Chitkara University Signs MoU with Applus+ to Deepen Industry-Led Learning and Research in 2026

Chitkara University has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Applus+. It's the kind of agreement that sounds procedural on paper but actually opens something up: a proper channel between what happens inside a classroom and what happens on a factory floor or inside an engineering lab. Students get access to internships, industrial training, industry-led projects, expert interactions and technical workshops. Faculty get something too, though a bit different: more room to sit alongside industry professionals and work on research, consultancy and innovation together.

Dr. Cavita Taragi, Pro Vice Chancellor for Career Advancement Services and Head of Placements & Industry Partnerships at Chitkara University, signed the agreement along with Francesc Pascual, Managing Director of Applus+ IDIADA. There's something worth sitting with here; this isn't just two names on a document. It's meant to build an actual bridge, connecting course material with the kind of exposure that usually only comes once someone's already working.

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Students stand to gain the most in the near term. Training with industry professionals, live project work, technical workshops, and direct time with experts who deal with these exact problems for a living all of it becomes possible now in a way it wasn't quite as formalised before. And faculty aren't left out of the picture either. Applus+ brings serious depth in engineering, and that opens doors for research and consultancy work that would otherwise take years to build informally.

At the signing, Dr. Madhu Chitkara, President and Co-Founder of Chitkara University, talked about why this kind of tie-up matters so much right now. "Industry engagement is an important part of preparing students for the realities of professional practice," she said. "This association with Applus+ provides opportunities for students and faculty to learn from industry experience while also creating scope for academic and professional knowledge to come together through projects, training and research."

The signing itself is really just the starting point. What comes next matters more: a long-term relationship where students, faculty and industry experts keep working together over time, not a one-off collaboration that fades once the press release goes out. Applus+ brings decades of technical expertise. Chitkara University brings a student body that's genuinely eager for this kind of hands-on exposure, the sort that's hard to replicate inside a lecture hall alone.

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Both sides are thinking long-term about where this goes: more projects, more placements, more research work that pulls academic thinking and industry practice into the same room. For Chitkara University, this MoU isn't really the headline. It's the opening line of a much longer story with Applus+, one that's only just getting started.

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