IIC

Institution's Innovation Council (IIC)

About IIC

Ministry of Education has established Institution’s Innovation Council with the mandate to work closely with our Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to encourage the creative energy of our student community to work on new ideas and innovation and promote them to create start-ups and entrepreneurial ventures. Innovation Cell will focus on creating a complete ecosystem that will foster the culture of Innovation across all educational institutions from ideas generation to pre-incubation, incubation, and graduating from the incubator as successful start-ups. The primary mandate of MIC is to encourage, inspire, and nurture young students by supporting them to work with new ideas while they are in formative years. MIC has envisioned the creation of the Institutional Innovation Council (IICs) across selected HEIs. A network of these IICs will be established to promote innovation in the Institution through multitudinous modes leading to an innovation promotion eco-system on these campuses.

Highlights

  • Secured 2.0 Star Rating as per the Annual Performance Rating of IIC 3.0
  • Secured 2.5 Star Rating as per the Annual Performance Rating of IIC 2.0
  • Recognized as Mentor IIC for other low performing IICs
  • Conducted 34 approved activities in during 2019-20 combining IIC Calendar Activities, MIC- driven Activities, and Self-driven Activities.

Major Focus

  • To conduct various innovation and entrepreneurship-related activities prescribed by Central MIC in time bound fashion.
  • Identify and reward innovations and share success stories.
  • Organize periodic workshops/ seminars/ interactions with entrepreneurs, investors, professionals and create a mentor pool for student innovators.
  • Network with peers and national entrepreneurship development organizations.
  • Create an Institution’s Innovation portal to highlight innovative projects carried out by institution’s faculty and students.
  • Organize Hackathons, idea competition, mini-challenges etc. with the involvement of industries.