Fw: {Reminder Mail} Inviting Entries of Student Projects for Gandhian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) Awards 2020

[Dr. Ram Naresh Rai]

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Subject: {Reminder Mail} Inviting Entries of Student Projects for Gandhian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) Awards 2020

Dear Dr. Ram Naresh Rai,

Subject: the last date for entries for SITARE-GYTI Awards and other GYTI awards extended to Nov 15, 2019

As you are aware, 15 SITARE-GYTI awards of Rs 15 lac each is given to post graduate students from life sciences, agriculture, veterinary sciences, drug development, pharmacy, medical devices, and other related ares having potential for developing practical societal applications ( submit entries at BIRAC site ).  

Likewise SRISTI-GYTI awards are given in all other disciplines of technology, engineering, and other scientific domains to undergraduate as well as post graduate students at GYTI
 
we request you to share this information with all your students/colleagues and encourage them to apply soonest.

A.  Spreading the attached announcement of GYTI, among your network for inviting nominations for GYTI-2020 awards.
B.  Supporting techpedia.in   by encouraging your students to upload all the abstracts of UG/PG projects at techpedia.in platform (or send us a bulk file and we will upload it on your behalf) for wider visibility and promotion of originality and innovation among students.

Also, we are pleased to inform that this year we are planning to take a few wildcard entries for GYTI-2020 nominations from the abstracts submitted to Techpedia.in in the coming months.

Thanking you and with best wishes,

Anil K. Gupta
CSIR Bhatnagar Fellow 2018-21  
Founder, Honey Bee Network and  NIF,  SRISTI.org, and GIAN.org
Visiting Faculty, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and IITB  

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Announcement GYTI 2020 

 

Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Awards, 2020
SRISTI (Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions) has established three national awards for innovative student projects in engineering, biotechnology, agriculture, pharmacy, material science, and other applied technological domains. These awards were given by honourable vice president Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu at Vigyan Bhawan on July 06, 2019.

Last date for submission of entries is extended till November 15, 2019
The awards will be given to young student innovators in the following category:

•  SITARE-GYTI award for biotechnological/medical/healthcare innovation, applications to be submitted at BIRAC site.
• MLM (More from less for many), Frugal Innovation award- technologies that economise on the use of material, are extremely affordable, sustainable.
•  SRISTI socially relevant technological innovation award-products/prototypes that address unmet social needs or improve the functioning of existing solutions, increase affordability and/or improve circularity i.e. ecological compatibility.
• Technological-edge award-ideas that push the frontiers in any technological domain.
• Hari Om Ashram Prerit Dr. Amulya K.N. Reddy GYTI Award.

Techpedia (www.techpedia.in) at SRISTI invites entries for these awards by November 15, 2019.

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 are invited. 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 but awards would be given only to students willing to take their ideas forward.

The full project report of the shortlisted projects will be needed for final evaluation. Video, photographs, test reports, comparative advantage vis a vis existing solutions in that domain, literature & patent review, etc., may be attached.

The last date for submission of entries is November 15, 2019

Students in the final year Ph.D. may be allowed an extra year ( after completing a Ph.D.) to work on their award if they wish to in life sciences. All the shortlisted entries of the winners will be displayed in March 2020. The submitted entries will also be hosted on www.techpedia.in database with due acknowledgment of the name of the team members, supervisor, college, department and any contact information provided during the application.

The exhibition will be visited by leading policymakers and practitioners of the country. The prototype may be retained to be displayed in a permanent exhibition likely to be developed soon at the national level with due acknowledgment of innovators, supervisors and the concerned institution.

The nominations for non-life sciences have to be submitted at http://www.techpedia.in/award but only abstract of the content submitted along with innovator detail would be published at the site or shared otherwise. If the students wish to have incubation support, they should clearly indicate the same in their nomination form. SIIE-Bio-NEST incubator supported by BIRAC, DBT, Government of India at SRISTI Innovations welcomes applications from innovative biotech researchers. For those interested in IPR support, assistance from a network of pro bono attorneys can be mobilized at concessional term.

We also invite applications for two Biotechnological Innovation Ignition Schools for three weeks for mainly UG students but others can also apply at SITARE-BIIS dates are , January 13-February 3, and February 17-March 9, 2020 at SRISTI lab, Grambharati, Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
 
For any query, please contact Team Techpedia-GYTI at gyti.te...@sristi.org, Call us at +919099258492.

For awards given this year please visit www.techpedia.in, www.sristi.org, bi...@sristi.org initiative.

Looking forward to your enthusiastic cooperation to make India Innovative to encounter the unmet social needs.

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Prof. Anil K. Gupta

CSIR Bhatnagar Fellow 2018-21

Founder, Honey Bee Network, SRISTI, GIAN & NIF 
Visiting Faculty, IIMA & IITB

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