Young Innovators Programme (YIP) is the flagship project of K-DISC designed to transform the vision of a knowledge society in a way that is suited to our State through the promotion of innovations that bring about equitable and sustainable development of Kerala and provide solutions for real-life problems, and which are socially and economically beneficial to the society at large.

OBJECTIVES

• ● Enhancing identified youth with design thinking, collaborative,creative problem solving and leadership skills.
• ● Empowering and building youth through immersive programmes to Learn, Empathize, Accelerate and Disrupt
• ● Mentoring them and intensifying networking to build a product or develop a process for showcasing in the Young Innovators’ Challenge
• ● Tracking these young innovators and linking them to institutions, industries, enterprises and prospective funding agencies.
• ● Certifying promising innovations and attaching the young innovators to research institutions in related areas with scholarships for 1 year
• ● Build a strong pool of mentors to identify, assess and track innovations as well as provide young innovators the academic, domain specific and psycho-social support necessary through the process