Institution's Innovation Council

1. Resolution for adoption of IIC 6.0 and Key Role/Positions was passed
2. A deliberation on the Quarterly plan for the Academic year 2023-24 was undertaken
3. The Quarterly plan is an given below:-

SR.No.	Quarter	Activities	Responsibility
		Quarter 1-(1st September - 30th November)
1	I	Session/Workshop on "Entrepreneurship and Innovation as Career Opportunity"	Mr Mukul. H. Innovation
2	I	"My Journey from Idea to Startup" Motivational sessions by Successful Entrepreneurs/Alumini startup (Two Sessions)	ED Cell Mr. R.C. Londhe ,Mr. P. K. Parasnis, Mr. S. M. Pawar
3	I	Session on Problem Solving and Ideation Workshop	Ms. M. Jadhav Social Media Co-Ordinator
		Quarter 2-(1st December - 29th February)
4	II	Workshop on Design Thinking, Critical thinking and Innovation Design	ED Cell Mr. R.C. Londhe ,Mr. P. K. Parasnis, Mr. S. M. Pawar
5	II	Workshop on Entrepreneurship Skill, Attitude and Behavior Development	Ms. A. M. Deshpande Startup Co-Ordinator
6	II	Field/Exposure Visit to Pre-incubation units such as Ideas Lab, Fab lab, Makers Space, Design Centers City MSME clusters, workshops etc.	ED Cell Mr. R.C. Londhe ,Mr. P. K. Parasnis, Mr. S. M. Pawar
		Quarter 3-(1st March - 31th May)
7	III	Session/Workshop on Business Model Canvas (BMC)	ED Cell Mr. R.C. Londhe ,Mr. P. K. Parasnis, Mr. S. M. Pawar
8	III	Organize an Inter/Intra Institutional Business Plan Competition and REward Best Innovations - Manage through YUKTI-NIR	ED Cell Mr. R.C. Londhe ,Mr. P. K. Parasnis, Mr. S. M. Pawar
9	III	Field/Exposure Visit to Incubation Unit/Patent Facilitation Center/Technology Transfer Center such as Atal Incubation center etc.	ED Cell Mr. R.C. Londhe ,Mr. P. K. Parasnis, Mr. S. M. Pawar
10	III	Kalam-IPR Awareness Program 24th April 2024-(Prior to World IPR day celebrated on 26th April 2022)	Mr. Amar Chavan IPR Co Ordinator
11	III	Session on "How to plan for Start-up and legal and Ethical Steps"	Mr. Amar Chavan IPR Co Ordinator
12	III	"Pop up Stores	All IIC Members
		Quarter 4-(1st June - 31th August)
13	III	Session on Accelerators/Incubation-Opportunities for Students and Faculties - Early Stage Entrepreneurs	ED Cell Mr. R. C. Londhe ,Mr. P. K. Parasnis, Mr. S. M. Pawar
14	III	Session on Internship in Start up's	Mrs. Ashima Deshpande Internship Co-Ordinator

ABOUT IIC

Ministry of Education (MoE), Govt. of India has established ‘MoE’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 in formative years.

MIC has envisioned encouraging creation of ‘Institution’s Innovation Council (IICs)’ across selected HEIs. A network of these IICs will be established to promote innovation in the Institution through multitudinous modes leading to an innovation promotion eco-system in the campuses. It is our proud privilege to announce that Bharati Vidyapeeth (Deemed to be University) Institute of Hotel Management & Catering Technology , Pune has been selected to establish the council in 2020.

The IIC council of BV(DU)IHMCT, Pune has continued their efforts to establish and inculcate a culture of Innovation and Entrepreneurship among the students and faculty members of the college by bridging the gap by establishing a connection between the real-world Entrepreneurs and Innovators and students at the college.

Council Structure: The council is further subdivided into various cells focusing on the specific area for better coordination and focus on conducting various kinds of events and workshops throughout the year. The cells under the IIC are:

Innovation Cell- Primary responsible for organising and coordinating after Innovation promotion activities and extend support to other activities.

Start-up Cell- Primary responsible for organising and coordinating after Start-up promotion activities and extend support to other activities.

Internship Cell- Primary responsible for organising and coordinating after Internship opportunity and engage student in Start-ups, innovation labs and incubation centre etc. to promote innovation activities and extend support to other activities.

IPR Cell- Primary responsible for organising and coordinating after IPR mentoring, awareness opportunity to promote innovation activities and extend support to other activities.

Social Media Cell- Primary responsible for organising and coordinating after social media promotion and public relation and effectively communicating regarding various activities undertaken to promote innovation activities and extend support to other activities.

Members:

President: Dr. L.S.Chirmulay, Principal, BVDUIHMCT,PUNE

Convenor: Prof Rupesh Chandrasen Londhe Innovation

coordinator: Prof Mukul Hoshing

Start-up coordinator: Prof Swapnil Pawar

Internship coordinator: Prof. Ashima Deshpande

IPR coordinator: Prof.Amar Chavan

Social Media coordinator: Prof. Mrudula Jadhav

NIRF coordinator: Prof .Prajakta Parsnis

Innovation Cell

Name of Cordinator: Prof Mukul Hoshing.

Objective of the Cell:

To nurture and promote Innovation within the Institute.
To develop a culture of Innovation and Research within the students and faculty of the institute.
To provide accessibility and support with the profound innovators and entrepreneurs to help and support the innovators of the campus.
Conduct activities which bridge the knowledge gap of the Interested students and faculty on campus and support them in every possible aspect.
To organise field visits to research parks and incubation centres to promote enthusiasm and inspire the students.
Provide assistance at every possible level to the concerned students and faculty members
To spread awareness and inform the students and faculty about the various schemes of the GoI and MoE for the research work and grants, and help to awail those grants.

Start up cell

Name of Cordinator:Prof Swapnil Pawar

Objective of the Cell:

To nurture entrepreneurial culture at campus.
To develop start up ecosystem by establishing collaboration among academia, Alumni start up founder, financial institutions, industries, and other institutes.
To undertake initiatives to increase access to angel investors, venture capitalists and business incubators.
To provide support to develop technology/service based innovation. To undertake initiatives to increase access to angel investors, venture capitalists and business incubators.

Internship Cell

Name of Coordinator- Prof. Ashima Deshpande

Objective of the Cell:

To develop, coordinate & supervise complex and varied administrative tasks in order to provide exemplary training services to the students.
Internship development and coordination, and employer relations with the aim to facilitate training & placement
To conduct two activities each semester for promoting & creation of various internships across the premises of institute.
Publicity/report making of each event.

IPR cell

Name of Coordinator: Prof Amar Chavan

Bharati Vidyapeeth (Deemed to be University), BVDUIHMCT, Pune has an active IIC council, an initiative by MHRD, Government of India. IPR Cell is establish under the ambit of IIC with a motive to create awareness and provide guidance to students, scholars. To encourage research and innovation, this Cell organizes Webinars, Workshops for the undergraduate, post graduate, Ph.D scholars and faculty members of our institute as well as other institutes, thereby creating and environment to generate new knowledge.

Objectives:

To create awareness among students, research scholars and faculty members about various forms of IPRs.
Creating and environment to generate new knowledge.

IPR cell intends to carry out various activities such as organizing special lectures & seminars, Patent, Drafting, Patent Filing, Prior Art search, IPR Quiz, and celebration of World Intellectual Property Day (26th April).