The Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog in collaboration with UNDP, India on Friday launched the Community Innovator Fellowship (CIF) to mark the International Day of Women & Girls in Science.
Official sources said it will be a one-year-long intensive fellowship programme. The fellowship has been developed as a pre-incubation model so as to provide the youth an opportunity to establish their social enterprise focusing on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) based solutions for solving community issues.
“During the course of this fellowship, each fellow will be hosted at one of the AIM’s Atal Community Innovation Centres (ACICs) and shall acquire SDG awareness, entrepreneurial skills and life skills while they are working on their idea. The ACICs would nurture youth-led innovations by providing suitable resources in terms of operating facilities, co-working space, maker labs and a dynamic business network to the innovator,” a PIB release read.
Through the ACICs, the fellowship will propel the journey of an innovator from ideating to commercialising via a focused one-year model. The CIF Program will focus on facilitating knowledge and capacity building among aspiring community innovators essential to their entrepreneurship journey.
This is one of the ways with which AIM shall try and achieve participation of youth in mainstreaming social enterprise as a culture in the start-up ecosystem as well as promoting women entrepreneurs from different regions in India. AIM also released the Operations Manual for establishing an ACIC ecosystem.
The manual is a knowledge and capacity building framework which shall support the foundational and operational functioning of an ACIC. The manual focuses on creation of pillars that play an important role in designing and establishing a support system to develop a holistic innovation ecosystem.
ACICs have been established with a focus to develop the start-up and innovation ecosystem in the underserved regions of the country. Currently, there are 12 ACICs across 9 states in the country and the target is to establish 50 such centres in the country, the release added.
The Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog in collaboration with UNDP, India on Friday launched the Community Innovator Fellowship (CIF) to mark the International Day of Women & Girls in Science.Official sources said it will be a one-year-long intensive fellowship programme. The fellowship has been developed as a pre-incubation model so as to provide the youth an opportunity to establish their social enterprise focusing on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) based solutions for solving community issues.“During the course of this fellowship, each fellow will be hosted at one of the AIM’s Atal Community Innovation Centres (ACICs) and shall acquire SDG awareness, entrepreneurial skills and life skills while they are working on their idea. The ACICs would nurture youth-led innovations by providing suitable resources in terms of operating facilities, co-working space, maker labs and a dynamic business network to the innovator,” a PIB release read. Through the ACICs, the fellowship will propel the journey of an innovator from ideating to commercialising via a focused one-year model. The CIF Program will focus on facilitating knowledge and capacity building among aspiring community innovators essential to their entrepreneurship journey.This is one of the ways with which AIM shall try and achieve participation of youth in mainstreaming social enterprise as a culture in the start-up ecosystem as well as promoting women entrepreneurs from different regions in India. AIM also released the Operations Manual for establishing an ACIC ecosystem.The manual is a knowledge and capacity building framework which shall support the foundational and operational functioning of an ACIC. The manual focuses on creation of pillars that play an important role in designing and establishing a support system to develop a holistic innovation ecosystem.ACICs have been established with a focus to develop the start-up and innovation ecosystem in the underserved regions of the country. Currently, there are 12 ACICs across 9 states in the country and the target is to establish 50 such centres in the country, the release added.