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2nd Edition of Water Innovation Challenges

  • 15 Dec 2021

On 13th December, 2021, Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog and the Royal Embassy of Denmark to India announced the second edition of water innovation challenges to address the global water woes through innovations as part of the Indo-Danish Bilateral Green Strategic partnership.

About Water Innovation Challenge

  • Water Innovation Challenge aims to identify innovative & next-gen solutions to solve proposed challenges in collaboration with corporate and public partners.
  • The challenge is being conducted under the partnership of AIM, NITI Aayog and Innovation Center Denmark (ICDK) under the aegis of the Denmark Embassy in India and the Denmark Technical University (DTU).
  • The initiative will engage young talents from leading universities across the nation and support them in building their skills and applying their technical disciplines and innovation capacity.
  • The challenge winners will get the opportunity to represent India at the International Water Congress 2022.

Significance

  • This will aid in catalysing global cross-sectorial learning environments, innovation & impact on SDGs.