Challenge COVID-19 Competition (C3) by NIF

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Amid the crisis being created by the Coronavirus pandemic, the National Innovation Foundation (NIF) is organising Challenge Covid-19 Competition (C3) to fight against the virus.

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NIF is organising the competition to fight the coronavirus pandemic through innovative solutions.
The competition invites innovative citizens to generate creative ideas and innovations in reducing the transmission of coronavirus which can supplement the efforts of the government.
Innovations should make activities like hand washing, sanitising home items, body and public places interesting.
Also, the participants can provide innovative ideas on supply chain management and distribution of essential items especially to elderly, people with special needs, mentally challenged and differently-abled.
Ideas on entertaining people in their homes, nutrition for healthy body, PPEs, expanding diagnostic testing facilities, ideas on contactless devices for corona-implementation, etc., can be suggested.

About NIF

The National Innovation Foundation (NIF) was set up in 2000 and is an autonomous body of DST.
The aim of the Foundation is to scout, sustain, spawn and scale up grassroots innovation across the country.
NIF is head-quartered at Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
It biennially conducts a competition for grassroots green technologies where farmers, artisans, mechanics and others showcase their own original ideas developed without any help of professionals.
The NIF validates novelty these innovations with the help of experts by conduction Prior Art Search (PAS).
If the innovation is novel, the NIF files patent in the name of the innovator.
Further, the NIF supports value-addition so that the innovation can become useful for large number of people.
IGNITE competition, which was renamed as Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam IGNITE competition is also conducted by NIF in partnership with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).
The foundation has also the mandate of registering ideas, innovations and traditional knowledge (TK) practices related to agriculture, plants, animal health and human health.