Atal Innovation Mission (AIM)

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• Atal Innovation Mission recently launched fresh applications for Community Innovator Fellowship.

About Atal Innovation Mission (AIM)

• Agency
  • It was launched by NITI aayog.
• Aim
  • To create and promote an ecosystem of innovation and entrepreneurship across the country via interventions at school, university, research institutions, MSME and industry levels.
  • To provide platform and collaboration opportunities for different stakeholders.
• Initiatives:
  • Atal Tinkering Labs: Creating a problem-solving mindset across schools in India.
  • Atal Incubation Centres: Fostering world-class startups and adding a new dimension to the incubator model.
  • Atal New India Challenges: Fostering product innovations and aligning them to the needs of various sectors/ministries.
  • Mentor India Campaign: A national mentor network in collaboration with the public sector, corporates and institutions.
  • Atal Community Innovation Centre: To stimulate community-centric innovation and ideas in the unserved /underserved regions including Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities.
  • Atal Research and Innovation for Small Enterprises (ARISE): To stimulate innovation and research in the MSME industry.
  • It has also launched AIM Prime, AIM iCREST to boost industrial exposure of students and innovators.

Source: PIB