ATAL COMMUNITY INNOVATION CENTER

National Ideathon for Sustainable & Grassroots Innovation

ACIC-CBIT successfully organized Thinkathon 2025 – National Ideathon for Sustainable & Grassroots Innovation, a platform designed to identify, nurture, and accelerate innovative ideas addressing real-world community....

Institutional
Outreach

Between the two outreach drives covered in this report, Team ACIC-CBIT engaged three Government ITI campuses in and around Hyderabad, namely ITI Khairatabad, ITI Sanathnagar, and the Advanced Training....

Liftoff Accelerator
Program

ACIC-CBIT, in collaboration with the Wadhwani Foundation, offers the Liftoff Accelerator — a milestone-driven program to help early-stage startups achieve investor readiness, at absolutely no cost....

Student Innovation
Program

The Student Innovation Program (SIP) at ACIC-CBIT, supported by the Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog, Govt....

Grassroots Innovation Program (GRIP)

GRIP is a transformative 4-month initiative dedicated to nurturing innovation and entrepreneurship among rural youth....

Community Innovator Fellowship Program (CIF)

Partnering with Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog, and UNDP India, ACIC-CBIT hosts a year-long intensive fellowship for aspiring community innovators....

Capacity Building Program — ITI Patancheru

ACIC-CBIT, in collaboration with Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog, conducted a 3-day Capacity Building Program at ITI Patancheru — empowering 50+ trainees with Innovation Mindset, Design Thinking & Entrepreneurship Readiness....

Summer Innovation Boot Camp 2026

ACIC-CBIT's flagship school programme — 60 students, 10 teams, 12 modules, 11 working days. Cohort I took the full Idea → Prototype → Pitch arc with Robotics, Drones, 3D Printing, AI, and AR/VR, under Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog....

Programs