Souvenir of One Week One Lab - CSIR-NML

Abstract

Hon’ble Minister of Science and Technology and earth Sciences, Dr. Jitendra Singh highlighted that every 37 CSIR laboratory is unique and their focus in the diverse areas including minerals to materials, genome to geology, food to fuel, and many more. To showcase and publicize such diversity in the CSIR’s technological breakthroughs and innovations across society, Hon’ble Minister announced “One Week One Lab (OWOL)" campaign nationwide to showcase the in the CSIR labs. In order to fulfil the objectives of the OWOL campaign, CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur, India is participating to demonstrate its technologies, innovations, and undergoing and futuristic ideas for the benefit of the society. The CSIR-NML OWOL is comprises of the various activities including displaying of existing technologies and futuristic ideas, Shilpakar Mela, workshops on (1) rare earth materials, (2) materials challenges in unlocking the hydrogen era, Jigyasa program for students-scientists interactions, academic-industry-entrepreneur-scientist meet to bridge the gap between them so that the hands can be joined to work collaboratively. The purpose of the CSIR-NML OWOL event is to identify the needs of regions, industry – develop and provide desired scientific solutions, to develop collaboration with states and industry for deployment and commercialization, to identify the potential industry for the co-development of next-gen technologies & products, to create networks of government-academia-industry for faster delivery and deployment, to motivate youngsters and budding entrepreneurs to create start-ups and many more.