NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) today announced
the signing of a Statement of Intent (SOI) with SAP to promote a culture of
innovation and entrepreneurship. As part of the SOI, SAP in 2018 will adopt 100
Atal Tinkering Laboratories (ATL) for five years to nurture the science,
technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) learning among secondary school
children across India.
Acknowledging the importance of such collaborations, Amitabh
Kant, CEO of NITI Aayog, said, “India’s growth for the next few decades will
depend on the innovations coming out of these tinkering labs. Tomorrow’s ideas
come from students, who will disrupt industries and creative sectors with new
technologies and processes which will thrust India into the leadership position
for technological creativity and innovation. This is possible only through
effective public-private partnership and we are delighted to have SAP partner
with us on AIM to nurture the future talent of our country”. The program aims
to enable students to learn advanced technology topics relevant to digital
transformation and the Internet of Things, e.g. Design Thinking methodology,
introduction to programming languages and experiential science learning.
Ramanathan Ramanan, Mission Director, AIM, added, “Such
partnerships are a win-win situation for AIM and its partners. This partnership
shall help support and boost innovations from the ATLs. The support to Atal
Incubators will catalyze adoption of the innovations to commercial scales,
ensuring deployment of the innovations to the domestic and international
markets quickly and efficiently.”
SAP employee volunteers will coach and mentor students in
advanced technology topics and the design lab of SAP Labs India, will provide
trainings and allow students to gain hands-on experience with technology
gadgets.
NITI Aayog’s AIM envisions the creation of a collaborative
ecosystem, where students, teachers, mentors and industry partners work to
facilitate innovation, foster scientific temper and an entrepreneurial spirit
in the children of today, who will go on to become successful contributors to
nation-building tomorrow.
About Atal Innovation Mission of NITI Aayog
The Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) is Government of India’s
flagship initiative to promote a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in
the country. AIM is mandated to create an umbrella structure to oversee
innovation ecosystem of the country and revolutionizing the innovation
eco-system - touching upon the entire innovation life cycle through various
programs. Atal Tinkering Laboratories (ATLs) create innovators, Atal Incubation
Centre and support to Established Incubation Centre will take the innovations
to the market and a network of Incubators shall help create enterprises around
these innovations.
Till date, AIM has already announced selection of 2441 schools
across India to establish ATLs, covering 93% of the total districts in India
and 98% of the upcoming smart cities representing all states and 5 out of 7
UTs. In the last one year, more than 50,000+ school students have been engaged
in ATLs.
The goal remains to expand the reach of ATLs to every district
of our country and establish over 30,000 ATLs covering the length and breadth
of India over next three years. AIM also ensures training of teachers and
mentors and organized a pan-India training workshop “Unbox Tinkering” which
lasted over 100 days and at 10 locations. 500+ teachers were trained and 100+
prototypes created by teachers from different streams of science, mathematics,
history etc. Several other initiatives, including ‘ATL School of the Month
Challenge’, Community Day are conducted frequently to engage the ATLs. The next
edition of the Community Day on April 14, , on which children, parents and
teachers of all schools near an ATL will be invited to come experience
innovation first-hand.
S. No.
|
State/UT
|
Atal Tinkering Labs
|
1
|
A & N islands
|
4
|
2
|
Andhra Pradesh
|
164
|
3
|
Arunachal Pradesh
|
14
|
4
|
Assam
|
56
|
5
|
Bihar
|
58
|
6
|
Chandigarh
|
17
|
7
|
Chhattisgarh
|
86
|
8
|
Dadra and Nagar Haveli
|
2
|
9
|
Delhi
|
100
|
10
|
Goa
|
11
|
11
|
Gujarat
|
120
|
12
|
Haryana
|
95
|
13
|
Himachal Pradesh
|
29
|
14
|
Jammu and Kashmir
|
35
|
15
|
Jharkhand
|
45
|
16
|
Karnataka
|
177
|
17
|
Kerala
|
213
|
18
|
Madhya Pradesh
|
153
|
19
|
Maharashtra
|
193
|
20
|
Manipur
|
16
|
21
|
Meghalaya
|
11
|
22
|
Mizoram
|
11
|
23
|
Nagaland
|
9
|
24
|
Odisha
|
107
|
25
|
Puducherry
|
7
|
26
|
Punjab
|
78
|
27
|
Rajasthan
|
92
|
28
|
Sikkim
|
9
|
29
|
Tamil Nadu
|
171
|
30
|
Telangana
|
60
|
31
|
Tripura
|
16
|
32
|
Uttar Pradesh
|
186
|
33
|
Uttarakhand
|
28
|
34
|
West Bengal
|
68
|
|
Total
|
2441
|
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