SRISTI summer school on Open inclusive Innovations: 2019 संवेदना से सृजनशीलता (Creativity through Empathy)

Will you, the students, young faculty and independent professionals like to use your technological, design and other skills to develop open innovative solutions for meeting unmet social needs?

Join an opportunity for immersive interaction and fabrication with grassroots innovators?

May 26 to June 20, 2019, Grambharati, Amrapur

The SRISTI, an integral part of the Honey Bee Network Invites budding technologists /innovators /social entrepreneurs to  design  solutions  in the following broad domains:

Electronic Sensor and AI based products for women, children, elderly, farmers and other social segments

Mechanical /electronics Engineering based devices for urban/rural poor, workers/small farmers in farm/non-farm sector, processing, construction, handloom, crafts, water supply, sanitation, assistive solutions, and any other related sector

Designing Apps/smartphone based platforms for seeking and spreading innovative ideas, on-farm trials, social diffusion of innovations, natural products, peer learning among children, educational support for disadvantaged children, designing home based biotech experiments by children and their parents, design for improving web presence of HBN, GIAN database, social media analysis for defusing innovation, etc.

Eligibility

UG // PG // Ph.D. students, young faculty, professionals (if very passionate) engaged in  Design, Engineering, Architecture, Social Science and other fields ( from CSIR labs or any other institution of higher learning) who are determined  to address social challenges.

Selection process

Apply 

While submitting your application, please look around and list 10 unmet social needs – 5 rural + 5 urban needs. Illustrate one need (among the 10) which you would like to take ahead from idea to prototype.

SRISTI will also share a few unmet social needs with the selected participants. You are free to work on a problem of your choice also at the Summer School, which can be different from the one you submit during application.  As long as it addresses a clearly defined unmet need of disadvantaged section of society it will be welcome. However, the group work will be pursued on already identified social challenges unless a team can convince the group that its chosen problem is far more important and urgent.

Experts from CSIR, DBT, DST and other institutions in India and abroad will address the students

Application deadline: April 25, 2019

Target group size: 60 candidates to be announced by April 30, 2019

Outcome

Five to seven proof of concept, processes, Apps, and service/system design to move from mind to market-social or commercial but preferably openly accessible to users

It is understood that several ideas/products will need considerably more design and fabrication effort to make them useful for the target users/communities. SRISTI is committed to follow up each solution and keep the original group informed and engaged if they so wish. All the solutions will be shared with the user community in open source. In some cases, the defensive patent may be filed to prevent any third party monopolizing the design. SRISTI will have full right to share the solutions developed during summer school to modify, change or improve for the larger social good.

Fees

SRISTI, is a developmental voluntary organization set up to strengthen the creativity of grassroots inventors, innovators, and ecopreneurs engaged in conserving biodiversity, developing eco-friendly educational, technological, cultural or institutional solutions to local problems.