MIC Driven Activity

MIC Driven Activity – MIC schedules various activities from time to time on its own or  in collaboration with partner organization and government departments. These activities are scheduled on IIC portal under MIC Driven Activity tab.

MIC Driven Activity
Title Description Quarter Start Date End Date
MIC Driven Activity Quarter I
NEAT Logo Contest NEAT Logo Contest Quarter I 27-09-2019 25-10-2019
Innovation Day Campaign As we all agreed on 11th September 2019(during First Annual Innovation Festival of MHRD’s Innovation Cell) to celebrate Innovation Day on 15th October 2019 to mark Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam’s Birth Anniversary, join us to make an impact together by organizing Innovation Campaign Activities for IICs between 23rd September 2019 to 15th October Quarter I,Quarter II 23-09-2019 15-10-2019
InnovateToINSPIRE 2019 by EESL The above challenge is currently inviting applications from academia (students and (or) faculties) to submit sustainable and scalable solutions (PoC/Prototype) in the thematic area of Grid Management, Energy Efficiency, Clean Energy, E-Mobility and Financial Instruments Quarter I 15-08-2019 30-08-2019
India First Leadership Talk Series India First Leadership Talk Series with Hon’ble HRD Minister Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’. Quarter I 22-08-2019 22-08-2019
MIC Driven Activity Quarter II
Idea Submission in Smart India Hackathon 2020 The top 7 teams (5 teams for Software edition and 2 teams for Hardware edition) nominations (from internal hackathon) must be submitted on the SIH portal by the College SPOC only. SPOC registration will start from 1st December 2019 The last date for team nomination and idea submission by College SPOC on SIH portal will be 25th January 2020. This deadline will not be extended under any circumstances and no exceptions will be made. Quarter II,Quarter III 29-11-2019 25-01-2020
Workshop on National Innovation and Start-up Policy (NISP) Organise Awareness Workshop on National Innovation and Start-up Policy (NISP) for Students and Faculties in Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) Quarter II 14-11-2019 31-12-2019
Innovation Day Campaign As we all agreed on 11th September 2019(during First Annual Innovation Festival of MHRD’s Innovation Cell) to celebrate Innovation Day on 15th October 2019 to mark Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam’s Birth Anniversary, join us to make an impact together by organizing Innovation Campaign Activities for IICs between 23rd September 2019 to 15th October Quarter I,Quarter II 23-09-2019 15-10-2019
Workshop on National Innovation and Start-up Policy (NISP) Organise Awareness Workshop on National Innovation and Start-up Policy (NISP) for Students and Faculties in Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) Quarter II 14-11-2019 31-12-2019
MIC Driven Activity Quarter III
Leadership Talk leadership talk is with Ms. Shradha Sharma, Founder, and Chief Editor, YourStory.com Quarter III 15-04-2020 15-04-2020
Leadership Talk Talk with Dr. Anand Deshpande, Founder, Chairman & Managing Director, Persistent Systems Ltd Quarter III 14-04-2020 14-04-2020
Leadership Talk Dr. VK Saraswat, Member NITI Aayog.Dr. Saraswat will talk about how Make in India will become more relevant in post-Covid world. Quarter III 13-04-2020 13-04-2020
MHRD Mega Online Challenge Samadhan The mega online challenge “SAMADHAN” (www.mic.gov.in/samadhan) has been launched by MIC and AICTE in collaboration with Forge and InnovatioCuris to test the ability of students and Educators to innovate Quarter III 08-04-2020 14-04-2020
Leadership Talk Leadership talk with Mr.Abhishek Singh,CEO, My Gov Quarter III 11-04-2020 11-04-2020
Leadership Talk Leadership talk with prof. Partha Chakraborty, Chairman National Digital Library,Ex-Director, IIT Kharagpur Quarter III 10-04-2020 10-04-2020
Leadership Talk Leadership talk with Prof. Anil D.Sahasrbudhe, Chairman, AICTE Quarter III 09-04-2020 09-04-2020
Leadership Talk Leadership talk with Prof. K Vijay Raghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser, Government of India Quarter III 08-04-2020 08-04-2020
Leadership Talk Leadership Talk with Mr. Abhishek Suryawanshi, Director, Wikipedia Swastha Quarter III 07-04-2020 07-04-2020
IIC National Innovation Contest-PoC Submission IIC National Innovation Contest-Idea Submission. Please refer: https://mic.gov.in/mic/innovationcontest/ Quarter III,Quarter IV 17-03-2020
Impact Lecture Series-Lecture 2 The objective of the Impact Lecture Series scheme is to promote and create awareness on innovation, startup and Intellectual Property (IP) among students and faculties in IIC institutes. Through this impact lecture series, selected IICs will organize two lecture series in the field of innovation, startup and Intellectual Property (IP) by inviting external experts or successful innovators, startup founders, patent experts to campus. This scheme is designed for aspirational Institutes that are lagging in performance. Only those institutes which are recommended for funding must select this activity as MIC driven, other institutes who conducted impact lecture series without MIC funding support can add this activity as self-driven or submit the report as MIC driven. Quarter III,Quarter IV 19-02-2020 30-04-2020
Impact Lecture Series-Lecture I The objective of the Impact Lecture Series scheme is to promote and create awareness on innovation, startup and Intellectual Property (IP) among students and faculties in IIC institutes. Through this impact lecture series, selected IICs will organize two lecture series in the field of innovation, startup and Intellectual Property (IP) by inviting external experts or successful innovators, startup founders, patent experts to campus. This scheme is designed for aspirational Institutes that are lagging in performance. Only those institutes which are recommended for funding must select this activity as MIC driven, other institutes who conducted impact lecture series without MIC funding support can add this activity as self-driven or submit the report as MIC driven. Quarter III,Quarter IV 19-02-2020 30-04-2020
Idea Submission for the Launch of 5G hackathon by Department of Telecommunications To identify and promote applications relevant to India in the 5G realm, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has launched ‘5G Hackathon’ (www.5ghackathon.in) in association with a number of government, academia& industry stakeholders. This Hackathon is aimed at shortlisting India focussed cutting edge ideas that can be converted into workable 5G products and solutions. The Hackathon will be spread across three phases beginning from February 21, 2020 and culminate in a grand felicitation ceremony at India Mobile Congress on October 16, 2020. Winners of the various phases will share a total prize pool of Indian Rs. 250 Million. 5G Hackathon will convert innovating ideas into products and solutions in different verticals and develop India specific Use cases around 5G. Various phases of the Hackathon broadly include preliminary submission of ideas, selection of 100 best ideas, mentorship and support from the Hackathon partners, development of solutions/products, selection and testing of 30 best solutions/ products on 5G trial network followed by felicitation of the 3 best ideas during India Mobile Congress (IMC), 2020. Participants can develop 5G solutions from across 10 categories including Healthcare, Education & Governance, AgriTech & Livestock, Environment, Public Safety & Disaster Management Enterprise, Smart Cities & Infrastructure, Cyber Security, Banking, Finance & Insurance, Logistics & Transportation, Multimedia & Broadcast, among others Quarter III 11-03-2020 15-04-2020
Science Day National Science Day Quarter III,Quarter IV 02-03-2020 06-03-2020
IIC National Innovation Contest-Idea Submission https://mic.gov.in/mic/innovationcontest/ Quarter III,Quarter IV 15-02-2020 06-03-2020