Entrepreneur Education Partnership 2023
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan launched Education to Entrepreneurship, his ministry's 3-year partnership with META to provide digital and marketing skills to students, teachers and entrepreneurs in New Delhi. Under this partnership, five lakh entrepreneurs will be trained in digital marketing skills by META over the next three years. Minister of State for Education Mati Annapurna Devi and Minister of State for Electronics & Information Technology and Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Rajeev Chandrasekhar were also present on the occasion.
META has signed three Letters of Intent (LOI) between the National Institute of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development (NIESBUD), All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), and the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) as part of this initiative. These collaborations aim to create a vast talent pool and seamlessly connect students, young individuals and micro entrepreneurs across the country.
Benefits of partnership:-
- This initiative is to take forward Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision of making India the skill capital of the world and empowering our next generation. The 'Education to
- Entrepreneurship' partnership is a game-changer that will take digital skilling to the grassroots level.
- This will build the capacity of the talent pool and seamlessly connect students, youth, workforce and micro entrepreneurs to future technologies.
- At the core of this collaboration is democratizing digital skills, taking them to every corner of the country.
- Using Meta's popular platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, the partnership will provide training in digital marketing skills in seven regional languages.
Meta's ongoing commitment
- This partnership builds on META's ongoing efforts to foster digital talent in India.
- Meta launches 'Creators of Metaverse' program in collaboration with AICTE. The initiative aims to enable 100,000 students and 20,000 teachers in augmented reality, virtual reality and artificial intelligence.
- Additionally, a two-year diploma course in animation is set to be launched in AICTE affiliated colleges, which will further strengthen META's commitment to foster innovation and technical expertise among the youth of India.
- Under the partnership with NIESBUD, five lakh entrepreneurs will get access to digital marketing skills by Meta over the next three years.