About ICT Academy

ICT Academy is a initiative by Government of India, State Governments and Industry. A not for
profit autonomous organization focusing to improve the quality of Faculty and the Students to
make them industry ready and immediately employable in the industry. ICT ACADEMY is
governed by an autonomous Board of Governors from Government of India, leading
companies. ICT Academy is a pioneering the venture under the Public – Private – Partnership
(PPP) model. (www.ka.ictacademy.in)
With training of faculty members and students as the primary objective, ICT Academy has been
working through a seven pillar program in the areas of Faculty Development, Student Skill
Development, Entrepreneurship Development, Youth Empowerment, Industry Institute
Interaction, Digital Empowerment and Research & Publications.

ICT Academy membership with following Institutions within Karnataka:

NMAM IT , Nitte, Sahyadri college of Engineering and Technology, Canara Engineering College
Alva's Institute of Engineering and Technology, Yenepoya Institute of Technology Srinivas
Institute of Technology etc.

Student Skill Development Programs

Student Skill Development programs are offered in both ToT (Train the Trainer) model and
Direct training model. These skill development programs include both Technical and Soft skill
modules. All the courses are developed with the inputs from the Industry experts. As on date
1,36,873 students stand benefited out of this initiative .

ICT Academy also enables students of member institutions to empower them with international
certification at subsidized cost. 41,212 students have been certified by the corporate partners
of ICT Academy.
1. DellEMC Academic Associate Certification for Students on Data Science & Big Data
Analytics
 2. DellEMC Academic Associate Certification for Students on Cloud Infrastructure &
Services
3. VMWare Certification on Vsphere 6.0
4. Autodesk Certified User Certification on Autocad
5. Autodesk Certified User Certification on Digital Prototyping using Inventor
6. Autodesk Certified User Certification on Revit Architecture
ICT Academy member institution students will get the International Certifications of the
partners such as DellEMC, VMware and Autodesk at a subsidized cost.

Student Awards and Competitions

ICT Academy will be conducting unique competition called “Youth Talk”, which is platform to
for the students to improvise their public speaking ability. A unique award titled “ICT Academy
Student Innovator Award” has been constituted to identify and recognize best student
innovators, thereby cultivating the innovation spirit among the students.

ICT ACADEMY INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS

Faculty Development Programs:
 One faculty development program will be hosted in our institution without any Trainer
Fees.
 Any number of faculty members can attend the faculty development program
Technology & Soft Skill) of ICT Academy conducted in the state and across the nation.
Minimum of 2 FDP’s shall be conducted in a month.

ICT Academy Research Journals:

 ICTACT Journal on Communication technology
 ICTACT Journal on Image and video processing
 ICTACT Journal on Soft computing
 ICTACT Journal on Microelectronics
 ICTACT Journal on Management studies
  12 copies of peer reviewed journals will be provided at no cost.
 Inviting Industry leaders as chief guest for your National and International Conferences

Student Skill Training:

 International certification and training programs from Corporate Partners of ICT
Academy (DELLEMC, VMware, Autodesk) for the students at subsidized cost.

Corporate Collaboration:
 Opportunity to collaborate with leading corporate to set up centre of Academic Alliance
at subsidized cost as per the T&C set by the corporate(DELL EMC, VMware, Autodesk)

Corporate Alliances:
1. Oracle Academy Alliance provides free membership, which will enable access to the
resources of oracle, training and free user licenses of Oracle 11g Database and Java.
2. DELLEMC Academic Alliance provides free membership, which will enable access to the
resource portal to both Faculty members and the Students, teaching tools and discounts
on international certifications.
3. Amazon Web Services provides Amazon Web Services Educate Account worth of $75 to
Minimum 100 Students and 10 Faculty Members
4. Salesforce provides free MOOC programs for all the students of the institution and the
faculty members on their platform and they can be part of Salesforce Community.
5. Autodesk provides access to download the softwares of Autodesk at free of cost.
Autodesk will also provide students of Mechanical and Civil an opportunity to
participate in their Global design competitions.
6. Palo Alto provides Authorized Academic Centre status to the Member Institutions of ICT
Academy. Faculty Members will be trained on Security programs of Palo Alto and they
can train the students at no cost.
ICT Academy member institutions will also be able to set up centre of excellences in
association with the corporate partners at a subsidized cost.
Youth Street: A Quarterly Magazine of ICT Academy
1. One copy of magazine will be provided at no cost for the member institution.
2. Opportunity for the Member Institution (Chairman, Principal, Head of the Departments
& Faculty Members) to contribute articles in the magazine which will be published after
the peer review process of the editorial board

Free Software and Access to content:

 Free access to ICT Academy portal, software, resources and MOOC Programs of
Corporate partners (Autodesk, Amazon, VMware)

Power Seminars:
1. Two power seminars will be conducted at your institution
2. ICT Academy Events:
Exclusive invitation to participate in all events conducted by ICT Academy and partner
organizations at special member fee.

ICT Academy Youth Contests:

 Opportunity for Member Institution students to showcase their ideas through speaking
and presentation skills at no cost

ICT Academy Awards:

ICT Academy recognizes Member Institutions by identifying excellence in terms of contribution
and participation in its initiatives
 ICT Academy Academic Partner Excellence Award
 ICT Academy Best Coordinator Award
ICT Academy also identifies and recognizes students for the Innovation and the public speaking
skills through Youth Contest every year
 ICT Academy Students Innovator Award
 ICT Academy Youth Icon
Conference Collaboration:
 Support for conducting National and International level conferences as “Knowledge
Partner”
 ICT will also support the workshop, seminars, symposiums and the important events of
the college by inviting Industry leaders and domain experts.

Institution Membership - Annual Subscription Fees

Type of Institution Fee per Year Fee for Five Years
Engineering Colleges / 70,000 + (9% CGST + 3 Lakh + (9% CGST +
Deemed University 9%SGST) = (82600/-) 9%SGST) = (3,54,000/-)

Subscription Fee should be paid as DD/Cheque in favour of “ICT Academy”, payable at Chennai.
We have read the brochure and membership details applicable to members of ICT Academy,
and we agree to abide by them in its completely.