Various Innovation & Start-up Programs Launched at Atal Incubation Centre –Sri Krishnadevaraya University

Prof. MRK Reddy, Vice-Chancellor, Sri Krishnadevaraya University in the presence of Yaseen Shareef Shaik, Director, FundEnable, Prof. K. Nagabhushan Raju, Director Atal Incubation Centre – Sri Krishnadevaraya University (AIC – SKU), Dr. M.S.Shivakiran, CEO, AIC-SKU and others has released the posters of three Innovation & entrepreneurship programs, Vanthena 3.0, Ignite 4.0 and Ankur 1.0 on 08^th Nov 2022.

Vanthena 3.0 is a flagship bridging/preincubation program of AIC-SKU that starts from 8^th November 2022. Vanthena 3.0 comprised of intensive bootcamps, master classes, workshop and exciting games on business plan, legal, SDGs and statutory mandates for startups, IPR creation and Financial management for 100days (14 Days in-house training and 80 Days Virtual Training & Mentoring).

Ignite 4.0 is a flagship Entrepreneurship Development Program (EDP) of Atal Incubation Centre – Sri Krishnadevaraya University for the students of AIC-SKU academic partners. Students of the academic partners will learn the nuances of innovations and business models through interactive sessions, one-on-one mentoring sessions and Ideation & design thinking workshops. AIC-SKU is happy to host the students of SV Degree & PG College, Anantapur; Rayalaseema University, Kurnool; SRKR Engineering College, Bhimavaram; Bapatla Engineering College, Bapatla; Malla Reddy College of Engineering & Technology, Hyderabad. Over 120 Applications have received from the colleges and 22 got shortlisted to under this exclusive training.

AIC-SKU on the occasion of Children’s Day launched another ambitious partnership model for High Schools, ANKUR – A three day Tinkering Workshop, Ankur 1.O will be for the school students of 9^th and 11^th standard at Heal Paradise, near Vijayawada (a true Paradise for the under privileged children) from 14 – 16 Nov 2022. Main aim of ANKUR is to seed the problem identification & idea generation capabilities to the students at early stages and hand holding their innovative ideas for the next stages. This workshop comprises of various activities for Out of the Box Thinking, Problem Solving, Idea Generation, Technology Development, etc. designed exclusively to the school students.

About AIC – SKU Confederation

AIC-SKU Confederation is an Atal Incubation Centre (AIC) at Sri Krishnadevaraya University (SKU) supported by Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog, Govt. of India and AP Innovation Society, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh. It is a Special Purpose Vehicle registered as a Not for Profit Section-8 Company (as per the Govt. of India Companies Act 2013). We create

and inculcate entrepreneurial spirit in the community ecosystem and groom start-ups and emerging businesses in the sectors of agriculture, food processing, circular economy, renewable energy & IT which lead to job creation. Our goal includes the promotion of startups through focus based incubator, innovation and creating a startup ecosystem, emerging technology transfer for the success of businesses and job creation & economic development.