The MoUs were formalized at a ceremony held at SECL Headquarters, in the presence of Mr. Biranchi Das, Director (HR), SECL.

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The MoU outlines a strategic partnership focusing on upskilling students and professionals, preparing them for the evolving demands of the industry. The association will leverage Nemetschek’s novel software solutions and ICT Academy’s expertise in technology education to create a comprehensive learning ecosystem.

Nirmalya Chatterjee, Country VP, Nemetschek Group – Indian Subcontinent of Nemetschek India, stated, “This MoU marks a significant step in our commitment to bridging the gap between education and industry needs. By integrating our innovative software solutions into ICT Academy’s curriculum, we aim to equip the next generation with the necessary skills to excel in the digital economy. This collaboration will nurture innovation and drive progress in the AEC industry, aligning with our vision of a digitally transformed future.”

Deepankar Bhattacharyya, General Manager – Education, Nemetschek India, “We are excited to sign a strategic MOU with ICT Academy to upskill and reskill students of their member colleges for emerging job roles in the AEC industry. This partnership will provide outreach and scale of NEM brand software solutions to 25,000+ engineering students across the country over the next year.”

Echoing similar thoughts, Mr. Srikanth Venkatraman, CEO, ICT Academy, commented, “We are delighted to partner with Nemetschek India to bring state-of-the-art technology to our training programs. This alliance will provide our students with unparalleled access to industry-leading software, enhancing their learning experience and employability. By combining our educational expertise with Nemetschek’s technological prowess, we are confident in our ability to create a robust pipeline of skilled professionals ready to meet the industry’s challenges.

The association will include the development of joint workshops, seminars, and certification initiatives designed to provide hands-on experience with Nemetschek’s software tools. These efforts aim to enhance the technical proficiency and industry readiness of participants, ensuring they are well-prepared to meet the demands of the rapidly evolving AEC industry while supporting ICT Academy’s mission to encourage creativity and entrepreneurship among its students.

Nemetschek Group’s Q2 2024 and H1 2024 Results:

In addition to this strategic partnership, Nemetschek Group has reported robust financial results for Q2 2024 and the first half of 2024. The Group experienced an 82.9% growth in subscription and SaaS to EUR 124.6 million in Q2, with ARR growth of 26.5% reaching EUR 797.9 million. Group revenues increased by 9.7% to EUR 227.7 million in Q2, and the EBITDA margin stood at 27.0%, adjusting to 29.4% when accounting for acquisition-related one-off costs. Quarterly earnings per share grew by 27.7% to EUR 0.36. This strong performance reflects the continued successful transition to a subscription and SaaS-based business model, alongside strategic acquisitions like GoCanvas, which are expected to generate significant synergies and growth opportunities, particularly in the Build segment. The Group has expanded its outlook for 2024, with anticipated growth driven by internationalization efforts and the integration of new technologies.

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Bengaluru, July 26, 2024 – The K.C. Mahindra Education Trust proudly announces the re-defined intervention from Project Nanhi Kali with an innovative campaign that integrates football into the curriculum for underprivileged schoolgirls across India. This campaign, created by Ogilvy, underscores the Trust’s commitment to holistic education, blending academic learning with essential life skills acquired through sports.

KC Mahindra Education Trust started Project Nanhi Kali to encourage and support underprivileged girls to complete 10 years of schooling. In alignment with the National Education Policy which advocates integration of sports as part of the curriculum Project Nanhi Kali is introducing the girls to the game of football.

Project Nanhi Kali’s campaign film captures the transformative power of football on young girls, highlighting real-life stories of schoolgirls from across India who are part of this program. These girls are not just learning to play football; they are gaining confidence, leadership skills, and a sense of self-worth that transcends the football field. The film is a testament to how sports can be a powerful vehicle for change, teaching values such as teamwork, perseverance, and resilience.

Project Nanhi Kali has transformed the lives of more than 700,000 girls across India.

Watch the film here: https://youtu.be/R5icw4Pvuao

Commenting on the new film, Sheetal Mehta, Trustee and Executive Director, K.C. Mahindra Education Trust says, “At Project Nanhi Kali, we empower underprivileged girls through a transformative blend of education including 21st-century skills and sports leadership training. This holistic approach provides the girls with the essential tools to succeed in life. Our ‘Lessons from a Football’ film vividly showcases how football teaches crucial values like teamwork, leadership, and perseverance. By incorporating sports into our program, we see Nanhi Kalis evolving into strong, confident leaders who are ready to take on the world.”

Asha Kharga, Chief Customer and Brand Officer, Mahindra Group also added, “Nanhi Kali represents Mahindra’s philosophy of Rise in action. We approached the new campaign with the mindset of an innovation launch. In alignment with the National Education Policy, Nanhi Kali has revamped its curriculum to be more holistic by integrating sports, while maintaining a focus on English, Math, Digital & Financial Literacy, and Soft Skills.“

“We needed to effectively communicate this shift and a day with the Nanhi Kalis in the village of Jambusar gave us rich insights. For these girls, football is more than a sport, it instills in them the confidence to Rise.” 

Ogilvy India conceptualised this thought-provoking film. Kainaz Karmakar and Harshad Rajadhyaksha, Chief Creative Officers of Ogilvy India opined: “We visited a rural Nanhi Kali centre and spent a lot of quality time interacting with several Nanhi Kalis, and their coaches. The raw, captivating, and liberating stories of what the simple game of football has come to mean for these little girls and their sense of confidence and self-worth, is what inspired us to create this piece of communication.

“It is a privilege and honour for all of us at Ogilvy to partner with the super-driven Nanhi Kali client team in this journey. We are also very pleased with what our director, Afshan, has been able to bring to life in this film, working with so many amazing actual Nanhi Kalis who had never ever faced a movie camera in their lives, before this film.”

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A study by Newcastle University and Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, published in the Journal of Vision, has found that people use a combination of colour and brightness in a painting to predict the time of day in the image. For a large range of paintings over three centuries, they were able to establish the timing regardless of the exact content or style of painting and this was purely based on the selection of shades used.

Visual perception

In an online behavioural experiment, 51 people rated 104 mostly little-known landscape paintings as depicting either morning, noon, afternoon, evening, or night. Although the paintings were taken from a range of artists and from across the 17th to 20th century, the time of day ratings people gave them were surprisingly consistent. In general, paintings with lighter, paler blues and darker yellows were viewed as morning, and those with darker blues and brighter yellows seen as evening.

Anya Hurlbert, Professor of Visual Neuroscience at Newcastle University, who led the study, said: “Our findings show painters tap into fundamental processes of visual perception that adults possess. “They appear to be subconsciously understanding how the human brain has learned over evolution to interpret changes in daylight and this adds to our understanding of visual perception. “This research is one of the first to show that painters deploy simple colour and brightness cues to convey something as abstract as time of day.”

From nature to art

The colour and brightness of natural daylight change regularly over the course of the day and offer subtle colour clues that this research showed most people interpreted in the same way. Experts have shown that daylight is a mixture of direct sunlight and diffuse skylight, meaning the nuances in hue are constrained to follow a curve from blue to orange/yellow.

At dawn, the light changes colour rapidly from a dark blue to a brighter yellow or neutral hue; at dusk, it changes in the opposite direction, becoming bluer as it darkens.  In morning and evening, when the sun is close to the horizon, daylight is dimmer than at midday. People were able to pick up on these subtle clues.

Professor Hurlbert said: “The experiment was performed online. A separate experiment in the lab, with a calibrated image display and a smaller number of participants, confirmed the results of the online one. “Therefore, paintings make a rich source of information for scientists to understand how visual perception works.”

Reference: Time-of-day perception in paintings. Cehao Yu et al. Journal of Vision

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Bengaluru, 6th December 2023: Scaler School of Technology, a fully residential undergraduate program in Computer Science by Scaler, today announced the launch of the “Indian Silicon Valley Challenge”, a nationwide competition designed to identify and nurture India’s brightest young minds. The challenge is open to students in Grades XI and XII who are passionate about technology and problem-solving. The competition will be hosted by the founders of Scaler alongside industry CXOs from the startup space who will also serve as the jury.

The challenge is centred on recognising students with the ability to adeptly leverage technology to tackle real-world issues in areas like education, healthcare, agriculture, environment, and community development. Participants will be judged on their problem-solving skills, creativity, and the potential impact of their proposed solutions.

This opportunity offers students a chance to connect with the minds behind some of India’s successful tech companies and gain insights from their experiences. By presenting their ideas directly to industry leaders, participants have the opportunity to showcase their innovative solutions and potentially access resources and support that can assist them in bringing their ideas to fruition

“We believe that India has a wealth of untapped talent in the field of technology,” said Bhavik Rathod, Head of Scaler School of Technology. “The Indian Silicon Valley Challenge is our gateway towards empowering young innovators and providing them with a platform to showcase their ideas and solutions to the world. We are looking for students who are not only passionate about tech but also have a deep understanding of the social and environmental challenges facing India. We want to find students who can use technology to create a positive impact on the lives of others,” said Rathod.

The winner of the Indian Silicon Valley Challenge will be awarded a trip to Silicon Valley, California. During the visit, they will have the opportunity to explore the campuses of Apple and Google, gaining insights from some of the world’s most accomplished tech entrepreneurs and innovators. The school represented by the winner will also be recognised as a leading institution in the field of innovation and technology. Moreover, the top three winning schools will be presented with trophies and receive personalised letters signed by prominent entrepreneurs as a gesture of acknowledgement.

In addition to this, all participants will receive access to a CS & Machine Learning Essentials course for beginners, delivered by ex-Google instructors from Scaler, along with a range of other awards and recognition opportunities.

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By augmenting and modifying different facets of academic needs and education, artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to have a considerable impact on the teaching and research professions. AI technologies have the potential to alter the way that educators teach and researchers conduct their research, from individualized learning experiences to enhanced data analysis.

Here are some key points of AI and AI-enabled digital platforms in the teaching and research profession: Personalized Learning: AI may modify lesson plans and learning scenarios to meet the needs of certain students. AI systems can discover students’ talents, limitations, and learning preferences through the analysis of enormous volumes of data, enabling teachers to modify their lesson plans accordingly. This customized strategy can increase student engagement, boost academic results, and close the achievement gap. Intelligent Tutoring: AI-driven tutoring programs can give pupils quick feedback and direction, imitating a one-on-one tutoring relationship. These systems can evaluate how well pupils are doing, spot misconceptions, and provide specific interventions to assist students overcome obstacles. Intelligent tutoring technologies can complement both in-person and online learning environments, enhancing teachers’ efforts and offering extra assistance. Automated Grading and Feedback: It can take a lot of time for teachers to grade a lot of work and give thorough feedback. Using algorithms to evaluate objective criteria like multiple-choice questions or code quality, AI can automate the grading process.

This increases the effectiveness of the assessment process overall by enabling teachers to devote more time to individualized instruction and qualitative comments on subjective assignments. Data Analysis and Predictive Analytics: In order to spot trends and patterns that people might miss, AI can evaluate enormous amounts of educational data, including student performance, attendance records, and engagement patterns. AI can forecast student performance, and dropout rates, or identify students who might require extra attention by using predictive analytics. Using a data-driven approach, educators can intervene early and modify their teaching methods as necessary. Enhanced Research Capabilities: AI can help researchers in a variety of ways. Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithms can assist in literature reviews by sifting through large volumes of academic literature, and extracting pertinent data. Complex datasets may be processed and analyzed using AI-powered data analysis tools, which can also spot correlations and patterns that can be used to inform research hypotheses. Data modeling, simulations, and forecasts can be aided by machine learning algorithms, which can speed up research and lead to novel insights. Virtual Assistants and Chatbots: Students and researchers can get immediate assistance from chatbots and virtual assistants powered by AI, which can answer basic inquiries, direct them to resources, or walk them through different steps.

By handling mundane activities, these AI assistants free up educators’ and researchers’ time to concentrate on more complicated tasks and interactions. Ethical Considerations: It is critical to address ethical issues as AI is used increasingly frequently in research and teaching by facilitating the fairness, openness, confidentiality and bias reduction in various research activity. Intelligent Research Assistants: AI-powered assistants can help researchers by automating tedious chores like literature reviews, data collecting, and analysis. These helpers can quickly sort through voluminous research publications, retrieve pertinent data, and discover gaps in the body of knowledge.

Researchers can concentrate on higher-level thinking and advance their work more effectively by automating time-consuming procedures.

AI offers many advantages in the education and research fields, so it’s crucial to strike a balance between technology and human competence. By providing educators and researchers with strong tools and insights to deliver high-quality education and advance knowledge in their domains, AI should complement and enhance their roles. Nothing can replace Passionate and dedicated academicians but being a teacher we have to update ourselves with the latest digital platform tool to enhance our teaching and research skills. AI is the technology that fastens research activity efficiently and fulfills the gap between research and industry. Through proper use of AI, teachers can promote critical thinking which leads the generation of new ideas and concepts.

An updated teacher with AI and AI-enabled tools that can’t be replaced.

Dr Sonia Pandey, Professor at Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences Rama University

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