Dassault Systemes Fondation to seed future innovators and entrepreneurs

By OEM Update Editorial April 21, 2021 4:43 pm IST

Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog signed an agreement with Dassault Systemes Fondation to increase innovation and entrepreneurship.

One of the flagship programs of AIM, the Atal Tinkering Labs (ATLs) has played a pivotal role in fostering creativity and imagination amongst school children. Dassault Systemes Fondation dedicated to transform the future of education and research in India with 3D technologies and virtual universes, is all set to contribute to the ATL program in three broad areas – project based, self-paced learning content, hackathons and challenges and inter-country academia collaborations.

Dassault Systemes Fondation has designed and developed an initiative as part of its CSR objectives, initial set of ‘Ready to use’ well documented self-learning training cum instructional playbook, with appropriate videos for visual understanding which they would be sharing with the ATL students that they can access digitally. This playbook comes with instructional videos for teachers so that it can be implemented with minimal support from experts. This content shall be available for AIM to offer to all schools with ATLs and other schools as well as out of school children in India for use.

Speaking during a virtual session of signing today, Mission Director AIM, NITI Aayog R Ramanan said, “We feel privileged to launch the partnership of Atal Innovation Mission with Dassault Systemes Fondation. Dassault Systems are global leaders in design and engineering of large-scale mission critical systems. This would not only enable great interest in scientific research and innovation for our ATL Tinkering Lab students but also stimulate engineering innovation capability making them Future ready innovators and job creators from India accessing world class content available through Dassault.”

Through this collaboration, AIM and Dassault Systemes Fondation shall jointly encourage inter country collaborations amongst schools and school students for collaborative science / technology learning, skilling and cultural interactions amongst students.

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