Institution’s Innovation Council (IIC)

Mahaveer University

About IIC - Mahaveer University

IIC ID:
IIC Institute Name: Mahaveer University, Meerut, U.P.

Ministry of Education (MoE), Govt. of India has established ‘MoE’s Innovation Cell (MIC)’ to systematically foster the culture of Innovation among all Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). The primary mandate of MIC is to encourage, inspire and nurture young students by supporting them to work with new ideas and transform them into prototypes while they are informative years.
MIC has envisioned encouraging the creation of the Institution Innovation Council (IICs) across selected HEIs. A network of IICs is established to promote innovation and entrepreneurship in the Institution through multitudinous modes leading to an innovation promotion ecosystem on the campuses. MIC has established Institution’s Innovation Council in more than 2700 Institutions till December 2021.

VISION

“To be an institute of academic excellence with global outreach thriving on Innovation, R&D, IPR, and Design Thinking delivering creative and socially responsible professionals and entrepreneurs”.

MISSION

•To foster an ecosystem for research, product development, innovation, incubation and entrepreneurship.
•To in still values and ethics to produce socially responsible technocrats addressing global problems through their startups.

MAJOR FOCUS

•To create a vibrant local innovation ecosystem.
•Start-up supporting mechanism in HEIs.
•Prepare institute for Atal Ranking of institutions on innovation achievements framework.
•Establish functional ecosystem for scouting ideas and pre-incubation of ideas.
•Develop better cognitive ability among students.

FUNCTION OF IIC

•To conduct various Innovation, IPR and entrepreneurship-related activities prescribed by MIC in time bound fashion.
•Identify and reward innovations and share success stories.
•Organize periodic workshops/ seminars/ interactions with entrepreneurs, investors, professionals and create a mentor pool for student innovators.
•Network with peers and national entrepreneurship development organizations.
•Create an Institution’s Innovation portal to highlight innovative projects carried out by institution’s faculty and students.
•Organize Hackathons, idea competition, mini-challenges etc. with the involvement of industries.

IIC 2022-2023 (IIC 5.0)

ABOUT IIC 5.0

IICs is a faculty-experts-student council which takes on multiple activities to promote Innovation and Entrepreneurship round the year. IIC’s objective is to prepare the students with skills like critical thinking, Design Thinking, Innovative thought process and Entrepreneurial mindset.
IIC 5.0 is an upgraded version of IIC 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 & 4.0 .Many features regarding monitoring & submission of reports, assessment criteria, star scheme, type of activities etc. have been added on IIC portal. IIC 5.0 is more comprehensive and will be able to establish a strong ecosystem of innovation, IPR and entrepreneurship in HEIs.

FEATURES

•Semester Based Approach for Preparing and Advising Annual Calendar Plan for IICs.
•Learning Modules for the Activities scheduled as part of IIC Annual Calendar.
•Self Driven and MIC Driven Activities and Differential weightage/ scoring system for each type of activity category.
•Report submission and evaluation by MIC on Quarterly Basis.
•Introduction of New Scoring Mechanism for Rating & Quarterly Rating System.