Online registrations are invited for the New India Vibrant Hackathon 2023, organized by the Gujarat Knowledge Society Under the Student Start-up & Innovation Policy Education Dept. Gujarat.
About Hackathon
Problem-solving is at the heart of innovation and entrepreneurship activities. Young students across universities & innovators are the new source of creative pursuit in any innovation ecosystem. Quite often, the vast pool of energy of young students does not get optimally used due to a lack of structured process and orientation.
- Often, the innovation process does not provide suitable exposure to the students and other similar support in a systematic manner so that they can work on real-life challenges.
- Many open innovation processes have been tried globally now to involve potential innovators in problem-solving and opportunity creation.
- Structured innovation processes and institutional mechanism in time time-bound manner is generally practised across academia and industry for the same purpose.
Why Participate in New India Vibrant Hackathon 2023?
One such intervention is the widely practised hackathon model. Though primarily, it is intended to engage creative minds to solve and create a proof of concept in a time-bound nonstop process, it can also be tweaked to a blended mode of execution. In such a process as a hackathon, generally, digital solutions for certain challenges are asked to be developed. But it can also be designed for developing hardware solutions by redesigning the process with suitable infrastructure, time frame and allied resources.
In academia and industry, such hackathons have been one of the key processes to trigger new thoughts and attempt to solve given challenges in the constraint of time and team efforts. In academic practice, such pedagogy is quite prominent for imbibing problem-solving ability among young students.
- Young students actively participated and demonstrated their innovative skills in such programs.
- Such programs need to be attempted in different contexts from time to time so that it becomes an effective process of innovation itself to harness creative minds.
- Such attempts also bring academia, industry and governance together which creates an opportunity for co-creation in a structured institutionalised manner.
Hackathon Objective
While taking the legacy further, the Gujarat Knowledge Society, Education Department is organizing the “New India Vibrant Hackathon 2023” under SSIP 2.0.
Though primarily the program will be designed and executed to find solutions for various challenges of the State government departments and municipal corporations, further attempts will be made to develop the mechanism and process to innovate hardware/software solutions and innovation pertaining to different challenges.
The overall objective of this program is to channel huge among of youth energy which is currently being underutilised towards engaging them with more constructive agendas and imbibe new skills and attitudes to make them problem solvers and progressive contributors in civil society at large.
Student Start-up and Innovation Policy (SSIP 2.0)
- The Education Department Government of Gujarat has taken a series of initiatives to design and develop innovation processes and ecosystems across its affiliated colleges and universities.
- To structure and institutionalise various initiatives and support systems towards it, the Student Start-up and Innovation Policy (SSIP 2.0) has been designed and is being implemented.
- Under its mandate, various innovative interventions have been suggested to all universities.
- New efforts at various levels like institutional, pedagogical, process and community levels have been suggested to engage and leverage students across the innovation value chain.
- As mentioned above, one of the key recommendations to all universities and academia-led innovation systems is to organise efforts like hackathons and similar time-bound problem-solving and innovation activities.
Eligibility Criteria
- School Students (From Class 9 to 12)
- Students of any Institute/University
Benefits
- Exposure to real-world challenges and opportunities to work on them.
- Opportunity to win awards and prizes totalling ₹ 42 lakhs.
- SSIP 2.0 grant support for PoC/Prototype/Innovation and IP of top team.
Important Dates
- Outreach to all GoG Departments, PSUs MCs By 30th August 2023
- Sourcing and Defining Problem Statement by each Department Till 30th August 2023
- Publishing Problem Statements on Portal 5th September 2023
- Creating Awareness, Outreach Across All Colleges and Universities in Gujarat and Team Registration Start. September 2023
- Idea/Synopsis Submission by Team 30th October 2023
- Regional Round of Hackathon 1st Week of November 2023
- Grand Finale of Hackathon Last Week of November 2023
How to Register?
Interested candidates can register through this link.
Instructions
- Click here to view the instructions for the team registration.
- Click here to view problem statements.
Deadline
Idea/Synopsis Submission by Team October 30, 2023
Contact Details
ssipgujarat[at]gmail[dot]com
