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2026
March 17, 2026
LatestCisco thingQbator Neovation: Final National Level Pitching Event | Five Lakh Grant
+3 photosThe best ten teams across the country from thousands of applicants go through a year-long cohort program. The best teams progress through ideation, prototyping and startup stages, and the best 10 teams are further supported by Cisco and Nasscom Foundation with a five lakh seed grant to start their entrepreneurial journey. The team from Digital University was awarded the funding at the Neovation event at the India Habitat Center, New Delhi, in the presence of Shri Harish Krishnan, Managing Director, Cisco India & ASEAN, Smt Jyoti Sharma, CEO of Nasscom Foundation, and other eminent guests.
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March 17, 2026Innovation Team from DUK: Visit to AICTE Headquarters, Delhi+1 photo
March 2026Recognition of Digital University’s Efforts in Creating an Innovation Ecosystem by MoE
February 28, 2026Cisco thingQbator Cohort 9 Launch
February 20, 2026Foundation Day Workshop for School Students from KVs around Trivandrum
February 20, 2026Honorable Vice Chancellor’s Interaction with School Students
January 2026AI Pre-Summit Workshop on Safe & Trusted AI+3 photos
2026Cisco thingQbator: Celebration at Digital University for the National Level Winning Team
2026–27Innovation Club Core Team 2026–27
March 17, 2026
LatestCisco thingQbator Neovation: Final National Level Pitching Event | Five Lakh Grant
+3 photosThe best ten teams across the country from thousands of applicants go through a year-long cohort program. The best teams progress through ideation, prototyping and startup stages, and the best 10 teams are further supported by Cisco and Nasscom Foundation with a five lakh seed grant to start their entrepreneurial journey. The team from Digital University was awarded the funding at the Neovation event at the India Habitat Center, New Delhi, in the presence of Shri Harish Krishnan, Managing Director, Cisco India & ASEAN, Smt Jyoti Sharma, CEO of Nasscom Foundation, and other eminent guests.
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Recognition of Digital University’s Efforts in Creating an Innovation Ecosystem by MoE
Recognizing the transformative efforts made by Digital University in the nearby regions, we have been invited to share the best practices we follow at the regional meet at Kochi. We were also invited to the AICTE headquarters for an interview with the Innovation Officer of the south west region, Shri. Abhishek Ranjan, to disseminate the best practices Digital University follows in the national media.
Read more →February 20, 2026
Foundation Day Workshop for School Students from KVs around Trivandrum
A workshop for school students from Kendriya Vidyalayas around Trivandrum, held at Digital University on its Foundation Day, as part of the Innovation Club’s mentoring of schools in the nearby region.
Read more →January 2026
AI Pre-Summit Workshop on Safe & Trusted AI
+3 photosWorkshop on Safe and Trusted AI conducted for school students as part of India AI Impact Summit 2026 pre-summit activities, promoting responsible AI awareness.
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Innovation Club Core Team 2026–27
Meet the Innovation Club core committee for 2026–27, the student team carrying the club forward this year.
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March 17, 2026
Innovation Team from DUK: Visit to AICTE Headquarters, Delhi
+1 photoMeeting with Shri. Yogesh Bramhankar and Shri Abhishek Ranjan, Innovation Officer, MoE, GoI at the AICTE Headquarters in Delhi.
Read more →February 28, 2026
Cisco thingQbator Cohort 9 Launch
Students with innovative ideas are supported through a national level cohort program where the nationally selected teams receive mentoring and technical support for prototyping, validating and refining their innovative ideas.
Read more →February 20, 2026
Honorable Vice Chancellor’s Interaction with School Students
The Honorable Vice Chancellor interacting with the visiting school students at Digital University, as part of the Innovation Club’s mentoring of schools in the nearby region.
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Cisco thingQbator: Celebration at Digital University for the National Level Winning Team
Digital University celebrates the thingQbator team that won at the national level Neovation pitching event.
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2025
December 9, 2025Smart India Hackathon 2025: Two Teams from DUK at the National Level+5 photos
November 20, 2025AICTE & MIC Regional IIC Meet, Kochi 2025+3 photos
November 20, 2025IIC Best Poster Award for DUK
September 17, 2025Innovation Mela: Sponsored by Nasscom Foundation, thingQbator
September 10, 2025JustBuild’25+1 photo
May 2025Mentoring Sessions at thingQbator by Nasscom Foundation
April 7–11, 2025AICTE–MIC Faculty Development Programme on Innovation & Entrepreneurship+19 photos
January 20254-Star Rating in the National Level Innovation Ranking by MoE’s AICTE & MIC
2025DUKInnoFest’25
2025MoE’s Viksit Bharat Buildathon Mentoring (VBB 2025)
2025The Mentoring Team at KV Pallipuram
2025–26Innovation Club Core Team 2025–26
2025IIC Ranking Celebration @ Digital University with Shri Abhishek Ranjan
November 20, 2025
AICTE & MIC Regional IIC Meet, Kochi 2025
+3 photosThe annual meeting of IICs in the south region, showcasing the innovation journey of highly performing IICs. With the Assistant Innovation Director of MoE, GoI, Dr. Dipan Sahu, at the poster presentation at the IIC Regional Meet in the previous year.
Read more →September 17, 2025
Innovation Mela: Sponsored by Nasscom Foundation, thingQbator
A fully funded two-day regional innovation promotion program for the south region, as part of the thingQbator engagement with NASSCOM Foundation. The program consisted of idea pitching and mentoring sessions, followed by a technical quiz and a workshop on AI conducted by Cisco experts.
Read more →May 2025
Mentoring Sessions at thingQbator by Nasscom Foundation
As part of the thingQbator engagement, Nasscom Foundation conducts workshops and mentoring sessions for the students. This is a glimpse from one of the sessions conducted at the thingQbator maker space on our campus.
Read more →January 2025
4-Star Rating in the National Level Innovation Ranking by MoE’s AICTE & MIC
Digital University has secured a 4-star rating in the national level ranking of Institution’s Innovation Councils (IIC) conducted by the Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell for fostering innovation and entrepreneurship, in the very second year of establishing its Institution’s Innovation Council. We are proud to join the elite group of 24 out of 839 institutions in the south west zone to reach this milestone. Only 205 institutions across the country have achieved this feat among the 5455 actively participating institutions from around 15,500+ IICs in India.
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MoE’s Viksit Bharat Buildathon Mentoring (VBB 2025)
Mentoring students of PM SHRI Kendriya Vidyalaya CRPF Pallipuram for the Ministry of Education’s Viksit Bharat Buildathon 2025.
Read more →2025–26
Innovation Club Core Team 2025–26
Meet the Innovation Club core members for 2025–26: the student team that led the club's programmes, the Cisco thingQbator and IEDC activities, IGNITE and YIP, and the outreach to schools.
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December 9, 2025
Smart India Hackathon 2025: Two Teams from DUK at the National Level
+5 photosTwo teams from DUK got selected to participate in the prestigious national level Smart India Hackathon. **Team 1: Nexacore.** Selected to attend the SIH2025 national level at KIT College of Engineering, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, addressing a problem statement from the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. **Team 2: BlueDepth.** Selected to attend the SIH2025 national level at Bangalore, addressing a problem statement from DRDO.
Read more →November 20, 2025
IIC Best Poster Award for DUK
The Digital University team receiving the best poster award from Mr Abhishek Ranjan, Innovation Officer, MoE, GoI during the IIC Regional Meet. The best five posters were awarded from more than 100 institutions participating in the poster presentation, showcasing the innovation journey of their institution in the previous year.
Read more →September 10, 2025
JustBuild’25
+1 photoThe demo day of JustBuild’25: a fun-filled innovation program for the newly joined students to start tinkering on innovative ideas.
Read more →April 7–11, 2025
AICTE–MIC Faculty Development Programme on Innovation & Entrepreneurship
+19 photosWe had the incredible opportunity to host a five-day Faculty Development Programme on Innovation & Entrepreneurship, organized by the Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell and AICTE from 7th to 11th April 2025. This was granted to only 50 institutions across the country from more than two thousand applicants. The event focused on mentoring faculties and incubation managers from HEIs to foster innovation and entrepreneurship in their campuses. The FDP was enriched by the knowledge and experience shared by experts from both industry and academia, clubbed with practical simulations and hands-on workshops. In addition to the participants from engineering and technical backgrounds, the program had very vibrant participants, passionate about innovation, from schools of medicine, nursing, pharmacy and arts and science colleges, making it a perfect platform to learn and understand the challenges and opportunities in each of their domains.
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DUKInnoFest’25
More than three hundred students participated in DUKInnoFest’25 and in the Smart India Internal Hackathon conducted by the Innovation Club and IIC.
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The Mentoring Team at KV Pallipuram
The Digital University mentoring team at PM SHRI Kendriya Vidyalaya CRPF Pallipuram for the Viksit Bharat Buildathon.
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IIC Ranking Celebration @ Digital University with Shri Abhishek Ranjan
To add to our delight, we were honored with the presence of Shri Abhishek Ranjan, Innovation Officer, MoE’s Innovation Cell, who joined us on the DUK campus to celebrate this very special occasion.
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2024
December 11, 2024IoT Workshop for KV Pallipuram @ Digital University Campus
November 27, 2024Hardware Workshop for ATL Students at PM SHRI KV Pallipuram
November 2024Inauguration of IGCU Across Kerala by Eminent Personalities
May 2024IGCU: First Indigenously Produced Electronic Hardware Product from DUK
December 11, 2024
IoT Workshop for KV Pallipuram @ Digital University Campus
An IoT workshop on the Digital University campus for students of Kendriya Vidyalaya Pallipuram, as part of the Innovation Club’s mentoring of school students from the nearby region.
Read more →November 2024
Inauguration of IGCU Across Kerala by Eminent Personalities
Inauguration of IGCU by the then Minister of Sports Shri. V. Abdurahiman at Govt. New LPS Kallimel; the Minister for Higher Education and Social Justice of Kerala, Prof. R Bindu, at Govt. LPS Nadavaramba; the Minister for Public Works and Tourism, Shri P. A. Mohammed Riyas, at GMLPS Karuvanthuruthi; MLA Shri. Adv. K. Premkumar at Govt. LPS Elambulassery; MLA Shri. K N Unnikrishnan at Govt. LPS Palliport; MLA Shri. C. H. Kunhambu at GLPS Periya; and MLA Shri. I.C. Balakrishnan at GLPS Andoor.
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November 27, 2024
Hardware Workshop for ATL Students at PM SHRI KV Pallipuram
A hardware workshop for students at Kendriya Vidyalaya Pallipuram, as part of the Innovation Club’s mentoring of school students from the nearby region.
Read more →May 2024
IGCU: First Indigenously Produced Electronic Hardware Product from DUK
The Integrated Gaming and Control Unit (IGCU) was conceived at the thingQbator facility with the dedicated efforts of a team of students, Mr. Adithya Vishnu and Mr. Alfas Hakeem, led by Mr. Sarath SM, Innovation Officer, and Mr. Lal Prakash, Senior Software Developer of DUK. This is the first electronic hardware product to be indigenously developed and successfully commercialized from Digital University. IGCU is an integrated digital solution which assesses the performance of school kids undergoing training in various sports and games. It is deployed in 55 schools across the state as a pilot project. The project is mentored by Prof. Asharaf S, Dean Academic, and Prof. Manoj Kumar T K, Dean Research of Digital University. As part of this, digitised versions of basketball, football, hockey and other group games are being developed. They work in tandem to assess the performance of the kids.
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2023
2022
November–December 2022Selection for Google Startup Bootcamp
August 26, 2022Smart India Hackathon 2022: National Level Winners+1 photo
May 27, 2022Innovation Ecosystem Visit: Integrated Startup Complex, Kochi
March 26, 2022DUKInnoFest’22
March 26, 2022Establishment of Innovation Club – DUK
2022–23Innovation Club Core Team 2022–23: The Founding Team
November–December 2022
Selection for Google Startup Bootcamp
A team from Digital University was selected to attend the startup bootcamp at Google’s office, Bangalore.
Read more →May 27, 2022
Innovation Ecosystem Visit: Integrated Startup Complex, Kochi
The Innovation Club keeps organizing innovation ecosystem visits to give aspiring students exposure to what happens in incubators, makerspaces, industries and more.
Read more →March 26, 2022
Establishment of Innovation Club – DUK
Inaugurated during the first DUKInnoFest, in the very first year of establishment of DUK. Inspired by the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship, the Innovation Club DUK was formed to support the students’ creativity and innovation. The Institution’s Innovation Council (IIC) established on the campus empowers the activities of the club, providing it with the right vision and direction. The club supports students’ innovation through various innovation support programs such as Cisco’s thingQbator Cohort program, the Young Innovators Program (YIP) designed by KDISC, Darsana’s IGNITE program, etc. The students get the opportunity to tinker with their ideas and validate them with the support of the thingQbator maker space established on the campus by Cisco. Promising ideas are further supported with the help of the incubators established by DUK to bloom and flourish as a startup. All the activities of the club are managed by a dynamic team of students. To further connect the students to other campuses in the state, an IEDC is also established on the campus, which is also led by the Innovation Club student leads. A core tech team is also formed by the students of the Innovation Club, which works on social innovation and product development activities. This in turn creates opportunities for other students to work on real-time projects and earn through the Earn While You Learn (EWYL) scheme implemented on the campus.
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August 26, 2022
Smart India Hackathon 2022: National Level Winners
+1 photoThree teams from DUK got shortlisted for the national level Smart India Hackathon and represented our university at the hackathons held in three different locations: Gunupur, Jaipur and Hyderabad. The team which worked on a problem statement from AICTE became a national level winner.
Read more →March 26, 2022
DUKInnoFest’22
DUKInnoFest is the annual flagship innovation event of DUK. We organize two days of internal hackathon as part of the Smart India Hackathon (SIH) to select the best teams from the campus and nominate them for the national level competition.
Read more →2022–23
Innovation Club Core Team 2022–23: The Founding Team
The founding core team of the Innovation Club, which laid the foundation for the student engagements.
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More events
AI Workshop for SSM School
Workshop for Students from Pullampara Panchayat (Five Schools)
Mentoring Session for KV Pattom Students
Visit to KV Pallipuram by Shri. Abhishek Ranjan, Innovation Officer, Ministry of Education+1 photo
AI Workshop for SSM School
An AI workshop at Digital University for students of SSM School, as part of the Innovation Club’s mentoring of school students from the nearby region.
Read more →Mentoring Session for KV Pattom Students
A mentoring session at Digital University for students of Kendriya Vidyalaya Pattom, as part of the Innovation Club’s mentoring of school students from the nearby region.
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Workshop for Students from Pullampara Panchayat (Five Schools)
A workshop at Digital University for students from five schools in Pullampara Panchayat, as part of the Innovation Club’s mentoring of school students from the nearby region.
Read more →Visit to KV Pallipuram by Shri. Abhishek Ranjan, Innovation Officer, Ministry of Education
+1 photoShri. Abhishek Ranjan, Innovation Officer, Ministry of Education, visited Kendriya Vidyalaya Pallipuram, one of the schools DUK is mentoring.
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