Twenty years of proof.

FAER has backed student innovation since 2005 — 50+ colleges and 600+ student teams every year. This is the credibility layer funders and partners check.

Partner with FAER

20+

years

Backing student innovation since 2005

50+

colleges

Across India, every year

600+

student teams a year

Building real projects each year

technology tracks

From AI to rural and healthcare technologies

What a FAER student builds

MED-LENS — AI-Based Tool for Preliminary Diagnosis of Dermatological Manifestations

Sri Sairam Engineering College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu

An AI-based tool that assists with preliminary diagnosis of skin (dermatological) conditions.

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Proof you can check

What we’re committing to measure.

As the new platform comes online, these are the numbers we’ll track and report — honestly, including where we fall short.

Reach and equity

How many students apply, and the share who are rural or semi-urban and first-generation.

The climb completed

Teams that finish and defend a project, and how many carry it further.

Why FAER is built the way it is

We stay for the whole ladder.

We looked hard at how others do this — a benchmark of twenty programmes, ten Indian and ten global. The finding was the same each time: a competition judges a project and then lets go of the student. Each one owns a rung or two of the climb.

FAER stays for the whole of it — a fair application reviewed by people, a faculty guide named on the project, support for the parts a build needs, a judged and defended project with feedback to everyone who applied, and a published record that carries a student’s name onward. That is what no comparable programme offers, and it is why a FAER outcome holds up to scrutiny.