ACIC Community Innovator Fellowship
Funds community innovators in India with a fellowship path for startup experimentation via ACIC incubation support.
The ACIC Community Innovator Fellowship is a rolling fellowship programme administered by Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog, Government of India, in collaboration with UNDP India, designed to support individual community innovators working within or alongside operationalised Atal Community Innovation Centres (ACICs). ACICs are AIM-established innovation infrastructure nodes located in unde…
Community-level innovation in underserved regions of India.
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