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GLOBAL COLLABORATIVE LEARNING

Competence Development in Product Lifecycle Management

Organisation: JSS academy of technical education
Website: www.jssaten.ac.in
Description: The Competency Development Centre established in the year 2003 complements the syllabus-driven engineering education by imparting additional engineering skills that lead to better employability and encourage students to do projects that increase their depth of thinking for better research-oriented careers
Objective: To build competencies in students and working professionals in the understanding and use of PLM tools that enhances their employability in the field of Designing and Manufacturing
Target Group: Students, working professionals and unemployed graduates
Achievements:
• 200+ students trained and sent in the industry to further their careers in Designing and Engineering
• Over 600 hours of step by step course material prepared and used for trainings

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International Exposure Program

Organisation: Dewan VS Group of Institutions
Website: www.dewaninstitutes.org
Description: DVSGI’s International Exposure Program is the way institution is attempting to empower its students to help them gain the international and intercultural knowledge with mutual respect .The program is to promote diversity of ideas, culture and skills across campus.
Objective: To promote critical thinking and also to manage change and create solutions to pressing problems ethically
Target Group: Students, Teachers, Administrator, Alumni and Community.
Achievements:
• Students started focusing on their responsibility to get involved in their community through Philanthropic activities
• Empowered the youth through technical and management education and providing professional leadership

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Cisco Networking Academy

Organisation: Cisco Systems India Private Limited
Website: www.cisco.com
Implementing Agency: Cisco Networking Academy
Objective: To develop ICT skills among students through the programme
Description: Cisco Networking Academy is a global education programme that teaches students how to design, build,  troubleshoot, and secure computer networks for increased access to career and economic opportunities in communities around the world. Networking Academy provides online courses, interactive tools, and hands-on learning activities to help individuals prepare for ICT and networking careers in virtually every type of industry.
Target Group: College-level students with or without prior technical knowledge, women, underserved sections and people with special needs

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Internationalisation of the Hindustan University

Organisation: Hindustan University
Website: www.hindustanuniv.ac.in
Objective: The goal is to turn Hindustan University into an international institution, where foreign students, teachers, and employers can deal with their counterparts and come to understand Indian beliefs, ideas, work approaches and practices, as well as social and cultural habits and lifestyles
Description: Hindustan University has established collaborations and associations with various universities across the globe for various courses in technology, management and at Doctoral level. These include in the fields of research, technology exchange programmes, faculty exchange programmes, and students exchange programmes at bachelor, master and doctoral levels. The collaborations are spread across academic and research based specialties.
Target Group: Faculty and students
Achievements:
• Connectivity with NASA by way of internship and competitions
• Created international internship opportunities
• Implementing over 20 international collaboration and having our programmes recognised as international level

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MULTIMEDIA CONTENT FOR K-12 EDUCATION

Digitally Simple
Organisation: Pearson Education Services
Implementing Agency: Pearson Education Services
Website: www.pearsoneducationservices. com
Objective: To convert the traditional classrooms into interactive classroom Description: DigitALly is the teaching tool that helps teachers manage an open repository of learning objects that are multimedia-enabled and syllabus-specific. The multmedia content helps in making the classroom learning more engaging – resulting in better understanding and retention of concepts. It also empowers teachers to customise their teaching sessions, keeping the learners’ pace in mind.
Target Group: Teachers and students
Achievements:
• DigiClass is based on Cognitive Learning and reiterates the relationship between the known and to be
learnt by associating new material with something familiar
• DigitALly is a Teacher Centric Application for classrooms and the emphasis is on teacher led learning
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Affordable Education
Organisation: LFX Technolgies Pvt Ltd
Website: www.learningmantraa.com
Objective: LearningMantraa is set to make a difference, effectively penetrating the education sector
Description: A K-12 e-content initiative provides K12 content (Science, EVS, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics), which is not only affordable but with retainer ship rights for clients. In 2010, LFX Technologies recognised this need for a cost effective yet quality digital content for schools, especially in rural areas of India.
Target Group: K-12 Segment in Rural Areas
Achievements
• Reached over half a million users in a time span of one year
• Reached out to remote rural areas for providing digital education in K-12 segment
• Provided K-12 content free of cost to NGOs working in the field of development of under privileged women and children
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The Knowledge Pool
Organisation: Harbinger Knowledge Products
Website: www.harbingerknowledge.com
Description: Raptivity is an interactivity building tool, which helps in creating learning content without any programming. It has a diverse set of 180+ customisable interactions (Multimedia based) across categories like games, simulations, brainteasers, interactive diagrams, virtual worlds and many more, which helps in adding a new dimension to learning
Objective: To offer a platform to build an interaction without any complex coding or programming
Target Group: Instructional Designers, Course Creators, e-learning and Training Professionals, Subject Matter Experts
Achievements: Received various awards such as United States Patent on March 29, 2011, Best Rapid eLearning Tool at Africa Learning & Development Leadership Awards 2012, and Learning and Technology Impact Award in the Games and Simulations Category
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Smart-class Content Development
Organisation: Educomp Solutions Ltd
Website: www.educomp.com
Objective: The Objective of the Educomp SmartClass content development project is to create a content repository for all subjects, and all classes from Kindergarten to 12th
Description: The Educomp SmartClass content development project is the creation of a repository of rich media educational content that is transforming the teaching processes across India. The Educomp Smartclass Content repository consists of digital materials to assist teachers inside the classroom.
Target Group: Teachers and students
Achievements:
• The content is now available in over 10,000 schools in the country, and reaches approximately 5.3 million students
• An independent study conducted by Dun & Bradstreet Information Services in February 2010, found that: Attentiveness was found to be higher when the digital content was played in the classroom
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Non Government Sector Initiative in Education

Skill Development Training Programme
Organisation: Centre for Entrepreneurship Development Madhya Pradesh (CEDMAP)
Website: www.cedmapindia.org
Objective: The prime objective of the project was to impart appropriate trainings to all un-skilled, semi-skilled
household assistants
Description: The District Urban Development Agency (DUDA), Ujjain and Directorate of Town Administration and Development, Government of Madhya Pradesh selected CEDMAP as its Implementing Agency (IA) for their prestigious Skill Development Training Programme in MP. Target Group: Un-skilled, semiskilled household assistants and workers
Achievements:
• CEDMAP’s success has greatly contributed to bringing in remarkable change in the socio-economic
conditions of their families
• Skoch Financial Inclusion Award 2013 along with the Certificate of Merit for Gender Empowerment under
Mukhyamantri Shehri Gharelu Kamkaji Mahila Yojana

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Imparting Quality Education

Organisation: Shri Ram Education Trust
Website: www.shriramedutrust.com
Objective: To impart quality education and to enable students to lead their lives in a more accomplished way.
Description: Shri Ram Education Trust has been founded with a vision to create, promote, support and manage educational institutes from pre-school to university level. The Trust also envisions contributing to the well being of children, the environment, communities and mankind through well planned activities. Target Group: Middle and lower class
Achievements:
• The trust has opened world class schools across India
• The trust is approaching its goal of the school expansion program in India and abroad

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A Global Educational Initiative
Organisation:
Indian Spinal Injuries Centre
Website: www.isiconline.org
Implementing Agency: International Spinal Cord Society
Objective: This project was aimed at developing a web-based teaching and educational resource

Description: The portal addresses the lack of professional development opportunities for health professionals involved in SCI management due to the limited access of current training and learning material.
Target Group: Health professionals working in the field of SCI, patients/ consumers and families, policy makers and government officials
Achievements:
• Involvement of professionals from around the world has resulted in offers of support to lead on translations into different languages
• The effort has led to the strengthening of discipline specific networks of professionals
• It is successfully helping in spreading awareness about SCI across the globe among the professionals and the patients/ consumers

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Women Empowerment through ICT

Organisation: Abbasi Charitable & Educational Society (ACES)
Website: www.acesabbasi.org
Objective: To enhance the skill levels of women students to prepare
them for employment in the IT, BPO and other industries
Description: ACES is setting up computer training centres in rural areas run by women. This centre will provide women with vocational and job-oriented courses like basic computer training and other courses.
Target Group: Women, adolescent girls and unemployment youth
Achievements:
• Privileged and less privileged poor and Dalit adolescent girls are endowed with employable skills
• Privileged and less privileged poor and Dalit adolescent girls are able to earn their livelihood and upgrade their socio-economic status
• These girls families would be able to acquire assets and livestock and that would lead to reduced poverty, hunger and dependency

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Isha Vidhya

Organisation: PIsha Education
Website: www.ishaeducation.org
Objective: Isha Vidhya aims to provide high quality school education to rural children who cannot otherwise afford it
Description: Isha Vidhya’s English-medium schools open the door for rural children to successfully pursue higher studies and gainful employment. The holistic, activity-based approach nurtures children’s development beyond just academics, ensuring that students realise their full potential and learn in a joyful manner.
Target Group: Economically backward rural children
Achievements:
• Noon-meal kitchen started in all seven schools in Tamil Nadu and nutritious meal at highly subsidised rate provided to all children in 2011
• A new school started at Vanavasi, Salem District in 2010
• Tribal children given full support besides tuition and notebooks

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Training Working Professionals
Organisation: Indian Institute of Financial Accounts & Information Technology
Website: www.iifaindia.weebly.com
Objective: IIFA helps Students attain outstanding Career in the field of Commerce, Finance, Accounts, and IT
Description: IIFA was established in 2009 with the primary objective of providing world class quality accounts & IT and management education to budding professionals,
to create Accountants for the 21st Century.
Target Group: People and handicapped students who are not able to pay the money
Achievements:
• Best Education Award from Uttar Pradesh Education Minister
• “Srestha Gurujan Award” from Jyoti Vidyapeeth University, Rajasthan
• Best Excellence Award from Bajaj Hindusthan Ltd, India

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Empowering Deaf Kids throughMobile Phones
Organisation: Sounds of Silence (SOS)
Website: www.soundsofsilence.in
Objective: The main objective is to break a social stereotype wherein deaf and mute children find it difficult to openly communicate with people due to lack proper training
Description: Sounds of Silence started with a simple idea of giving deaf and mute children old donated mobile Phones for communicating to the outer world. SOS is a leadership initiative which is aimed at freeing a million lives from the pain of silence and lack of expression.
Target Group: Deaf and mute children from the underprivileged sector- age group 12-18 years
Achievements:
• SOS, within a time frame of six months empowers 500+ deaf and mute children in Mumbai and Delhi alone through SMS communication technology target
• SOS has reached from a team of 5 volunteers to 90 volunteers in a span of just two months
• A stupendous Increase in IQ in Deaf/Mute kids within 3 months of time across India

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GLOBAL COLLABORATIVE LEARNING

Exploring the World
Organisation: Ryan International School, Greater Noida
Website: www.ryangreaternoida.com
Objective: The project brought about linguistic and cross cultural diversity for all the students enabling them to enhance their communication and visual skills
Description: The students of Ryan International School, Greater Noida effectively accomplished an international project in which the students were able to form global cross cultural bonds. They were also sensitised about multicultural and the intrapersonal aspects of communication.
Target Group: Students of Classes 1to 6
Achievements:
• Global interaction interspersed with cross cultural bonding
• Enhancement of analytical and creative skills globally
• Two way learning by stimulating the collaborative learners

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Study in Migration
Organisation: Bal Bharati Public School
Website: www.bbpsgr.edu.in
Implementing Agency: Goethe Institute, Max Mueller Bhavan
Objective: Students explored migration in personal, social and political contexts in their own as well as partner country
Description: German-Indian Classroom is a programme supporting collaboration between Indian and German schools. The
program constitutes project work carried out over a period of one year with two integrated exchange phases. Under its aegis, Bal
Bharati, Ganga Ram and Genoveva Gymnasium, Germany have been working collaboratively for a year on a joint curriculum
plan titled Who we are and where we are going – Self-Images and Migration in Delhi and Cologne.
Target Group: Students
Achievements:
• Collaborative experiences from the project promise to play a significant role in the development of students’ personalities
• Students from both schools got ample opportunities to learn and appreciate differences as well as similarities in the sociocultural
milieu of both countries

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Academia-industry interface

Pratibha Job Fair

Organisation: Kamala Education Society’s Pratibha Group of Institutes
Website: www.kes.org.in
Description: The project Pratibha Job Fair was initiated for a social cause to benefit the younger generation of India. It is observed that the huge quantum of unemployed or under employed youth in the age bracket of 16-24 needs a platform that will bridge the gap between employment opportunities with potential employers in various sectors and the challenges the youth faces in reaching them.
Objective: To bring together the potential employers and the job seeking candidates under one roof
Target Group: Fresh graduates, Post Graduates, ITI’s, Engineers, Diploma Holders
Achievements: 
• 100+ renowned employers participated with around 10000 openings
• The objective of making employers aware of the need to give opportunities to candidates from small towns/cities was  successfully fulfilled.

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Online Examination Management System

Organisation: Directorate of Information Technology, Govt of Maharashtra
Implementing Agency: School Education and Sports Department
Website: www.it.maharashtra.gov.in
Objective: The eScholarship Management System automates, streamlines and effectively manages the processes related to application receipt, processing, sanction and disbursal of Pre-Metric Scholarship to students Description: School Education  department was using a manual system for the implementation of scholarships, which was extremely time consuming and prone to errors and duplication. To overcome these shortcomings, it has been decided to launch an eScholarship management system (EMS) for scholarship application, review and disbursal.
Target Group: Minority students
Achievements :
• During 2012-2013, a total of 18 lakh students applied for the scholarship.
• It drastically cuts down the time taken for manual process

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Innovative Academic Programmes

Organisation: VelTech Dr RR & Dr SR Technical University
Website: www.veltechuniv.edu.in
Objective: To develop the ability among students to design, create, test and implement the industry technologies and thereby becoming industry – ready, when they pass out from the university
Description: The increasing frequent changes in technologies and the demand for industry ready engineers and the lack of interest among the students to pursue higher education paved the way for the introduction of innovative UG / PG programmes specially called as ndustry Linked Programmes. These programmes are offered in collaboration with premier institutes and Industries like ARAI, CDAC, GARC, TAFE, etc.
Target Group: Undergraduate engineering students passing out from universities, industries requiring skill upgradation for their employees are the direct beneficiaries
Achievements:
• More than 100 active MoUs and interactions with more than 2500 Industries in India and abroad
• The students are industry ready when they pass out and are readily absorbed in top OEMs and core industries

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Value Added Courses

Organisation: RMK Engineering College
Website: www.rmkec.ac.in
Objective: To Bridge the gap between Industry and the Institution and to increase the employability and conduct various softskills and technical training programmes
Description: The institution offers value added courses such as IBM – DB2, RAD, Tivoli, CISCO – CCNA, LABVIEW, Infosys Campus Connect, Ericsson EXCEL Certification, Improving Programming skills workshop by TCS, Mobility Challenge contest by TCS, Accenture – Nurturing Young Minds, Innovation Jockeys, Accenture Career Day, Cognizant – Evolve, Cognizant Certified Student
Target Group: Students
Achievements:
• Around 90 percent placement record, consistently for the past five years on an average 90 companies visited our campus for recruitment and more than 60 percent of eligible students placed in first 3 companies every year.
• More number of MoUs with leading software and core companies like TCS, Infosys, HCL, Wipro, IBM, etc

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Center of Excellence for Innovation in Design

Organisation: Takshshila Institute of Engineering and Technology
Website: www.takshshila.org
Implementing Agency: Dassault Systemes
Objective: The platform creates an environment to spark innovation in students, design professionals, university students, faculty, entrepreneurs and governments access to world-class resources
Description: The Center of Excellence (CoE) is aimed to be a collaborative platform for design innovation. This platform is a hub for collaboration on innovative, technology or design solutions, involving a combination of colleges, universities, government, quasi-government bodies, industry and industry body and partners
Target Group: Mechanical Engineering Students
Achievements:
• Getting the educational organisation except the things necessary changed to brought for engineering education irrespective the direction provided by the governing technical university

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Quality Engineering Education in Rural Haryana

Organisation: Delhi Institute of Technology & Management
Website: www.ditmcollege.com
Implementing Agency: SR educational & welfare trust
Objective: To provide a great educational resource and high quality engineering education in rural Haryana
Description: Engineering College is running a four year B Tech Programme in CSE, IT, ECE, ME and Civil Engineering
Target Group: 10 +2 students
Achievements:
• Excellent Results
• Best Edupreneurs Awards and Educational Awards

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Shadow Engineering

Organisation: VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology
Website: www.vnrvjiet.ac.in
Objective: Shadow engineering aiming at creating a series of interactions with the industry professional, thereby attracting projects to department / students, enhances the teaching skills with the knowledge of practical and real time
implementation in the industry
Description: VNR VJIET debut a programme called Shadow Engineering. This new programme allows prospective Engineering students to see industry from a professional perspective and allow them to spend a week time with a multidisciplinary area at the industry and experience the industry life. The Shadow Engineering programme is an opportunity for a budding engineer to learn what it means to be an engineer.
Target Group: Students and faculty
Achievements:
• Explore the real time environment
• Students physically experiencing the process and products
 

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Creating Employment Generators

Organisation: Jagan Institute of Management Studies
Website: www.jimsindia.org
Objective: To be an Institute of academic excellence with total commitment to quality education and research in management
and information technology with a holistic concern for better life, environment and society.
Description: JIMS provides an environment, which brings out the latent skill and competence of the students so that they could ultimately become entrepreneurs. The institute encourages students to be employment generators and not employment seekers.
Target Group: UG Students of all major discipline with inbuilt managerial and entrepreneurial capability
Achievements:
• Inculcated Managerial Capability
• Ensured Employability
• Promoted Entrepreneurship

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INNOVATION IN MATH EDUCATION

DPS East Mathematics Rolling Trophy
Organisation: Delhi Public School, East Ahmedabad
Website: www.dpseast.calorx.org
Implementing Agency: Calorx Education and Research Foundation
Objective: To bring awareness of the existence of the school and prepare the children for future competitions in Mathematics Description: With the support of our promoters Calorx Education and Research Foundation the school took a small step in January 2009 and hosted Inter school Mathematics competition coined DEMART(DPS East Mathematics Rolling Trophy) for students of          class1 to 12
Target Group: Children of Age group 6 to 18 years
Achievements:
• Approximately 5000 students participated
• Reached to five states in India
• Reached to three countries
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Application of Math in Life
Organisation: The Orchid School (TOS)
Website: www.theorchidschool.org
Objective: To build the confidence of the students in their Mathematics skills and add the fun element to the teaching-learning
process
Description: Math Fair at TOS was a culmination of the process that began with the planning, exploring, brainstorming and zeroing
down upon concepts. It culminated in the form of an exhibition-cum display with children participating in hands-on activities
Target Group: Orchid students, parents and students from other schools
Achievements:
• The Fair has helped in concept clarity and has developed interest in the subject. This was reflected in the scores. The evidence can
be seen in presentation
• Extrapolating simple mathematical concepts to high order thinking and creating a spark among children for whom Math was
always a challenge
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Innovation in Teaching pedagogy

Micro-Collaborations on SQA for Collaborative Learning

Organisation: RMIT University
Website: www.rmit.edu.vn
Objective: This project aims to use the micro-collaborations to return relevant answers, given a newly posed question
Description: Social question answering (SQA) services are dedicated platforms where users ask, answer, rate and comment content. Micro-collaborations in SQA services are referred to as brief, informal episodes of collaborative information seeking where users engage in asking, answering, ratings, and commenting. Piazza is an example of a SQA service that helps a community of learners to interact among themselves and with their instructors
Target Group: Graduate Students and teaching staff.
Achievements:
• Won RMIT Vietnam Research Grant for 8000USD
• Use of social media components in collaborative learning
• Identify the topic of interest based on students’ participation
• Increased students online participation that result in building collective intelligence

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Working Together as Health Professionals

Organisation: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (National University of Malaysia)
Website: www.ukm.my
Objective: The project aims at introducing the concepts of inter professional education and collaborative practice among students from various healthcare programmes
Description: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recognised inter professional education (IPE) as necessary
to produce collaborative-ready healthcare professionals. In February 2011, a twocredit co-curriculum module to introduce the concepts of IPE was developed at UKM and offered to all first year undergraduate students from faculties of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy and health sciences.
Target Group: First year students from different health disciplines
Achievements:
• University accepted Innovative projects.
• Improvement of collaboration among staff from different faculties.
• Improvement of inter professional collaboration among students
• Involvement of multidisciplinary healthcare services

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Education Portal

Organisation: Dr A Kumar Institute of Education
Website: www.akie.org.in
Objective: To undertake the task of shaping impressionable young mind with moral values and leadership qualities. To enable them to attain a very high level of academic excellence and to achieve this objective, provide best infrastructure, Opportunity and environment.
Description: Dr A Kumar Institute of Education (AKIE) has made its remarkable presence in the global arena. AKIE is one of the autonomous institutes in Bihar with ISO 9001:2008; ISO 2700:2005. In a small town in Bhagalpur, AKIE initiated online education through education portal. It helped students living below poverty line in great manner
Target Group: Graduate to PG Students
Achievements:
• 600 students since 18 months.
• eBook mainly for the weaker section of society
• Video lecture
• Interest in education enhance
• First portal in Bhagalpur

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Tailor-Made Business Simulation Software

Organisation: Amity University, Gurgaon
Website: www.amity.edu/gurgaon
Objective: To develop a scalable solution to cater to the growing student base, institutes, professors and the whole industry, by leveraging technology and without compromising on the quality of education
Description: This new pedagogy is highly engaging thereby enhancing the retention and clarity of knowledge of the student as they experience real life like business scenarios virtually. Amity University, Gurgaon is revolutionising the management education with global best practices of giving students hands on real life.
Target Group: Management students at both undergraduate and postgraduate level
Achievements:
• Participants live the experience with a more analytical way of thinking
• Technology allows participants to develop a long-term
• The approach reinforces competitive thinking and market understanding

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GREEN SCHOOL INITIATIVES

Green Earth Venture
Organisation: Greatmen International School
Website: www.greatmensagar.com
Description: Greatmen International School has been trying to create awareness among the people of Sagar to save the environment by planting more and more trees at every possible inch of the land. The Ozone club of the school took the initiative in 2010 when nearly 1100 saplings were planted. In 2011, a press conference was addressed by the scholars and role plays and skits were staged as well as poster competition was organised on the theme ‘Know Me Know Life’ that is ‘No Me No Life’
Objective: The main objective of Ozone Club is to create pollution free nature, to sensitise the parents and scholars about various environmental hazards.
Achievements:
• Distribution of 11,100 saplings by the school which will be continued
in the coming years
• Distribution of saplings and plantation in every year since 2010 in
and around Sagar district
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Green School
Organisation: B-Kanae School
Website: www.b-kanae.edu.in
Objective: There is no blueprint for being a green school. The hallmark of this movement is its diversity
Description: Green School is an amazing initiative, pioneering sustainability within education. It is pushing boundaries in schooling at a time when the world must review whether more of the same is acceptable. It is preparing students to be critical and creative thinkers who are confident to champion the sustainability of the world and its environment.
Target Group: K-12 Students
Achievements:
• Student result enhanced
• Teacher’s efficiency enhanced
• Operational cost reduced
• Students fitness level enhanced
• Student’s absent ratio reduced
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Towards Green
Organisation: Guru Teg Bahadur Public School, Bardwal
Website: www.gtbps-bardwaldhuri.com
Objective: To be a school where learning is enjoyable, exciting and challenging
Description: The school is situated on Dhuri-Malerkotla Road, in the sylvan beauty of 100 acres and pollution free, congenial  environment amidst bush green surroundings. It is a picturesque and ideal site for an educational institution
Target Group: School
Achievements:
• The Global Award for Perfection, Quality & Ideal Performance 2010 from Otherways Management & Consulting Association Paris-France held at Berlin
• The Golden Award for Quality & Business Prestige 2011 from Otherways Management & Consulting Association Paris-France held at Berlin.

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Safeguarding Resources

Organisation: Delhi Public School, Sonepat
Website: www.dps.in
Objective: To reduce the consumption of energy and resources as much as possible and minimise waste production and achieve more sustainable waste management practices
Description: Delhi Public School, Sonepat has taken some more green school initiative by providing new methods like solar panel, the school switch off electricity every day for two hours to conserve energy. There are eight water harvesting plants in the school campus including swimming pool. Sewage treatment plant is available where the school recycles the water for other uses.
Achievements:
• Organic farming provides us with pesticides free vegetation
• Chemical free manure
• Minimised waste production

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Green School Programme

Organisation: St Kabir’s School, Hisar
Website: www.saintkabir.com
Objective: To remind each one of us that we are integral part of environment and its our moral duty to work for environmental conservation.
Description: St Kabir’s school initiated the Green school initiative in the year 2006 by constituting Kabir’s Eco Club with the aim of environmental awareness. In last couple of years, it has gained momentum by expanding its boundaries to its communities
Target Group: Villagers and house wives
Achievements:
• Active participation of maximum teachers, students and parents in Green School Programme and awareness is unremittingly expanding
• The innovative model ‘Kabir’s Aqua Eco-Floating City’ participated at District, State and National levels and got appreciations from eminent scientists including Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, the former President of India. The model was blueprint for future living on Earth by overcoming global warming and climate change

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Green School Project

Organisation: Dasmesh Parivar International School
Website: www.dpis.ac.in
Objective: Green School Project is to make the students aware about environment
Description: Under Green School Project, the students are motivated every year through lectures, slides, competitions, models,  science exhibitions, celebrating Van-Maha-Ustav, etc in the school. In 2012-13 sessions, the students grew plant celebrating Van-Maha-Ustav in school. The school motivates the students to grow plants in their homes/ localities. Target Group: School students Achievements:
• Students are becoming members of Eco-Club and becoming aware about the environment
• Plantation of trees by students and zest of students to take care of them

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Save Earth
Organisation: Gyan Ganga International School, Jabalpur
Website: www.gyanganga.ac.in
Objective: Save Earth, Save Mankind programme aims to save environment and sustain the resource for longer time
Description: Save Earth, Save Mankind programme was initially started in the school with the foundation of Eco Club in 2001. The purpose of founding Eco Club in the school was to raise awareness about what it identifies as root cause of contemporary social and environmental crises.
Target Group: Young generation
Achievements:
• Sewage water treatment plant has been successfully installed
• Green Angles has made school environment green and fresh
by their continuous efforts by planting trees every year and
taking care of them

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Innovation in Open and Distance Learning

LPU e-Connect

Organisation: Lovely Professional University
Website: www.lpu.in
Objective: To act as an Information Hub for the students by providing them personalized learning environment so that they can learn as per their convenience along with their other commitments
Description: LPU e-Connect, an exceptional and user friendly online platform of Lovely Professional University Distance Education (LPUDE), offers ‘anytime, anywhere’ strong and secure online connection that links its various users viz University
Target Group: Students of distance education, study centres, management and staff members of the university
Achievements:
• With LPU e-Connect, the University is able to save lots of papers in University and Study Centres to make University and its Study Centres paperless and truly Online
• Online Sharing of Data, Records, Information, Updates and Important Documents for fast and better communication

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Empowering Youth

Organisation: Amity University Online
Website: www.amityonline.com
Objective: To reach the nook and corner of various geography of world using higher ICT involvement in academic delivery of MBA programme
Description: Amity University Online (AUO) and the programmes offered currently, along with its some important outstanding features in terms of triple e-Advantages as easy; economical; and enhanced Learning. The institution is a virtual university campus, which facilitates fast track admissions, interactive multimedia rich e-contents, live virtual fully interactive classes from expert faculty from academia and industry and convenient online assessment and examinations.
Achievements:
• Proud participant in the prestigious GOI’ pan African e-network project
• Secured highest accreditation from European foundation for management development, technology enhanced education, Switzerland
• Also honoured with the IIND Indian e-retail award 2012 under the best e-educational services.

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Distance Education

Organisation: Shree Balaji Institute of Professional Studies
Website: www.sbipsnagpur.com
Objective: To motivate students and get enrollment for a course with a specific objective
Description: Distance Education provides access to higher education to a large segment of society. The need for distance education can be attributed to the information explosion, to an increasing population, and to its cost effectiveness. The conventional system of education has not been able to cope with the increasing demand for education.
Achievements: Won Rashtriya Vidya Samman Puraskar, Rashtriya Shiksha Samman Purskar, International Status Award for Education Excellence, Indo-Nepal Ratan Award, Nepal

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Virtual labs Universalising Education

Organisation: Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
Website: www.amrita.vlab.co.in
Implementing Agency: Amrita University, IIT Delhi, IIT Kharaghpur, IIT Mumbai, IIT Chennai, IIT Guwahati, Dayalbagh University, COE, Pune
Objective: To provide remote-access to labs in various disciplines of Science and Engineering
Description: The Virtual Labs project addresses these issues of lack of good lab facilities, as well as trained teachers, by making remote experimentation possible. Also, in a country such as ours, costly instruments and equipment need to be
shared with fellow researchers to the extent possible.
Target Group: Higher Education Engineering and Science Students
Achievements:
• Largest venture in the world to build Virtual Laboratories.
• Broad multiple disciplines of sciences and engineering have been covered as part of this initiative

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Initiative by start up

Coursehub

Organisation: Aurus Network Infotech Pvt Ltd, Government of Gujarat

Website: www.aurusnet.com
Objective: Accessibility of quality education to masses at affordable price
Description: CourseHub, the flagship product from Aurus Network, is a state-of-the-art solution for lecture capturing and delivering distance education. It makes it possible to easily capture the lecture videos and deliver them in HD- uality to students.
 Target Group: Educational and Training Institutes
Achievements:
• Successful deployment of CourseHub at IIT Kanpur
• Winner of Microsoft’s Bizspark India Startup challenge – 2012 in Cloud Application Category
• Used by institutes like Career Launcher, Career Point, Academy of Commerce, etc. as easy-to-use, cost-effective and low-maintenance alternative to costly and involved VSAT solutions
• Funded by Indian Angel Networks (IAN) – a testimonial to the huge opportunity present before the company

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Touch-on-cloud
Organisation:
Harness Handitouch Private Limited
Website: www.harnesstouch.com
Objective: To make teaching and learning more engaging, efficient and fun
Description: Touch-on-Cloud is a learning operating system, which disrupts the idea behind traditional
learning management systems (LMS) and enables the comprehensive use of interactive technology inside
classroom as well as outside using the Cloud.
Target Group: K-12, Higher Education, universities and coaching institutes
Achievements:
• Successfully piloted in leading institutions all over India
• Implementation in progress for many clients
• Awarded as India’s best education start up by Accel Partners and Intel
• Awarded among top two early stage start ups across sectors by Sequoia, Citrix and Amazon

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Callerobics: The Finger Gym
Organisation:
Kriyative Learning Solution International private limited
Website: www.kriyativeedu.com
Implementing Agency: jeyappria dhevi
Objective: To establish Callerobics in at least 100 schools across India by 2014-15, thereby to improve at least 25000 students across India
Description: Callerobics is a hand development concept, which makes writing a fun filled activity. As the name suggests, the program is a combination of calligraphy (the art of penmanship) and aerobics. Callerobics focuses on improving writing skills using finger and hand exercises with writing practice in scientifically proven way. Target Group: Our target group is school students
Achievements:
• A handwriting programme like Callerobics is launched first time in India
• Callerobics is being used by more than 3000 children this year
• Many parents appreciated the improvement in control and flexibility of hands in their children.

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Next Generation Identity Systems
Organisation: JNTU Hyderabad
Implementing Agency: JNTUH College of Engineering
Website: www.jntuhcej.ac.in
Objective: To use biometric access control as a means of combating truancy and ensuring learner’s safety, convenience and security
Description: The Next Generation Biometric technology improves the recognition accuracy, achieves scalability to accommodate hundreds of millions of users, ensures interoperability, and protects user privacy while reducing system cost and enhancing system integrity.
Target Group: Students, administrators, staff, parents, government officers, bus drivers, etc
Achievements:
• Accepted as the best technology around the globe, which identifies the academic fraud that exists in academic universities or colleges or schools
• Project framework published in ACM Proceedings 2012

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Search EngineOptimisation ofRoperty Matrix
Organisation: Hi-Tech Institute of Technology
Website: www.hit.ac.in
Implementing Agency: Webgen Infosystems
Objective: The main objective of this project was to generate more traffic to the website, brand promotion, search engine marketing and get ranked in Top five in google.com
Target Group: Business Men/ industrialists, who look to invest in properties
Achievements:
• Website ranked number two in Google Page Rank
• Ranked fifth in Google on keyword Property in Bhubaneswar in one month
• Ranked first in Google on keyword Premium land in Bhubaneswar in two months
• Received five times more visitors in just three months
• Client generated 300 percent more revenue (still counting) in the current quarter

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A Vision of World Class Education
Organisation:
Confluence World School
Website: www.confluence.edu.in
Implementing Agency: GSIC Education
Objective: To provide the best of education to one and all with a belief that education is the basic right of every citizen, irrespective of where they are born
Description: The school has tied up with research based partners like The Shri Ram Schools, Jodo Gyan and ThinkLabs for an edge in terms of curriculum design, pedagogy and delivery. It believes in imparting education through constructive interactions and hands on experiences.
Target Group: Students of the age group of 2.5 to 17 years
Achievements:
• The school’s social connect initiatives
• Collaboration/partnership with research organisations.
• Professional Development Program-me.

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Transformation of ExistingEducational Groups
Organisation: Econs Profit Solutions
Website: www.econsprofitsolutions.com
Description: Overall transformation of any project along with systems and strategies is the forte of the organisation and it has successfully carried it out in a group of colleges and Schools with very good results.
Objective: To Transform the working and up lift the ranking of college/school
Target Group: School, group of Institutions
Achievements:
• Brand upliftment
• Improving Quality
• Raising Placements
• Increasing Admissions
• International Presence

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Recruitment Assistance
Organisation: Substance
Website: www.substanceindia.com
Objective: The organisation intends to be a leading resource of information, insight on education and credentials.
Description: Substance is working with institutions and employers to identify top global talent and make better hiring choices. Within this framework and by measuring and adjusting their recruitment efforts Substance assists and helps institutions to achieve higher enrollment yields.
Target Group: Universities, Education institutions
Achievements:
• Many academic institutions and employers / corporates rely on the substance for trusted and accurate intelligence
• Successfully conducted events along with the renowned people from corporate industry addressing the students of various institutions.
• The organisation is associated with large institutions and more than 50 Large and SME employers

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Synergize
Organisation: Esquvi Technologies Pvt Ltd
Website: www.esquvi.com
Objective: Synergize helps optimising training and placement process and enhances T&P efficiency by creating corporate
outreach
Description: Esquvi Technologies is in the process of creating a software platform Synergize that will enable the professional
education institutions streamline their day-to-day operations. It brings in operational efficiencies for all the key stakeholders of
any professional educational ecosystem.
Target Group: Professional educational institutions
Achievements:
• Enabled seamless connectivity between all stakeholders of an institution
• Optimised training and placement (T&P) process
• Enhanced T&P efficiency
• Created corporate outreach
• Created social momentum for grants and charity

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