Institution's Innovation Council

About IIC (Institution’s Innovation Council)

In the year 2018, the Ministry of Education (MoE) through MoE’s Innovation Cell (MIC) launched the Institution’s Innovation Council (IIC) program in collaboration with AICTE for Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) to systematically foster the culture of innovation and start-up ecosystem in education institutions. Primarily, IICs’ role is to engage large number of faculty, students and staff in various innovation and entrepreneurship related activities such as ideation, Problem solving, Proof of Concept development, Design Thinking, IPR, project handling and management at Pre-incubation/Incubation stage, etc., so that innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem gets established and stabilized in HEIs. The IIC model is designed to address the existing challenges/issues in HEIs such as less numbers, occasional and unplanned Innovation & Entrepreneurship (I&E) activities organized in HEIs with low involvement of top leadership, lack of coherence and absence of synergy in resource mobilization, deployment and underutilization of creative potential of youths as major barrier for vibrant I&E ecosystem to emerge from HEIs.

IIC model is unique and distinct as it integrates the functionalities of flexibility calendar activities, scoring and reward system, decentralizing operation with division of work, progress monitoring and incentive mechanisms in coordinated manner through a robust digital platform. In last two years, undoubtedly, IIC has emerged as a very sustainable and scalable model for promoting innovation within HEIs and the efforts of these IIC Institutes can be seen as impactful contribution towards making country’s innovation and start-ups ecosystem more vibrant and dynamic. The recent achievement of India’s 48th position in Global Innovation Index (GII) ranking is a reflection of the same.

Major Focus

  • To create a vibrant local innovation ecosystem.
  • Start-up supporting mechanism in HEIs.
  • Prepare institute for Atal Ranking of institutions on innovation achievements framework.
  • Establish function ecosystem for scouting ideas and pre-incubation of ideas.
  • Develop better cognitive ability among students.

Function of IIC

  • To conduct various Innovations, IPR and entrepreneurship-related activities prescribed by MIC in time bound fashion.
  • Identify and reward innovations and share success stories.
  • Organize periodic workshops / seminars / interactions with entrepreneurs, investors, professionals and create a mentor pool for student innovators.
  • Network with peers and national entrepreneurship development organizations.
  • Create an Institution’s Innovation portal to highlight innovative projects carried out by institution’s faculty and students.
  • Organize Hackathons, idea competition, mini-challenges etc. with the involvement of industries.

As per the directions given through the notification from the central and state government, our institute has registered for the IIC and tries to execute the assigned activity in the available recourses.

Institution’s Innovation Council Committee

S N Role Name of Member
E:mail
Contact No.		 Dept. Designation Experience in Yrs
01 Convener Dr. Jagannath V. Gadpayale
gadpayale_jv@yahoo.co.in
8830887895		 Botany Assistant Professor 10
02 Vice President Dr. Komalchand N. Sathawane
komal_1965@rediffmail.com
9421709879		 Botany Professor 27
03 IPR Activity Coordinator Dr. Madhukar F. Jadhao
mfjadhao@gmail.com
9403617061		 Zoology Associate Professor 27
04 Innovation Activity Dr. Pravin A. Dhakite
pravinchemkb@gmail.com
9860787734		 Chemistry Assistant Professor 9
05 Social Media Shri. Amol M. Khandawe
amolkhandwe86@gmail.com
9764810615		 English Assistant Professor 8
06 Internship Activity Coordinator Ku. Arti A. Salwe
aaszoology@gmail.com
9372961146		 Zoology Assistant Professor 10
07 Start up Activity Coordinator Dr. Hitesh A. Kalyani
kalyanihitesh@yahoo.com
9373107777		 Commerce Assistant Professor 9
08 ARIIA Coordinator Dr. Sachin S. Werulkar
sachin.werulkar@yahoo.com
9595161642		 Political Science Assistant Professor 8
09 NIRF Coordinator Dr. Santosh R. Choudhary
santoshc.tkd@gmail.com
8793427650		 Sports Physical Education Director 8
10 Member Shri. Pankaj G. Bawankar
bpankaj76@gmail.com 9421709883		 Chemistry Lab. Attendant 20

Activity Carried Out By IIC

SN Date & Year Name of Activity Link
01 13 Jan., 2023 Competitive Examination Book Exhibition on the occasion of National Youth Day https://snmorcollege.org.in/activities/competitive_exam_book_exhibition_2023.pdf
02 26 May, 2022 National E-Seminar To Celebrate Azadi Ka Amrut Mohotsav on Intellectual Property Rights https://www.snmorcollege.org.in/activities/seminar_IPR_2021-22.pdf