{"id":2554,"date":"2020-04-07T13:08:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T07:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.classiciasacademy.com\/blog\/?p=2554"},"modified":"2020-04-07T13:08:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T07:38:19","slug":"challenge-covid-19-competition-c3-by-nif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.classiciasacademy.com\/blog\/challenge-covid-19-competition-c3-by-nif\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenge COVID-19 Competition (C3) by NIF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In News<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Amid the crisis being created by the Coronavirus pandemic, the <strong>National\nInnovation Foundation (NIF) <\/strong>is organising <strong>Challenge Covid-19 Competition\n(C3)<\/strong> to fight against the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In-Detail <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>NIF is organising the competition to fight the\ncoronavirus pandemic through innovative solutions.<\/li><li>The competition invites innovative citizens to\ngenerate creative ideas and innovations in reducing the transmission of\ncoronavirus which can supplement the efforts of the government. <\/li><li>Innovations should make activities like hand\nwashing, sanitising home items, body and public places interesting. <\/li><li>Also, the participants can provide innovative\nideas on supply chain management and distribution of essential items especially\nto elderly, people with special needs, mentally challenged and\ndifferently-abled.<\/li><li>Ideas on entertaining people in their homes,\nnutrition for healthy body, PPEs, expanding diagnostic testing facilities,\nideas on contactless devices for corona-implementation, etc., can be suggested.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About NIF<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>The National Innovation Foundation (NIF) was\nset up in 2000 and is an autonomous body of DST. <\/strong><\/li><li>The aim of the Foundation is to <strong>scout,\nsustain, spawn and scale up grassroots innovation across the country. <\/strong><\/li><li>NIF is head-quartered at <strong>Ahmedabad, Gujarat.<\/strong><\/li><li>It biennially conducts a competition for\ngrassroots green technologies where farmers, artisans, mechanics and others\nshowcase their own original ideas developed without any help of professionals.<\/li><li>The NIF validates novelty these innovations with\nthe help of experts by conduction Prior Art Search (PAS).<\/li><li>If the innovation is novel, the NIF files patent\nin the name of the innovator.<\/li><li>Further, the NIF supports value-addition so that\nthe innovation can become useful for large number of people. <\/li><li>IGNITE competition, which was renamed as Dr. APJ\nAbdul Kalam IGNITE competition is also conducted by NIF in partnership with the\nCentral Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). <\/li><li>The foundation has also the mandate of\nregistering ideas, innovations and traditional knowledge (TK) practices related\nto agriculture, plants, animal health and human health.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>In News Amid the crisis being created by the Coronavirus pandemic, the National Innovation Foundation (NIF) is organising Challenge Covid-19 Competition (C3) to fight against <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.classiciasacademy.com\/blog\/challenge-covid-19-competition-c3-by-nif\/\" title=\"Challenge COVID-19 Competition (C3) by NIF\">    [read more]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - 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