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Enlightened edupreneur including scientific editors, graphic
designers, and lecturers, provide
engaging digital content to university
students and working professionals
in the Global South to enable them to
acquire the latest applicable knowl-
edge drawn from German universi-
ties and industry. It’s important to
note that DADB is not an engineer-
ing education platform like Coursera
and EdX. We own and produce our
own content and provide short-
duration — two/three-week summer
and winter programs for university
students, and year-round programs
for professional engineers to learn
and apply latest technologies from
German industry. The purpose is to
make university students job and
start-ups ready and provide profes-
sional engineers cutting edge knowl-
Schröder (centre) in EW Bangalore office: cutting-edge German technology offer edge advantage,” says Schröder.
Future plans. With German com-
n the provision of education ser- Fraunhofer, Siemens, Rohde and panies including Mercedes-Benz,
vices and attracting students from Schwarz, Nokia, Intel, and Qual- BMW, Volkswagen, Bosch, Thyssen-
Iabroad, the Federal Republic of comm. Krupp, and Airbus, among others,
Germany (pop. 85 million) — Eu- Moreover, several top-ranked having established excellent reputa-
rope’s wealthiest and most techno- universities in India have partnered tions in India, Schröder is bullish
logically advanced country — is an with DADB for student and faculty about DADB’s prospects in this
also-ran despite higher education programs. They include BITS-Pilani, country. “We have already received
being provided almost free of charge IIIT-Kottayam, Lovely Professional a warm welcome from the academy
to all, including foreign students. University, Bennett University, and and industry. I believe our engineer-
This is a situation that Dr. Ing R.V. College, Bengaluru. ing upskilling programs can give a
(Engineering) CARSTEN SCHRÖDER, History. An industrial engineering huge productivity push to India’s
co-founder and Managing Director of graduate of the Technical Univer- youth and industry,” says this highly-
the German Academy of Digital Edu- sity of Berlin, research scholar at qualified and accomplished educa-
cation (DADB, estb. 2018), wants to the Fraunhofer Research Society, tor-entrepreneur with a sharing and
change. “We intend to bring cutting- Berlin for six years and Managing caring mindset.
edge world-class technology knowl- Director of the National Academy of Dilip Thakore (Bengaluru)
edge from Germany to engineering Engineering, Munich for a decade
students and corporates in India and (2001-2011), in 2015, Schröder went Happiness evangelist
countries of the Global South, which solo and established S2M, a Berlin-
includes South Asia and Africa,” says based technology transfer “science to
Schröder. market” company. Three years later OGESH KOCHHAR, an arts
Newspeg. Last month (June), Dr. in 2018, he also promoted DADB to and business management
Schröder embarked on a tour of “transfer globally-admired engineer- Ypostgrad of Punjab Univer-
India, visiting DADB’s potential and ing knowledge in higher education sity and the American Graduate
existing partners. DADB’s online up- from Germany to the world, and University (Miami), and HARVANSH
skilling programs cover a wide range particularly to India and the emerg- CHAWLA, an alum of Delhi Univer-
of new-age engineering technologies ing countries of Asia and Africa.” sity and a Supreme Court lawyer of
such as 5G, advanced communica- Direct talk. “DADB is the first com- 25 years standing, are co-founders of
tion networks, electro-mobility, pany to share Germany’s globally the YOL (YourOneLife) Foundation,
Industry 4.0 / Internet of Things, respected engineering expertise. Dharamshala (YOLF, estb.2019).
renewable energy and bio-mass From our studios in Berlin, a team Following five years of deep research
technology. Corporate clients include of 50 highly skilled professionals, the foundation has developed a

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