CHILDREN
Ideas contest
The Children’s Creativity and Co-creation workshops empower children to not only identify and articulate their problems as well as that of socially disadvantaged segments, but also to find solutions individually and collectively. Involvement of children in solving the social challenges faced by them and others would help us mobilise the creative potential of children around the world.
This might help in overcoming persistent social inertia in emerging and sometimes even in advanced economies.
Creative workshop
The workshops aimed at tapping the dormant creative potential of underprivileged children who probably did not have the courage or opportunity or a platform to articulate their ideas. Likewise, children from relatively affluent families who received the award who have innovated in some areas were expected to come out with creative ideas in other domains as well.
A total of four such workshops were organized as per the table below.
Bio-diversity contest
One of the major guiding principles of SRISTI behind the educational innovations has been to inculcate a sense of appreciation, care and concern towards the environment and nature. This has been done by organizing bio-diversity contests among the children. The concept of biodiversity competition implies that children in a village school are informed about the competition a few weeks in advance.
Each child is told to bring on the appointed date, a list of as many plants as they can find out, identify their uses after talking to their grandparents, neighbours or whoever, and collect samples in the case of plants which are not endangered. They are given points on the basis of each criteria and are also quizzed to find out whether they remember some of the things that they have written.
UNDER GRADUATED STUDENTS
Biotech Innovation Ignition School (BIIS)
SRISTI (Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions) in collaboration with BIRAC (Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council, Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India) is organizing a three-week SITARE BIIS (Students Innovations for Translation & Advancement of Research Explorations-Biotech Innovation Ignition School) for validating, value adding and product development around grassroots innovations.
The BIIS will try to develop solutions for grassroots applications for human, animals, and agricultural applications including herbal technologies, medical devices and microbial application.
The BIIS-4 will be held at SRISTI, Grambharti, Gandhinagar from 13th November to 4th December, 2019.
The selected students will be assigned individual projects in primarily five action-research areas drawing upon the Honey Bee Network Database.
Gandhian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) Awards
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 during the Festival of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (FINE), Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi March 19, 2018
Summer school
Every summer when there are holidays, parents are concerned about their children, particularly those who are not yet trapped in exam fever. The college students look for internship, summer school or other activities to build their skills. Some just want to have fun.
Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions [SRISTI] and Grassroots Innovation Augmentation Network [GIAN] are organizing several summer schools every year in collaboration with FAB LAB of National Innovation Foundation [NIF] at Grambharti, Amrapur.
POST GRADUATED STUDENTS
SRISTI-GYTI awards
SRISTI has signed an agreement with BIRAC-DBT to facilitate the Innovations by students and grassroots people. The salient features of this agreement are to expand the funnel for early stage student led ideas and innovations, sometimes only at proof of concept level, for recognition and further development in the field of medical devices, diagnostics and biotech applications for meeting unmet social needs in extremely frugal and potentially sustainable manner.
BIRAC-SRISTI GYTI Awards and BIRAC-SRISTI Appreciation Awards were instituted under this Agreement.
SITARE-GYTI awards
15 innovative student projects will receive funding support of upto INR 15 lakhs each. SITARE-GYTI encourages postgraduate and doctoral students to undertake projects with commercial potential leading to creation of biotech startups.
The fund recipients are recognized as BIRAC’s SITARE-GYTI beneficiaries.
Summer school
Every summer when there are holidays, parents are concerned about their children, particularly those who are not yet trapped in exam fever. The college students look for internship, summer school or other activities to build their skills. Some just want to have fun.
Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions [SRISTI] and Grassroots Innovation Augmentation Network [GIAN] are organizing several summer schools every year in collaboration with FAB LAB of National Innovation Foundation [NIF] at Grambharti, Amrapur.
TEACHERS
Workshops
Teachers as Transformers, by Vijaya Sherry Chand and Shailesh Shukla, Ravi J. Matthai Centre for Educational Innovation, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, was the title of a volume brought out by UNICEF, Gujarat, in 1998 that presented the work of 30 outstanding teachers of Gujarat.
This volume was the genesis of a search for outstanding teachers who, using their own intellectual resources, have managed to innovate and improve education in their contexts.
Profiles
Coming soon
SHODHYATRA
Shodh Yatra is to undertake a journey for the search of knowledge, creativity and innovations at the grassroots. Shodh Yatra is an attempt, on the part of SRISTI, to reach out to the most remote parts of the country with a firm belief that the hardship and challenges of natural surroundings are prime motivators of creativity and innovations. Shodh Yatra aims at unearthing such traditional knowledge and grassroots innovations. Shodh Yatra is also a journey of mutual exchange and sharing of knowledge.
Whatever knowledge and practices that we have pooled in, over the years are shared with the villagers during the Shodh Yatra. We also share the Honey Bee database with the villagers. Shodh Yatra is also a journey undertaken to spread green consciousness and we do it by involving women and children to display their ecological knowledge through various competitions.
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