dialogue, these partnerships open up imaginative and critical spaces where students can explore shared concerns — from biodiversity and oral histories to storytelling and environmental resilience. […]

At the Highland Institute, we believe in science from the ground up. Our Citizen Science and Biodiversity Work initiatives empower communities—particularly in biodiversity-rich but ecologically vulnerable areas of Northeast India—to take an active role in monitoring, documenting, and conserving their local environments.These initiatives are rooted in the recognition that indigenous and rural communities have long

Grounded Futures in the Highlands As climate impacts intensify across Highland Asia, Indigenous communities—often the most exposed and least supported—are already drawing on generations of ecological knowledge to adapt, resist, and reimagine their futures. At the Highland Institute, our Indigenous Climate Resilience Programs are shaped by this understanding: that resilience is not simply technical or

Reimagining Heritage Through Community and Curatorial Dialogue Museums are powerful spaces of memory, knowledge, and representation—but they have also been central to colonial histories of extraction and misrepresentation. At the Highland Institute, we believe that museums must evolve into more ethical, inclusive, and dialogic institutions. Our Museum Collaborations programme supports precisely this transformation. Through partnerships with

Preserving Memory, Amplifying Voices The Highland Institute is committed to documenting and preserving histories that have long been marginalised, forgotten, or deliberately excluded from official narratives. Our Archival and Oral History Projects focus on recovering lived experience, local knowledge, and cultural memory—especially from Indigenous, rural, and highland communities. We believe that oral history and archival work