Live Projects – An Innovative Learning Enabler @ XIME KOCHI

In an endeavor to enrich Kochi student’s exposure to entrepreneurship and industry practices, an agreement was reached with Kerala Start-up Mission (KSUM) to facilitate live projects. Start-ups get management inputs in Marketing, HR, Operations, and Finance from our students and they in return give students' exposure to innovative business models and industry practice.

The arrangement works like a dovetail, with XIME located in the same KINFRA campus that houses KSUM, the largest start-up ecosystem in the country. There are no disruptions in classes as the time-table is scheduled with classes in the morning session and live projects in the afternoon sessions. All students have a live project assigned.

The live project is an innovative practice in XIME Kochi that fully complements our management education philosophy of knowing, doing and being. Students during their live projects get mentored by faculty as well as the start-up founder/associate. The live project is an integral component in a XIME curated course called Accelerated Professional Development that incorporates intensive mentoring were even demonstrating the right values while at work is also emphasized.  

Working in Start-ups is an eye-opener for our students as they get to experience first-hand, the entrepreneurial spirit, challenges, and opportunities that make Start-ups a high energy, innovation enterprise.

Action learning or on the field training in addition to summer internships, is getting embedded into curriculums by leading Business Schools worldwide, to give their students a multi-disciplinary exposure that accelerates learning. XIME Kochi has also now adopted this methodology in their curriculum through Live Projects.

EYEROV (one of the start-ups where students are doing an internship)

EYEROV Technologies is an Indian ROV (underwater drone) technology company. The vision of the company is to disrupt the underwater critical infrastructure inspections industry.

This Kerala-based Start-up developed India's first commercial portable drone that can be used for underwater inspections. Today, the robot comes very handy for location scouting for search and rescue missions, surveillance for the defense sector and for research sectors like fishery and oil & gas. An underwater robotic drone called EyeROV could spot a crack in the hull of a ship or damage to an oil pipeline and seemed like a great fit for defence organisations.

The following are the details of 21 start-ups where all the students of Batch 7 are doing their Live Project.

Prof. Sony Varghese 

Assistant Professor