SAP to impart digital education to 30,000 students
Globally-spread SAP will create a platform for the existing 68 Atal Incubation Centers (AICs) across India to help curate and support the stakeholders’ engagement and empower all incubators to connect better with their networks in an engaging way.
The programme will be under the guidance of Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) and NITI Aayog. The two institutions have strengthened their partnership with SAP Labs India to promote digital literacy, innovation and entrepreneurship in India.
As part of the renewed Statement of Intent (SOI), SAP will conduct Training of Trainers (ToT) under UnBox Tinkering for around 500 teachers in the next three years. SAP aims to adopt 100 Atal Tinkering Laboratories and impart digital education to 30,000 students from the states of North East, Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka.
Through a competitive process, SAP will select and enable select startups from AICs for further accelerator support and facilitate investment for up to five startups.
SAP will conduct three idea challenges in Karnataka to curate and select up to 100 youth-led or social enterprises or ideas in the next three years.
The idea challenge will support 25 youth entrepreneurs to incubate their ideas, leading to fostering socio-economic development and jobs in Karnataka.
“The collaboration between AIM and SAP Labs is of great value addition for the ATLs and the youth-led startups with the AICs,” Mission Director Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog, R Ramanan said on 11 Dec 2020.
“The students, teachers and the startups will hugely benefit from this partnership. Such partnerships are win-win for both AIM and its partners and equip us in creating a collaborative ecosystem, where students, teachers, mentors and industry partners work to facilitate innovation, foster scientific temper and an entrepreneurial spirit across the country,” Ramanan said.
“We are pleased to strengthen our partnership with Atal Tinkering Laboratories (ATL). Promoting Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), education and digital skills among school children will enable inclusive and equitable growth in the society, said Sindhu Gangadharan, SVP and Managing Director, SAP Labs India.
“With the adoption of 100 ATL’s in the next three years, SAP will equip young talent with advanced digital skills, experiential STEM education, and expertise to drive socio-economically relevant innovation at a young age. We aim to strengthen and catalyze the incubator and startup ecosystem significantly,” said Gangadharan.
Since its partnership in 2018, SAP has already adopted 49 Atal Tinkering Laboratories to promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education to around 9,700 secondary school children across India. Additionally, SAP has also conducted 5 UnBox Tinkering sessions and provided training to 149 teachers with topics focusing on Electronics, Mechatronics, IoT, Digital skills and Coding.
The Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) is the Government of India’s flagship initiative to promote a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in the country. AIM’s objective is to develop new programmes and policies for fostering innovation in different sectors of the economy, provide platform and collaboration opportunities for other stakeholders and create an umbrella structure to oversee the innovation ecosystem of the country.
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