Skills enablement in India
Read about the various programs and initiatives (for example NEP) Elsevier runs to support skills enablement in India
Skills enablement
The focus of our skills enablement initiative is on capacity-building programs, such as the National Capacity Building Program in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and the National Education Program (NEP) workshops aimed at researchers and engineering professionals.
National Capacity Building Program
In 2024, we entered a strategic collaboration with Ministry of Education to introduce National Capacity Building Program, a comprehensive, encompassing and structured approach to enable and empower our stakeholders along the research ecosystem through skillset building
National Education Program (NEP)
When NEP 2020’s Equity and opens in new tab/window Inclusion initiative opens in new tab/window was introduced, we conducted more than 450 [to update] capacity-building workshops for over 300,000 researchers across India. Navigate and read more about each of the programs and initiatives below.
Engineering Forums
We designed a series of Engineering forums to equip engineering professionals with the necessary knowledge and skills to be successful in their workplace as well as aid educators in building essential skills such as critical thinking, problem-solving, collaboration teamwork and project management amongst engineering students.
Engineer in India
Better Together
During the COVID-19 pandemic, we responded to the urgent need in pivoting from a classroom environment to technology-assisted learning with our series of Better Together forums, which showcased how Elsevier’s portfolio of full-text journal articles and eBooks can be made accessible and available to India’s higher education institutions via online platforms for undisrupted and continuous learning.
Hot topics
We conducted targeted workshops to clarify common misconceptions and facilitate understanding on subjects such as open access, sustainable development and predatory publishing to help India’s academic community navigate emerging and complex topics associated with scholarly publishing.
Author and editor workshops
We organized author, reviewer and editor workshops on aspects of scholarly publishing to support the work and aspirations of our editorial partners and researchers in India.
Faculty Development Programs (FDPs)
We extended our expertise to support several Government of India’s Faculty Development Programs (FDPs) to ground researchers in the fundamentals of producing quality academic papers that are of global standard to accelerate their accessibility and visibility.
Promoting high librarianship
To promote high librarianship standards and improve the quality of library services, we introduced a comprehensive librarian development program for more than 1,000 library professionals across India in collaboration with library associations, with the objective of facilitating access to quality scholarly content for researchers at their institutions.
A librarian in India
Research Academy
Through Elsevier’s online self-learning platform – Researcher Academy opens in new tab/window – researchers can access complimentary courses developed by global experts on topics that are essential to help them progress along their career journey.
Awards
In 2009, Elsevier instituted the annual NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Awards program in recognition of India’s outstanding young research talent through a strategic collaboration with the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI). The awards help researchers building careers in academic research gain international exposure. To date, there have been more than 100 recipients of the NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Awards.