2019 – Posted in: Press Information Bureau – Tags: atal innovation mission

Atal Tinkering Laboratories establishing in schools

(Ministry of Human Resource Development)

WHAT

8878 schools have been selected for establishing Atal Tinkering Lab (ATLs) to promote research and innovation in schools.

ATAL THINKERING LAB

Atal Tinkering Labs – to promote creative, innovative mind set in schools.
ATL is a program run by Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) under NITI Aayog to foster curiosity and innovative mindset in young students across India to encourage research and innovation in schools across the country.
These ATLs are dedicated innovation workspaces of 1200-1500 square feet where do-it-yourself (DIY) kits on latest technologies like 3D Printers, Robotics, Internet of Things (IOT), Miniaturized electronics are installed.
Students from Grade VI to Grade XII can tinker with these technologies and learn to create innovative solutions using these technologies.
This will enable create a problem solving, innovative mind set within millions of students across the country.
ATL program is also undertaking on-the-ground activities to engage students and teachers in identifying problems in and around their communities and creating innovative solutions leveraging the ATL technologies to achieve the objectives of the program.

ATL VISION

The vision of the initiative is ‘To create One million children in India as Neoteric Innovators’.

ATAL INCUBATORS

Atal Incubators – promoting entrepreneurship in universities and industry
At the university, NGO, SME and Corporate industry levels, AIM is setting up world-class Atal Incubators (AICs) that would trigger and enable successful growth of sustainable startups in every sector /state of the country, thereby promoting entrepreneurs and job creators in the country addressing both commercial and social entrepreneurship opportunities in India and applicable globally.
Women led incubators and entrepreneurial startups are strongly encouraged by AIM.

ATAL INNOVATION MISSION

AIM is a flagship initiative set up by the NITI Aayog to promote innovation and entrepreneurship across the country.

AIM would play an instrumental role in alignment of innovation policies between central, state and sectoral innovation schemes incentivizing the establishment and promotion of an ecosystem of innovation and entrepreneurship at various levels – higher secondary schools, science, engineering and higher academic institutions, and SME/MSME industry, corporate and NGO levels.

GOAL OF AIM

Long term goals of AIM include establishment and promotion of Small Business Innovation Research and Development at a national scale (AIM SBIR) for the SME/MSME/startups, and in rejuvenating Science and Technology innovations in major research institutions of the country like CSIR (Council of Scientific Industrial Research), Agri Research (ICAR) and Medical Research (ICMR) aligned to national socio-economic needs.

Source: PIB

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