The final round of the 6th Editon of NOVATE + 2024 witnessed 11 project presentations over the course of two-days (October 24 and 25). NOVATE+ is an annual hackathon of Chitkara University that aims at enabling creation of market-ready products through industry-academia collaboration.

Each of these 11 finalists proposed their most innovative solutions to pressing real-world problems, with an objective of winning prototype development funding to realise their ideas and build minimum viable products. The project ideas were from diverse disciplines including Pharmacy, Health Sciences, Bio-Tech, Engineering, etc.

Thanks are due to our jury for evaluating these projects and giving their expert comments and feedback to the applicants. Based on the recommendation of the jury, the results will be announced shortly. The jury comprised of Mr. Harpreet Singh (CEO, Eon Infotech Limited), Mr. Parveen Khosla (MD, Vaani Precision Industries), Prof. (Dr.) P.K. Khosla (PVC, Research, CURIN) and Prof. (Dr.) Vijay Kumar Jadon (Dean, Applied Engineering, Chitkara University, Punjab).

Each winning team will receive prototype development funding of upto 2.25 lacs.

NOVATE+ 2024 has been organized by Chitkara University and Anchored by DST funded NewGen IEDC and Technology Enabling Centre at Chitkara University.