• Prof. Sanjay Bhale of MIT Pune Campus has recently presented a paper entitled “Entrepreneurship development at small scale: Key for sustainable economic development” at the conference in Nancy. His paper won the award amongst the best three Research Papers in the conference.
  • Asha Rajguru actively helped MAPI France at Lyon for professional translation of medical  questionnaires aimed at improving quality of Life of Patients.
  • Jessica Hackett, originally from USA and presently doing PhD program in Anthropology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes and Social Sciences at Marseilles, speaks fluent Marathi and is a strong supporter of MMF. Jessica completed a field research in the rural areas surrounding Pune. Last year, she went to Nasik & Kolhapur  for further field studies.
  • On 14th May, Chandrashekhar Rajguru participated a meeting organized by the Paris Townhall regarding the new orientations of “Ville de Paris” towards India.
  • Shashi Dharmadhikari published two articles, one on Chandbibi and another on the Marathi artist Pramod Kamble in “Nouvelles de l’Inde”, magazine of Embassy of India, Paris.