IIC@NIET

Fostering Innovation
By Empowering Ideas

Institution's Innovation Council (IIC)

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 creation of ‘Institution’s Innovation Council (IICs) across selected HEIs.

Top IIC Rating Institute

Among India

A network of IICs are established to promote innovation and entrepreneurship in the Institution through multitudinous modes leading to an innovation promotion ecosystem in the campuses.

About IIC- NIET

IIC ID: IC201810590

IIC Institute Name: Noida Institute of Engineering and Technology, Greater Noida, U.P.

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.

Certificate of Achievement

We are proud to announce that the Noida Institute of Engineering and Technology (NIET), Greater Noida, has been recognized by the Ministry of Education's Innovation Cell, Government of India, for its active participation in promoting innovation and entrepreneurship on campus. The Institution's Innovation Council (IIC) at NIET has successfully undertaken various activities during the IIC calendar year 2023-24, as prescribed by the Innovation Cell.

During the academic year 2023-24, the IIC at NIET organized a series of events, workshops, and initiatives to promote innovation and start-up culture. These activities were designed to inspire creativity, problem-solving, and entrepreneurial thinking among students and faculty members.

Certificate No: 461
Issued On: January 16, 2025
Recognized By: Ministry of Education, Government of India

Journey of IIC established at the Institute

Noida Institute of Engineering & Technology, Greater Noida, U. P. (IIC ID-IC201810590) has established Institution Innovation Council (IIC) as per the norms of Innovation Cell, Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India, during IIC Calendar year 2018-19.

The Main aim of IIC is to mentor and spread awareness on fostering innovation at Institute level. The Activities of IIC to organize and submit reports on various activities such as innovation, IPR, Start-ups and EDP etc. IIC- NIET have achieved highest star ranking in previous years and selected as a Mentor Institute to help other Mentee Institute (HEIs and Schools) who have less star ranking to improve in next year.

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 function 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 2024-2025 (IIC 7.0)

About IIC 7.0

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 7.0 is an upgraded version of IIC 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 and 6.0. Many features regarding monitoring & submission of reports, assessment criteria, star scheme, type of activities etc. have been added on IIC portal. IIC 7.0 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.

Mentor-Mentee Scheme for IIC Institutions

The objective of Mentor-Mentee scheme for IIC institutions is to engage high performing IIC institutions specially those have secured star rating of 3.5 and above during the previous IIC calendar year to act as mentor to the IIC institutions those are need of guidance and support. This twining program will help IIC institutions to facilitate knowledge exchange and resource mobilization between institutions by offering inter-institutional collaborations. The scheme is designed to twin one mentor IIC institute with up to 5 mentee IIC institutes.