We are glad to write to you about Bosch India’s initiative on Industry-Academia Collaboration with selected Universities. This is an invitation for you and your team to explore a collaboration opportunity with Bosch on certain well-defined areas of skill development, which I am sure you will find to be interesting. Background India is at a threshold where skilling is the only way it can utilize its youth (demographic dividend) entering the workforce. Vocational training can help reduce employability gap on one hand, while creating a pool of skilled manpower for the industry on the other.
The country aims to create a resource pool of 500 million skilled workers by 2022. Furthermore, the emphasis of New Education Policy 2020 on vocational skills calls for greater engagement between industry and academia to achieve improved outcomes on employability. Bosch’s experience Bosch has created new benchmarks in impacting the youth through skills-based Trade Apprenticeship training (based on the German Dual VET model) since 1961 at the iconic Bosch Vocational Center (BVC) in Bengaluru. BVC, which has produced over 5,000 apprentices so far, has been bestowed with the President of India’s ‘Best Establishment Award’ 54 times. Continuing this tradition of imparting vocational training, Bosch launched its flagship short-term, job-oriented program “BRIDGE” in 2013, through which over 30,000 less-educated youth have been trained and placed across India through 466 BRIDGE Centers. BRIDGE addresses the need for establishing one’s self-identity and self-confidence by placing them in an entry-level job in the organised or semi-organised sector. In 2015, Bosch also launched state-of-the-art “Artisan Training Centers” to create a pool of highly skilled artisans in the country, besides continuing to Train the Trainers (TTT) in technical and soft skills impartation. Collaboration with Universities As a new dimension to strengthen our ongoing efforts on skilling and with a vision to maximise our impact, Bosch launched the Industry-Academia Collaboration for Skill Development (IACSD) initiative in 2019.12/3/2020 Suresh Gyan Vihar University Mail - Bosch India’s initiative on Industry-Academia Collaboration - An invitation to collaborate in Skilli… https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ik=453df800d3&view=pt&search=all&permthid=thread-f%3A1683420126758064400&simpl=msg-f%3A1683420… 2/4
The objective of IACSD is to work with like-minded universities in the following areas: 1. Skill Development of Youth 2. Trainers Capacity Building 3. Developing Industry-ready Social Service Professionals 4. Capacity Building of Non-profit Sector (NGOs) 5. MSME Capacity Building Please refer enclosed booklet giving a glimpse of the options open for discussion with you. IACSD does not include the scope of R&D, Funding, or Placements in Bosch. However, our eminent partner universities have already found this partnership a strategic value addition. Should you be interested in knowing more on the benefits of IACSD and the ways to collaborate, we would be happy to discuss further.
