As a part of the Ministry of Human Resource Development’s flagship scheme of promoting innovations in the higher education institutes in country, The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has set up Institutions Innovation Council (IIC) at the National Centre for Innovation in Distance Education (NCIDE).
The IIC at IGNOU aims at promoting idea generation, grassroots innovation, develops prototype, solve problems in the local context with a view to generating intellectual property. The IIC, IGNOU is organising an ‘Idea Competition’ or which bonafide IGNOU students can submit their ideas in the prescribed proforma to the director, National Centre for Innovations in Distance Education (NCIDE) at IGNOU through email at ncide@ignou.ac.in or by post. The proforma can be downloaded from IGNOU’s website — www.ignou.ac.in. The last date for receiving the ideas is January 20, 2019.
The selected students from different regions will be invited to present their work in the Festival of Ideas & the selected best three entries will be awarded prizes & certificates.
The selected students will be invited to participate and present their ideas in the Festival of Ideas on February 28, 2019 at IGNOU, Maidan Garhi, New Delhi. Further, they will be mentored and nurtured for developing a business plan to work on the ideas. This will be a unique opportunity for IGNOU students to showcase their ideas and vision.
IGNOU students can submit their original and creative ideas that can solve any daily life problem in any of the fields including food, agriculture and rural development, clean energy and alternate fuel, clean water and water management, swacchhata initiatives and waste management, health care and hygiene, education and open university system and smart transportation and traffic management.