The University of Delhi started Cluster Innovation Centre (CIC) in 2011 with an aim to launch innovation programmes that could enhance creative potential of students, have innovative curriculum, are more project oriented and tailored to the need of society and industry. It was envisaged that such programmes would enable students to relate themselves to the real world problems in all spheres and look for innovative solution for the problems. The Centre had thus been designed to seek and drive innovations from industrial clusters, village clusters, slum clusters and educational clusters. CIC had also pioneered the concept of a Meta College as well as a Meta University. A student enrolled in these two courses not only acrues credits from courses at CIC but also from the constituent colleges of University of Delhi and Jamia Millia Islamia respectively. The courses at Cluster Innovation Centre (CIC) are aimed at • Connecting research with application for the benefit of society. • Supporting application oriented research to solve real world problems. • Focusing on developing affordable innovations that can benefit a large number of people and at the same time commercially viable and sustainable. • Encourage a culture of entrepreneurship for the University of Delhi as a whole
