Innovative EdTech platform, RISE, has announced that they have expanded to the Indonesian market and have signed MoUs with 6 Indonesian universities at the B20 Summit, Bali. The edtech platform aims to connect higher education between India and Indonesia with this association. The top Indonesian universities to sign MoU with RISE are Universitas MahaSaraswati Denpasar, ITBM, ITB University, University of Amikom, Yogyakarta, and Dhyana Pura University, Bali.
These partnerships will enable RISE to expand their operations to Indonesia and bring high quality, skill oriented programs to the Indonesian universities.
Commenting on the expansion and the MoU signings, Gaurav Bhatia, CEO at RISE, who was also present at the B20 Summit, Bali stated,” We are very happy to collaborate with multiple Indonesian Universities and provide them our industry driven, skill based courses to the cover the existing skill gap. ”
The expansion comes in the the backdrop as the edtech platform, RISE has been on the forefront of the hybrid edtech innovation in India with various new PG Program courses, and collaborations with multiple leading institutes in India like Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s KM Munshi Institute of Advanced Studies, Shree LR Tiwari Degree College, MIT WPU etc. The platform has also successfully conducted India’s largest ever Cyber Security hackathon called- GET SET HACK by RISE with more than 22 thousand participants.
Founded in April 2021, RISE has been set up with a mission to encourage and empower students across cities, strata, and societies to be socially and culturally aware leaders of the world. They help students to transform & succeed in the fields of technology, data science, analytics, artificial intelligence, public policy, cybersecurity, finance & accounting, fintech, global business administration, marketing research, and more.
RISE also works with Universities and other higher education institutions by providing full stack services which enable them to go digital and increase their reach across geographies. Besides, and more significantly, RISE also provides scholarships for women in tech and discounted courses for the underprivileged. Each course is affordable and, crucially, is curated and taught by industry experts, thus increasing the chances of employability.
Based out of Pune, with offices in Bengaluru and Hyderabad, and boasting an 80-member strong team, RISE is targeting a fourfold growth both in the number of courses and students in the coming financial year.
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