Project-Based Learning

Project Week serves as an extension of students’ existing Service Learning and Community Engagement. It creates a bond with every students regular service, upskills individual, and learns from the best practice in that field. During Project Week, the ‘process’ is as important as the ‘product’, wherein the learning that will happen while researching, planning, proposing, and implementing a Project Week is as important as the ‘work’ done at the project location. The Project Week should follow the IPARD cycle like regular Triveni activities, which includes Investigation, Planning, Action, Reflection, and Demonstration.

Every year, our first-year students embark on a student-led and faculty-mentored project week wherein students work with leading non-profit organisations across India. Students initiate, reserach, plan and pitch their own projects with clear deliverables and participate in a public showcase to share what you have learned. We have NGO partners across causes, including children’s rights, biodiversity, human rights, sustainable living, and even Hindustani classical music preservation.

Watch this year’s Project Week videos on YouTube.

MUWCI students who like to go beyond the regular curriculum and sharpen their 21st century skills — creativity, collaboration, communication, and critical thinking — are also offered the Grants-Based Certificate (GBC) programme. You can pick an area of interest and a problem you would like to address in the local community. Students’ ability to tailor the programme to their interests means there has been a wide variety of past project topics at MUWCI. From social entrepreneurship and the arts to robotics and public health, project topics have been creative and innovative, allowing students to sow the seeds for real change.

The Grants-Based Certificate is ideal for students who seek to go beyond the IB and delve further into Project-Based Learning. You have the autonomy to choose your project, and you will learn to develop your voice and project management skills. In the second year, students are mentored by faculty and external experts to understand the problem better and implement innovative suggestions and strategies. The GBC is rigorous, and an important part of your journey and accomplishment is the showcase at the end of your second year. Students who successfully complete the project will graduate with an additional certificate citation besides the IB Diploma.

We currently have two major grants-based opportunities: GoMAD (Make a difference) and Young Aurora Initiative.