Inviting Entries of Student Projects for Gandhian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) Awards 2018
SRISTI celebrates the creativity of, and innovation by young technological students by recognising their outstanding projects with Gandhian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) Awards. These awards have been lately during the Festival of Innovation (FOIN) at Rashtrapati Bhawan in the month of March. Next year also, these awards are likely to be given in the month of March. It is hoped that such recognition will enthuse young innovators to pursue even more outstanding research and product/process innovations addressing unmet social needs. We also hope that many of the winners will set up entrepreneurial ventures in consonance with Start-Up movement gaining strength currently in India.
The categories of the GYTI awards are:
- MLM (More from less for many), Frugal Innovation award- ideas that economise on the use of material, and are extremely affordable and sustainable
- SRISTI socially relevant technological innovation award-ideas that address unmet social needs or improve the functioning of existing solution, increase affordability and/or improve circularity i.e. ecologcial compatability
- Technological-edge award-ideas that push the frontiers in any technolgical domain
- BIRAC-SRISTI award for biotechnological/medical/healthcare innovation
- Hari Om Ashram Prerit Dr. Amulya K.N. Reddy GYTI Award
Financial support is also given to some of the awardees as per following windows of opportunity:
- SRISTI-BIRAC GYTI Awards – Rs 15, 00,000 grants will be given for further research / prototype development work to each 15 awardees of medical and biotech arena
- SRISTI-BIRAC GYTI Appreciation Awards – Selected students will be invited to work in three week long Biotech Innovation Ignition camps (BIIC) hosted by Sadbhav SRISTI Sanshodhan Laboratory. Ten of the best 100 or less student lab projects in BIIC will be then given Rs one lac additional to take their ideas forward.
- Hariom Ashram prerit, Dr. Amulaya K. N. Reddy GYTI Award – Rs 50,000 each to Five GYTI awardees.
The faculty members can encourage their students to submit the projects at following URL: www.gyti.techpedia.in or submit it themselves under the names of the students. We acknowledge that much of the good work students do is done under the guidance of their teachers/mentors; however, we aim to encourage creativity of students and thus request teachers to support them in the Honey Bee Network movement’s effort to promote young innovators.
Last date for submission of entries is October 30, 2017
For any queries, please email us at [email protected] , Call us at 9099258492 We look forward to your cooperation in making India innovative and spread the spirit of the Honey Bee Network.
We request your kind cooperation in the following,
- Spreading the attached announcement of GYTI, among your network for inviting nominations for GYTI-2018 awards.
- Supporting techpedia by encouraging your students to upload all the abstracts of UG/PG projects at techpedia platform (or send us a bulk file and we will upload it on your behalf) for wider visibility.
We also request you to please circulate the material on social media channels.
We look forward to your continued support, guidance and help in making India innovative, collaborative and inclusive.
Thanking you and with best wishes,
Anil K. Gupta
Founder, Honey Bee Network
Coordinator, SRISTI
Secretary, GIAN
Visiting Faculty, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad