SAE Dubai signs MoU with SXILL and Chandigarh Design School

SAE Dubai signs MoU with SXILL and Chandigarh Design School

Worldskills Industrial Design Expert Prof. Vineet Raj Kapoor on behalf of Chandigarh Design School and Indiaskills GDT Jury Expert Neelu Kapoor on behalf of SXILL signed an Memorandum of Unde

rstanding with SAE Dubai (a reputed University at Dubai) recently at SAE’s Dubai Campus World leading Design Institute SAE’s Dubai Campus has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with Chandigarh Design School and SXILL.

While taking the Founders on a Tour of their beautiful campus located at Dubai Knowledge Park (near Palm Jumeirah) at Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Mr. Jan Horn remarked that with this initiative SAE is happy to step forward in the field of Design Thinking and UX UI design with the expertise of Chandigarh Design School and SXILL in the field of Design to deliver courses at their Dubai and Abu Dhabi campuses.

Under the arrangement SXILL and Chandigarh Design School shall be delivering classes for students enrolled by SAE, Dubai, in the highly specialized field of Design Thinking. This would be a great step for India’s Design Community into International Education. Erstwhile, Indian Design community engaged foreign professors, or foreign degree tieups to send their students abroad or exchange students. It is rare for foreigners to look to India to study (except for 3rd world countries). With this step SXILL steps into the International education sector on a strong footing.

Vineet Raj is currently highly involved in the Design and Innovation space as India’s nominated Expert for Worldskills competition and nominated Lead Expert by Worldskills International, amongst other duties. Speaking on the occasion he shared, “It is my dream to see Indian Innovation take a central place in the scheme of things across the world. need to build a complete ecosystem of innovation, and see that these innovation see the light of the day based on their viability. More companies need to come forward and adopt these kids into their ecosystem and nurture them. I am sure, it would be a win-win situation for both. We are helping out our local industry improve their designs and have been contacted by many original equipment manufacturers for this. We are open to helping out our competitors and peers implement this methodology at their Universities and Institutions. Our students have worked at the Top in leading organizations including Ericson, Sony, Yatra.com, Gaana.com as well as Directed top animated shows like ‘Motu Patlu’ and even independent artists like Sukh-E the singer amongst others. Our alumnus own leading IT companies in the region like Intelligaia, Trabug, Creative Peppers etc.”

Prof. Vineet Raj Kapoor, SXILL was also invited by FICCI in 2022 to represent the Indian Angle to Dubai Expo for the Round Table on “Fostering Skilling ecosystem by exchange of Knowledge, service & resources” Media & Entertainment Skills Council, (MESC), one the pioneer council for skill training for M&E domain, hosted the Industry-Academia round table discussion in association with FICCI in Dubai. He also was the Invited as the International Key Speaker at World Design Organization backed event at Moscow, Russia on World Design Day on 29 June 2022 and Serious Play Conference at Toronto in Oct 2023. He also featured as a prescreening jury for Smart India Hackathon 2022 (India), Eurasian Future Skills Competition (Russia), and Khabarovsk International Competition (Khabarovsk), BRICS Future Skills Challenge (China) amongst others

Neelu Kapoor, the Founder of SXILL and herself a National Jury (Graphic Design) for NSDC backed Indiaskills said, “SXILL offer a unique ‘Design your own Curriculum’ option in line with the National Education Policy as well as a World Class Animation and Design Finishing School SXILUP for Animation and Design passouts from Colleges. In this endeavor SXILL is backed by top studios like Lakshya Digital, Digitoonz, Greengold (Chhota Bheem), Technicolor, and more. Our students consistently win International Awards like 11secondclub and GO48!”