The Indian affiliate to IULTCS - Indian Leather Technologists Association (ILTA) and CSIR-Central Leather Research Institute jointly organized the XXXIV IULTCS Congress during 5-8 February 2017. UNIDO presented during the Congress three topics:

(i) Kanpur Leather Development Project (KLDP)

(ii) Analysis of flow, energy and carbon footprint aspects of Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) technology

(iii) e-Learning and Blended Training in the Leather Professional Education (UNIDO experience)

UNIDO had aslo a booth to show and demonstrate various eLearning courses with a possibility to enrol into courses.

It was also an opportunity to start with the first module and session of the blended training course in Kanpur. On 10th February 2017, Dr. A. Lama (University of Northampton) visited Kapur and gave lecture to students.