{"id":55,"date":"2021-06-23T08:39:45","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T08:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.venturecenter.co.in\/csr\/cummins\/?page_id=55"},"modified":"2021-06-29T07:01:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T07:01:41","slug":"program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.venturecenter.co.in\/csr\/cummins\/program\/","title":{"rendered":"Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<h4 class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #062e7d;\"><strong>Cummins &#8211; Venture Center Collaboration on Technology Incubation and Entrepreneurship Promotion<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"\">Cummins India Foundation \u2013 Venture Center CSR Collaboration aims to support entrepreneurs \/ start ups working on technologies with potential social impact.<\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"\">Under its Corporate Social Responsibility activities Cummins India Foundation has provided funding for implementing technologies with potential social impact relating to energy &amp; environment&nbsp;at Venture Centre. This collaboration was launched in F.Y. 2021-2022.<\/h5>\n<h5>&nbsp;<\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"\"><strong>Objective:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul class=\"\">\n<li>\n<h5>To support technology incubation and technology entrepreneurs associated with Venture Center, an incubator approved by the Central Government (DST-NSTEDB and DBT \u2013 BIRAC of Ministry of Science and Technology).<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>Promote application of modern\/advanced technologies to socio-economic problem solving<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5 class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"\"><strong>Scope<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"\">Cummins CSR Grant will enable an entrepreneur \/ startup to do field testing \/ conducting pilot studies and adoption of appropriate technologies to address social needs.<\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"\">Without limiting scope unduly, the projects and technology entrepreneurs chosen shall be:<\/h5>\n<ul class=\"\">\n<li>\n<h5>Focused on a leveraging science and technology\/ inventions<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>Focused on building a sustainable and scalable entrepreneurial venture<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>Theme of Energy &amp; Environment ( eg : energy efficiency, renewable energy, air pollution, provisions for drinking water, waste management etc.)<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>&nbsp;<\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"\">There shall be no restriction on the background of the entrepreneur. However, preference may be given to:<\/h5>\n<ul class=\"\">\n<li>\n<h5>Women entrepreneurs<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>Startups with validated technology addressing problems related to Energy and Environment<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>Social enterprises<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>Any other criteria suggested by the Project Oversight Committee (POC)<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5 class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"\"><strong>Monitoring and reporting<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul class=\"\">\n<li>\n<h5>Venture Center shall constitute a Program Oversight Committee (POC) for selection of grantees and to oversee the implemenation of the project.<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>The scope and extent of support to the grantee shall be decided on a case-to-case basis by POC<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>The&nbsp; Project Leader shall periodically review projects and report the progress to the POC<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cummins &#8211; Venture Center Collaboration on Technology Incubation and Entrepreneurship Promotion &nbsp; Cummins India Foundation \u2013 Venture Center CSR Collaboration aims to support entrepreneurs \/ start ups working on technologies<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn button-secondary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.venturecenter.co.in\/csr\/cummins\/program\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","crio-premium-page-header-override":null,"crio-premium-page-header-select":"none","crio-premium-page-header-background":"","footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.venturecenter.co.in\/csr\/cummins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.venturecenter.co.in\/csr\/cummins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.venturecenter.co.in\/csr\/cummins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.venturecenter.co.in\/csr\/cummins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.venturecenter.co.in\/csr\/cummins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.venturecenter.co.in\/csr\/cummins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/www.venturecenter.co.in\/csr\/cummins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.venturecenter.co.in\/csr\/cummins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}