Fwd: 3 announcements: Workshop on Optics and Spectroscopy for Medical Diagnostics | Soil and Plant Health Campaign | Funding Call on Social Innovations
Mugdha Potnis-Lele
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Venture Center- India’s leading inventive enterprises incubator (Recipient, National Award for Technology Business Incubator, 2015) |
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Upcoming events organized by Venture Center |
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FREE TALK
9 Mar 2017
2 pm – 5.30 pm
Lecture Theatre, Venture Center
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Soil and Plant Health Campaign Brainstorming session on Soil and Plant Health : Situation, Needs and Priorities in India Who should attend · Innovators and technologists · NGOs and Social Innovators · Industry professionals · Researchers and students · Entrepreneurs/ startups with interest in Soil and Plant Health issues · Impact/ Social Investors with interest in venture financing for Soil and Plant Health issues. · Agriculture and farming technopreneurs and field practitioners
Highlights of the session: We aim to network all stakeholders to help initiate useful projects, start‐ups etc in Soil and Plant Health space. This brainstorming session is part of a campaign of Venture Center to nucleate and nurture Soil and Plant Health related startups in the Pune region. The workshop is aligned intentionally with the announcement of a funding program so as to help facilitate startup creation.
Brainstorming session aims to: · Explore industry-academia/research/farming technoprenuer partnerships in technology development and advancement. · Foster networks with industry/academic experts/agriculture and farming field practitioners/entrepreneurs · Introduce upcoming funding opportunities like the BIRAC‐SPARSH call for “Soil and Plant Health”.
Free of cost; Limited (50) seats; First-come-first-serve. Note: Attendance only on confirmation of registration Register here: http://bit.ly/2lksgN8 More info on: http://www.venturecenter.co.in/campaigns/sph/events/ |
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PAID WORKSHOP
10-11 Mar 2017
8.30 am - 5.30 pm Lecture Theatre, Venture Center Last date for receipt of applications 6 March 2017 |
Two Days Hands-on Workshop on Optics and Spectroscopy for Medical Diagnostics Organized by Tinkering lab, Venture Center Course Outline Talks: Basics of optics; Design of optical components; Introduction to spectroscopy (a. Reflection & absorption spectroscopy b. Fluorescence Spectroscopy c. Raman Spectroscopy d. IR Spectroscopy); Different challenges in optical study & experiments; Entrepreneurial case studies ; Applications in Medical Diagnostics Laboratory sessions: Optical components and systems design; Reflection and absorption spectroscopy; Fluorescence spectroscopy; IR and Raman Spectroscopy Hands-on-training on using tinkering lab optical and spectroscopy facilities | Fun activities |Case study demonstrations by entrepreneurs Register here: http://bit.ly/2lUSneA More on: http://tinkeringlab.co.in/events-2/ |
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FUNDING CALL!
Call extended last date 5 Mar 2017 |
Extension of call for Sanitation Tech Fellowships under Social Innovation Immersion Program Social Innovation Immersion Programme (SIIP) is a programme conceptualized by the Biotech Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), Government of India under its SPARSH (Social Innovation Programme for Products: Affordable & Relevant to Societal Health) scheme. Theme based call: Technology Solutions for Sanitation, Waste to value and allied problems Eligibility: Ph D/ M Tech / B Tech / MD / MBBS / MSc / M Phil / M Des / MPH /MBA / MSW and equivalents with under-graduate training in Science, Medicine, Engineering Highlights: · Fellowship and kick start grant · Develop socially relevant Sanitation theme-based innovations upto prototype stage · Mentoring and Advisory support from a team of experts More on: http://www.venturecenter.co.in/siip2 Contact: Email: si...@venturecenter.co.in | Tel: 91-20-25865875 / 76 / 77 |
Regards,
Mugdha Lele