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Our Vision

To ignite a transformation in engineering education, empowering India's brightest young minds to engineer a future of boundless innovation and positive global impact.

 

From classrooms to creation—shaping the engineers of the future

A nodal resource for Indian engineering colleges—we equip them with tools, funding, and know-how - to nurture future-ready engineers, makers who can fuel Industry 4.0, and innovators who will shape India’s tomorrow.

 
 

Scaling Impact

By 2030, we aim to expand to 100 engineering colleges across India—bringing industry and project-based learning to 10% of the nation’s graduating engineers every year.

 

Why Get Involved?

You care about the future of Indian engineering and know that India’s leadership in technology and innovation isn’t just imagined—it’s built, one engineer, one idea, one lab at a time.

Our Work

We work with higher education institutions in India to build cutting-edge maker spaces within Indian universities, deliver immersive project-based learning experiences, and facilitate industry collaborations to cultivate the next generation of engineers who can translate ideas into tangible innovative solutions for real-world challenges.

Programs

Tinkerers’ Lab

Our flagship, student-led, 24/7, open-access makerspaces—designed to spark creativity, collaboration, and hands-on innovation. Here, students are empowered to build, lead, and transform bold ideas into real-world solutions.

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Invention Factory

InventX

Formerly known as Invention Factory, InventX is a high-impact summer program that challenges undergraduate students to design, prototype, pitch, and develop patentable solutions to real-world problems—all within six weeks.

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Vishwakarma Awards

Vishwakarma Award, © Maker Bhavan Foundation, is a nationwide thematic challenge on sustainability to inspire talented student teams across India to build innovative, deployable prototypes rapidly and with impact.

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LEAP

LEAP (Learn Engineering through Activity Program)

LEAP’s hands-on curriculum empowers undergraduate students to tackle real-world societal challenges—designing and delivering working prototypes under cost and time constraints.

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Collaborative Classrooms

Collaborative Classrooms & Project Based Courses

Disrupting traditional divisions between classrooms and lab spaces, collaborative classrooms enable colleges to switch to Outcome-Based Engineering Education (OBE) by integrating active learning directly into the curriculum and improving learning outcomes for students.

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CES

Center for Essential Skills

The Center for Essential Skills, © Maker Bhavan Foundation, offers ten world-class courses on essential cognitive and soft skills to colleges free of cost—helping prepare students for a seamless transition from classrooms to careers.

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Events

Upcoming Challenge

Vishwakarma Awards 2025

Vishwakarma Award is a thematic challenge to encourage talented student teams to build innovative, deployable prototypes rapidly and with impact. The award incentivises talented student innovators and tinkerers interested in developing scalable technological solutions that tackle real-world problems that affect the nation and the world.

Applications open August 4th.

Upcoming Challenge

Global Sustainability Challenge 2025

Global Sustainability Challenge (GSC) is an annual, academic-year-long competition aimed at fostering youth agency and commitment towards sustainability. Multidisciplinary teams of undergraduate and graduate students worldwide research, design, build, and test impactful solutions that create a more sustainable future – for their communities and the world at large.

Applications open August end.

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Indian Academic Makerspaces Summit 2025

The Indian Academic Makerspaces Summit (IAM 2025) is a premier platform dedicated to celebrating and advancing makerspaces in higher education. Bringing together educators, innovators, and students, the summit fosters collaboration, shares best practices, and showcases groundbreaking student innovations in engineering and design. IAM 2025 will take place from September 26-28, 2025, at IIT Gandhinagar.

Apply Now: https://events.iitgn.ac.in/2025/iams/

Our Partners

We work in an open network partnership model working with future focused academic institutions, businesses, nonprofits, patrons and other stakeholders in an inclusive collaborative framework that allows quick scaling of our mission.   

Our Partners

Our Patrons

Our patrons are the driving force behind our mission, providing the financial support and resources that fuel transformative change. Their generosity enables us to expand our initiatives, open new doors for students, and build a more skilled and future-ready workforce.  

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“I don't know of many institutes in engineering in this country that teaches people how to make a product. And when Hemant picked up this whole idea of Maker Bhavan, I was thrilled. I said, somewhere something is happening. We now need to make products in India in all our engineering schools. I think Maker Bhavan has to be part of every engineering institute in this country. That's probably the answer”

Ajai ChowdhryCo-Founder HCLTech
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“I remember that one of the projects I built in Tinkerers' Lab was a Mars rover which tested cyanobacteria on microscopic images, soil sampling, etc. I am very glad that eventually,
this knowledge inspired me to build something that is deep tech, and actually
impacts society and industry. Eventually, I established my own start-up, Tvarit. I am in
Germany now, working with Daimlers and BMWs of the world. We have 70+ experts,
impacted 55+ plants and 3 R&D houses in IITB, TU Darmstadt, Stanford University”

Rahul PrajapatFounder, Tvarit GmbH
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“It's been truly a pleasure to work with the outstanding students at IIT over the past few summers. We were impressed by the students' excellent knowledge base, energy, and passion to help people through their chosen profession of engineering. The students' willingness to work intensively on their inventions caused us to redouble our commitment to mentor them and drive them to produce their best work. We like to think that a program in inventing and patenting is valuable to and appreciated by the school's students particularly given that IITGN prides itself on its modern and innovative engineering curriculum. During our two summers in India, we felt welcomed and supported by the IITGN community, including the students, faculty and staff. We are looking forward to the programme running again at IIT Gandhinagar and IIT Bombay in the summer of 2021.”

Alan Wolf and Eric LimaFounders, Invention Factory Programme, Cooper Union College, USA
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“I am delighted to be associated with Maker Bhavan Foundation (MBF), a visionary organisation re-making education to transform India's academic ecosystem. MBF has built a network of makerspaces in engineering colleges—spaces where students learn by doing, tinkering, and building. These are not just physical spaces, but places where students experiment, design, and solve real-world problems. With rapid prototyping programs and hands-on learning, MBF is cultivating a maker culture—shaping skilled, solution-driven students ready for the 21st century.”

Adil ZainulbhaiChairman, Quality Council of India
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“Maker Bhavan Foundation is not just shaping us as innovators but also helping us build our personalities. Through the Vishwakarma Awards, we had access to personality coaches and multiple training sessions that enhanced our presentation skills. Similarly, in the Invention Factory program, dedicated mentors work closely with us to ensure we communicate our ideas effectively. I truly appreciate how the foundation is investing in our overall growth, empowering us in every possible way.”

Saket JoshiIF2024@IITGN Alumni, Nirma University

Program Partners