Sri Sri University won “4 Star Ranking” by Institution’s Innovation Council
Cuttack: Sri Sri University (SSU) has been promoting innovation and entrepreneurship from its inception. SSU Innovation Foundation, the incubation centre of SSU, provides dedicated mentoring and handholding support such as; Idea validation, Product development, IPR, Legal entity registration, investor readiness, seed funding and investor linkage to the budding student and alumni entrepreneurs. The incubation centre is recognized by Start-up Odisha and DC-MSME. The spirit of job creation has been imbibed with many students and alumni. SSU has nurtured 89 start-ups in the areas of agriculture, food processing, eco-tourism, renewable energy, edtech, fitness and healthcare. World’s first Moringa leaf-based tea company, India’s 1st Jaggery cube manufacturing start-up have been started by the alumni of SSU. Unique products like vacuum fried chips, plant-based protein, ready to cook vegetables, multipurpose low-cost agriculture equipment, solar operated farm machineries have been developed by our incubated start-ups. SSU incubated start-ups are also adding value in promotion of healthy food through organic farming, contributing towards the Fit India movement, promoting renewable energy, precision farming and climate resilient agriculture.
Sri Sri University has won “4 Star Ranking” by Institution’s Innovation Council (IIC, An Initiative of Ministry of Education, Govt. of India) for its annual performance for the year 2021-22, for promotion of Innovation and Start-up Culture. Though minimum number of prescribed activities for innovation promotion was 146, but SSU has conducted 334, out of which 325 were approved by IIC. The rank has been upgraded from 2 Star in 2020-2021 to 4 Star this year. Prof. (Dr.) B. R. Sharma, Vice Chancellor, Sri Sri University appreciated the efforts of the team and encouraged students to be job creators. Inspired by Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Ji’s vision, SSU is committed towards job creation in the post pandemic world.