Dear Colleague,
SRISTI (Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions) has established three national awards for innovative student/faculty projects in engineering, pharmacy, science and applied technologies. These will be given away by Padmabhushan Dr. R.A.Mashelkar, President Global research alliance and Chairman, NIF at IIM-Ahmedabad on 5th April 2012. The awards will be given to young innovators in the following category:
A: Gandhian innovations: Student projects which address an important social, environmental or technological problem faced by masses or disadvantaged people/sectors/spaces or micro and small enterprises or have the potential to impact a pressing national need. The applications may be made by the past or present students of technical institutions/universities. On behalf of the students who have already passed out and left the Institute/ University, the faculty member, who supervised the project, can also apply.
B: SRISTI YUVA technologist Award" will be given to the best students projects which have a demonstrable proof of concept prototype having significant amount of novelty and social applications. Any projects completed in or after 2009 can be submitted by the students or their faculty supervisors on their behalf.
C: Strategic innovation/technological edge award will be given to students having made a breakthrough or a significant technological advance in any field of engineering, pharmacy, medical, agricultural, or any other technological field
The full project report of the shortlisted projects will be needed for final evaluation.
All the shortlisted entries and the winners will be displayed at the annual exhibition at IIMA on April 5, 2012. The submitted entries will be included in techpedia.in database with due acknowledgement of the name of the team members, supervisor, college, department and any contact information which is permissible.
Selected prototype will be displayed at an exhibition at the final award function on 5th April at IIM-Ahmedabad. These will be visited by leading policy makers of the country. The prototype may be retained to be displayed in a permanent exhibition likely to be developed soon at the national stage with due acknowledgement of innovators, supervisors and the concerned institution.
The nominations have to be submitted at http://www.techpedia.in/award and only abstract of the content submitted along with innovator's detail would be published at the site or shared otherwise. But if they wish to have incubation support, they should clearly indicate the same in their nomination form. SRISTI reserves the right to include technologies, which have not been nominated if the criteria is met.
For any query- Mr. Hiranmay Mahanta, +91-9909959336, hiranmay@techpedia.in , feedback@techpedia.in . Reference- www.techpedia.in , and www.sristi.orgmay be contacted.
Looking forward to your cooperation