OTHER FLAGSHIP INTERVENTIONS OF AIM THAT HAVE ALREADY MADE A HUGE IMPACT

● AIM-ICDK Water Innovation Challenge - AIM, NITI Aayog has partnered with Innovation Center Denmark (ICDK), Denmark Embassy in India and the Denmark Technical University (DTU) to identify Innovative and next-gen solutions to solve proposed challenges in collaboration with corporate and public partners. The initiative engages young talent from leading universities and innovation hubs to come up with technology driven innovative solutions for effective water management for digital water management solutions, solutions for monitoring and prevention of leakage in city water supply, wastewater management across rural/agri belts and urban settlements, rainwater harvesting in rural and urban settlements. ● India Australia Circular Economy Hackathon

(I-ACE) - a joint effort by AIM, NITI Aayog, Government of India and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia to enable the students and startups/ MSMEs of both the nations in fostering innovative solutions for the development of a circular economy across the food system value chain with the aim of increasing the long-term health and resilience of our planet, through innovative technology solutions.

● Youth Co:Lab - AIM, NITI Aayog in collaboration with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) India has launched Youth Co:Lab which aims at accelerating social entrepreneurship and innovation in young India recognising young people as critical drivers of sustainable development. Through Youth Co:Lab, young entrepreneurs and innovators will get a chance to connect with governments, mentors, incubators and investors, who will help equip them with entrepreneurial skills.

● AIM-PRIME - AIM, NITI Aayog has launched AIMPRIME (Program for Researchers on Innovations, Market-Readiness & Entrepreneurship), an initiative to promote and support science-based deep-tech startups & ventures across India through hands-on practical insights and mentoring from experts and mentors who have been nurturing science-based deep-tech startups in global innovation hotspots as well as in India. Beneficiaries get access to indepth learning via a comprehensive lecture series, curated video library, live team projects, exercises, and project-specific mentoring and plenty of peerto-peer learning opportunities.

● AIM iCREST - Incubator Capabilities Enhancement for a Robust Ecosystem for high performing Startups – launched in collaboration with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Wadhwani Foundation –providing global expertise and showcase proven best practices to the incubator networks. It enables incubators and their teams to gain deep insights about incubation and acceleration and learn about best practices of about 200 incubators and accelerators globally.