On February 28, 2019, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham was invited to participate in a Cross Cultural Educational Symposium with Colorado State University at Taj Gateway Hotel in Kochi.
As part of the Live-in-Labs® program, Engineering students from Coimbatore campus visited the Dewgain village in Namkum tehsil, Ranchi, Jharkhand. Even though about 90% of the population of Dewgain village are dependent on agriculture, severe water scarcity during the summer months had caused the agricultural yield in the village to go down in recent years.
The Amrita Center for International Program’s flagship initiative, Live-in-Labs®, has welcomed international students from over 20 countries around the world.
As part of a mass effort to bring clean drinking water to over 5,000 villages via Amrita’s Jivamritam initiative, 71 college students from 20 universities in Japan spent 10 days living and working in the Alappuzha district of Kerala.
Over 100 students and 16 faculty members from the Coimbatore, Bengaluru, and Amritapuri campuses of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham visited 13 villages across 11 states in North India last month.
Amrita’s unique experiential learning program, called Live-in-Labs®, is becoming one of the most sought-after fieldwork-based programs for international students.
The villagers of Mothakara, Kerala have benefited from an Amrita Live-in-Labs® project to design, develop and implement solar thermal powered lemongrass essential-oil distilleries, sustainably reviving a generations-old source of income.
Amrita Live-in-Labs® was showcased as an initiative to achieve learning outcomes effectively at the 4th World Summit on Accreditation (WOSA) 2018, organized by Government of India’s National Board of Accreditation (NBA) at New Delhi, from September 8- 9, 2018.
A team of Professors from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham visited Ryerson University, Canada, on July 10, 2018. They met with Dr. Ali Miri, Graduate Program Director and Nadia Bello, Experiential Learning Strategist at the Ryerson campus.
Dr. Balakrishnan Shankar, Associate Dean, Amrita School of Engineering, Amritapuri campus and Mr. Manoj P, Amrita School of Business, Bengaluru campus, visited Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) D-Lab. During the visit, Amrita faculty members met Dr. Bob Nanes, Executive director and instructor of D-Lab at MIT.
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