Partnership to co-develop sector-relevant skilling courses
Airbus is working significantly to strengthen the Indian aviation sector by skilling 15,000 students through a collaboration with the Indian Railways’ Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya (GSV) Vadodara.
“As a company that is committed to developing the aerospace ecosystem in India, we realise our responsibility to invest in human capital development,” said Rémi Maillard, President and Managing Director, Airbus India and South Asia.
The industry-academic partnership will enable co-development and co-delivery of sector-relevant skilling courses and programs for regular students and working professionals, joint research and industry experiences for faculty, internships and placements for students and scholarship programs.
It will create job opportunities for students as per the industry requirements. It is expected that 15,000 students are likely to be placed in Airbus Indian operations, the Ministry of Railways said.
Speaking on the occasion, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said, “GSV will focus on intense industry-academia partnerships. All its courses will be designed in collaboration with industry.
“The students who study at GSV will be industry ready. They will be highly sought after for employment in transportation and logistics sectors. Today’s MoU with Airbus is a significant step in achieving this goal.”
The GSV Vadodara was established through an Act of Parliament in 2022, for creating best in class manpower and talent for the entire transportation and logistics sectors.
The GSV Central University is sponsored by the Ministry of Railways, and has Vaishnaw, also the Minister Communications, Electronics and IT, as its First Chancellor.
Focusing exclusively on transport and logistics sectors, GSV is a “first of its kind” university aiming to fulfil the mandate of the National Developmental Plans (PM Gati Shakti National Master Plan 2021 and National Logistics Policy 2022) across railways, shipping, ports, highways, roads, waterways, and aviation etc.
Following a demand-driven curriculum and leveraging state of the art infrastructure of all the Centralized Training Institutes of Indian Railways, the GSV shall create a resource pool of professionals across technology, economics, management and policy comprising multidisciplinary teaching (bachelors/masters/doctoral), executive training and research. GSV shall also undertake trainings for Indian Railways probationers and serving officers.
Being an industry-driven and innovation-led university, GSV already has several collaborations with leading institutions and industries across the world.
The MoU was signed at Rail Bhawan, New Delhi, by Maillard and Prof. Manoj Choudhary (Vice-Chancellor, Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya).
Airbus and Tata had recently announced a partnership to design, innovate, make, manufacture and develop in India C295 aircraft facility at Vadodara (Gujarat). Airbus is the world’s largest manufacturer of commercial aircraft and a leading producer of helicopters, defence and space equipment.
The company, which has a long-standing relationship of symbiotic growth with India, recognises Indian aviation sector as a key driver of global aviation as well as an indispensable talent and resource hub and is committed to maturing all the necessary building blocks to develop a fully integrated aerospace ecosystem in the country.
“Make in India is at the heart of Airbus’ business strategy in India and the company is steadily increasing India’s contribution to its global products,” said Airbus. Fiinews.com
