Atal Innovation Mission and Sirius (Russia) Launch 'AIM - Sirius Innovation Programme 3.0'

CIOReviewIndia Team | Monday, 09 November 2020, 04:39 IST

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Today, Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) and Sirius, Russia, launched ‘AIM-Sirius Innovation Programme 3.0’. It is a 14-day virtual programme for the Indian and Russian school children.

Also, AIM-Sirius programme is the first Indo-Russian bilateral youth innovation initiative, which would develop technological solutions for both web and mobile for India and Russia.

Started from November 7, AIM-Sirius ends on 21st November 2020, a two week programme, it includes 48 students and 16 educators and mentors for creating 8 virtual products and mobile applications, addressing the global challenges surrounding the areas of culture, distance education, applied cognitive science, health and well-being, sports, fitness, and games training, chemistry, artificial intelligence, and digital financial assets amidst COVID pandemic.

The AIM Mission Director, R Ramanan, said, “It’s a proud moment to share the 2020’s programme fostering collaboration and innovation in science, technology and design projects. Moreover, it is the first virtual bilateral student collaboration between India and Russia, showing the immense commitment by both the Atal Tinker Labs and Sirius teams. At AIM, we are elated to be a part of this journey.”

Leveraging 21st-century technologies, innovations by student teams include app development, artificial intelligence blockchain, machine learning, data analytics, and visualization, UI/UX, virtual reality, augmented reality, gamification, 3D design, and rapid prototyping, and others. AIM and Sirius’ mentors from the industry and academia is set to work closely with the teams.

The head of Talent and Success Foundation and Member of the Presidential Council for Science and Education, Russia, said, “Modern science and international cooperation are correlated, it is impossible to imagine one without the other. Scientists of different language speaking countries discover, standing united, aimed at solving one task. Helping in creation of such opportunities, Sirius’ international labs educate talented students, young scientists, and engineers, who become solver of ambitious challenges surrounding science and society.”

2020’s cohort comprises of the best Russian students from the Sirius Centre and the best Indian students, and ATL in-charges from the top 150 teams of the 2019 ATL Marathon. In the previous year, an Indian delegation of 25 students and 5 teachers visited the Sirius Centre, Russia, for a 7-day research oriented programme. The participating teams created 8 different innovations in the fields of remote earth sensing, biological and genetic research, clean energy, data analytics, and frontier technologies, and drone and robotics, which Russian President Vladimir Putin presented on December 5th, 2019.

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