E-YUVA (Empowering Youth for Undertaking Value Added Innovative Translational Research)
A BIRAC, GOI initiative to Ignite Young Minds to Innovate
E-YUVA centre in Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) is supported by Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), a GOI enterprise. It started functioning in the year 2014 in the name “University Innovation Cluster”.TNAU is one of the five prestigious institutions in the country initially selected for such activity for the first time in the history. In the year 2021 BIRAC upgraded the university innovation cluster into E-YUVA centre.
The mandate of E-YUVA is to reach out to young students and fresh graduates to validate their ideas and take them to Proof-of-Concept in collaboration with industry.
If India has to innovate, young researchers have to be nurtured and provided with all the key components of an innovation ecosystem. It is important that they should be given a right platform where their innovation research is completely de-risked and they are mentored not only on technical issues but also on enterprise creation, technology commercialization, intellectual property (IP) protection, regulatory and ethical affairs, marketing strategies, etc.,
E-YUVA programme is aimed to handhold the aspiring young entrepreneurs and budding student innovators, help to mobilize resources and connect them to various networks in order to understand what it takes to move the research forward and create an entrepreneur, transforming ‘job seeker’ to ‘job provider’. E-YUVA centre provides this ecosystem.