Under the Indo-Danish bilateral Green strategic partnership, the Atal Innovation Mission (AIM)- Innovation Center Denmark (ICDK) challenge was concluded.
Context
Under the Indo-Danish bilateral Green strategic partnership, the Atal Innovation Mission (AIM)- Innovation Center Denmark (ICDK) challenge was concluded.
About the AIM-ICDK Water innovation challenge
- Innovation: The Water innovation challenge was placed to identify promising innovators from India, who could represent and form the Indian participation in the global Next Generation Water Action program.
- Host: It is hosted by International Water Association and Denmark Technical University.
- Procedure: The selected teams would engage the young talents from leading universities and the innovation hub of 5 countries including India, Denmark, Kenya, Ghana and South Korea to build their skills and to apply their technical disciplines, innovation capacity and solutions to challenge and catalyse water solutions towards smart livable cities.
- As part of the India challenge, student and startup teams were invited to present their ideas in following challenge areas:
- Digital water management solutions
- Solutions for monitoring and prevention of leakage in city water supply
- Waste water management across rural belts and urban settlements
- Rainwater harvesting in rural and urban settlements
- Safe and sustained drinking water
- India was also a challenge partner host with AIM as the challenge-host for India.
Atal Innovation Mission (AIM)
- It is Government of India’s flagship initiative under the NITI Aayog.
- It aims to promote a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in the country.
- It was setup in 2016.
- Engaging: AIM has taken a holistic approach to ensure the creation of a problem-solving innovative mindset in schools and for creating an ecosystem of entrepreneurship in universities, research institutions, private and MSME sector.
- Monitoring: All initiatives of AIM are currently monitored and managed systematically by using real-time MIS systems and dynamic dashboards.
- AIM is also currently having its programs reviewed by third party agencies for ensuring continuous improvements.
|
