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    • The NAAC peer team visit for onsite assessment for IV cycle of Accreditation was held on 11 th & 12 th February 2020. Holy Cross College received A++ Grade with 3.75/4.

HCIICT

Introduction

“Creativity is thinking up new things; Innovation is doing new things” - Theodore Levitt

Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Govt. of India has established ‘MHRD’s Innovation Cell (MIC)’ to systematically foster the culture of Innovation amongst all Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). The primary mandate of MIC is to encourage, inspire and nurture young students by supporting them to work with new ideas and transform them into prototypes while they are informative years.

MHRD’s Innovation Cell (Government of India) has envisioned encouraging creation of ‘Institution’s Innovation Council (IICs)’ across selected Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). A network of these IICs is being established to promote innovation in the Institution through multitudinous modes leading to an innovation promotion eco-system in the campuses.

Holy Cross College (Autonomous), Tiruchirappalli has established Institution Innovation Council (IIC) as per the Norms of Innovation Cell, MHRD, Govt. of India on 21stNovember 2018. IIC was launched by Shri Prakash Javadekhar, Honorable HRD Minister on 21stNovember 2018 at AICTE Head Quarters, New Delhi which was organized by MHRD’s Innovation Cell.


Vision & Mission


Establish a vibrant and functional local ecosystem for young women of HCC to scout their ideas for innovation and pre-incubation.

Provide young women entrepreneurs with start-up / entrepreneurship supporting mechanism to transform the new ideas into prototypes and for patenting the innovation.

Envisage a culture of entrepreneurship in the campus for progressing towards a sustainable society.


Objectives


To sow the seeds of entrepreneurship and innovation among faculties, students and the local community; facilitate the transition of entrepreneurs from just ideas to building the commercially viable products/services/technologies; and building a vibrant startup and innovation ecosystem, together with a network of partners.

To: emerge as a gold standard for innovation and incubation in academic institutions; quash stereotypes and prove that women, especially those from outside metropolitan cities, can be wealth creators and leaders; and make innovation an integral part of Tiruchirappalli’s identity.

To: inculcate and nurture an entrepreneurial spirit, problem solving spirit, and out-of-box thinking, within the HCC community; push and challenge entrepreneurs to go beyond and above the realms of ordinary thinking; promote and support grassroots innovation and innovation in the core sciences; lay the stepping stones for a sustainable HCC community, where problems of the community are solved from within; and pioneer the development of Tiruchirappalli, as a world-class innovation hub.