Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog has signed an agreement with Dassault Systemes Foundation to promote STEM based innovation and entrepreneurship among aspiring young minds across the country.

As per the agreement, Dassault Systemes Foundation shall design and organise innovative challenges/hackathons for ATLs, promoting problem solving skills, scientific and technology based exploratory learning skills and innovation culture amongst students and teachers.

Speaking during a virtual session of SoI signing today, Mission Director AIM, NITI Aayog R. Ramanan said, “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.”

Sharing his thoughts about the collaboration with AIM, Chairman of Board of Directors, Sudarshan Mogasale, Dassault Systemes Fondation, India said, "The association with Atal Innovation Mission will take this journey to newer heights as we work with Atal Tinkering Labs across the country to augment the spirit of innovation in school children. We are happy to contribute to Atal Innovation Mission’s dream to bring out this transformation in schools in India.”

“Dassault Systemes Foundation will contribute with project based, activities based and self-paced learning content for Atal Tinkering Labs. The learning content has been created and validated by experienced faculty members from this domain. With AIM, joint hackathons will be hosted, student challenges and inter country academia collaboration programs will be organised for schools to inculcate innovation, product design and a maker’s culture among the school students and seed the interest of being future innovators, entrepreneurs,” added Mogasale.

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