5th National Social Enterprise Idea Challenge:
Response to COVID - 19 crisis
Winning Team: Jal Kumbi from University of Calcutta
– Aims to create floating gardens in ponds to cultivate organic vegetables and create employment for the Musahar community which consist mainly of landless labourers.
1st Runner Up: Enactus JMI from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
– Aims to manufacture biodegradable face masks and sanitary napkins, both of which would be made from abaca fiber, to reduce the accumulation of waste and offer a cheap and effective alternative to disposable masks and sanitary napkins providing livelihood support to domestic violence survivors.
2nd Runner Up: De-Covify from IIT, Delhi.
– Solution for minimising direct and indirect transmission of COVID-19 through two products named ‘Visage’ and ‘Cov-Ring’. Visage consists of a cotton mask and a PET visor attached to it to prevent droplet transmission. Cov-Ring is a hand gear designed to prevent direct skin exposure to surfaces.
Watch the final presentations here :
Social Enterprise Idea Challenge 2020 - Shortlist
The Azim Premji University Social Enterprise Cell invited Ideas from students to help institutions, communities and individuals to face and overcome many issues that are coming up with the COVID - 19 crisis. The COVID - 19 is far more than a health crisis; it has affected the economy and livelihood of people and has challenged our institutions, systems and the overall society. We are glad that in this 5th year of National level Social Enterprise Idea Challenge (Response to COVID 19) we have received 85 submissions from students all over India. Our Jury members shortlisted 11 teams for final presentations and selection of winners of the 5th National Social Enterprise Idea Challenge. Final presentations will happen in December. Below are the shortlisted teams:
Social Enterprise Idea Challenge – Agenda
Schedule and Webinar Links
Preliminary round : Starts at 09.30 am
| Group-A |
Group-B |
Teams:
Jal Kumbhi, University of Calcutta | De Covify, IIT Delhi | Khud Kafil,
Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, New Delhi | Anna Data, IIM Bangalore
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Teams:
Akshat, Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar | Enactus JMI, Jamia Millia Islamia,
New Delhi | ELSA, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi | The Global Thinkers, L'ecole Chempaka,
Thiruvananthapuram
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Webinar link
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Webinar link
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The Jury for the preliminary round are -- Manoj P, Registrar, Azim Premji University,
Annapurna Neti, Vikas Maniar, Priyanshu Gupta - Faculty members, Azim Premji University
Final Round : Starts at 2:00 pm
Teams : Shortlisted from the Preliminary round
Webinar Link :
The Jury members for final round are:
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Venky Natarajan - Co-founder & partner at Lok Advisory Services. Prior to Lok, he was with Intel Corporation
and Intel Capital doing early stage technology venture capital investments.
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Anuj Sharma - an entrepreneur himself; founder of ALSiSAR IMPACT. He is also a visiting faculty at TISS,
involved with their social enterprise cell and his passion is to foster entrepreneurship across geographies
& to facilitate future leaders and entrepreneurs specially from underprivileged background
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Richa Govil - Director, School of Development, Azim Premji University. She has worked for
about 20 years in roles spanning business strategy,
school education, agricultural interventions, social enterprises, teaching and training.
| Teams Shortlisted for Finals of 5th National Idea Challenge |
| Team Name |
Team Members |
Institution |
Idea Name |
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| The Achievers 2.0 |
Prieyasha
Solanki
Rashi Vaidya
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Azim Premji University, Bengaluru |
E- Chowk |
| ELSA |
Deepika
Chaudhary
Anubhi Singh |
Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi |
Re-Live - a one stop solution for Mental Wellness |
|
Krati Gupta |
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| Enactus Miranda House |
Akaanksha
Bahadur
Chetna Singh
Himakshi
Butan |
Miranda House, New Delhi |
Project Kasira |
| Akshat |
Yashashree
Deore
Sailee Kada
Gajanan
Wattamwar |
Indian Insitute of Public Health, Gandhinagar |
Redressing MHR(My Health record) |
| Enactus JMI |
Nawaz
Ahmed Khan
Marufa Sabir |
Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi |
Shrimati |
| W-GRASS |
Ambika
Subash
Nishat Anjum
Hitasha
Sharma |
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi |
Combined Biomass cum Cooking Plant |
| Jal Kumbhi |
Niwas Kumar
Shivani
Kumari
Likhin KV |
University of Calcutta, Kolkata |
JalKumbhi for Good |
| AnnaData |
Kinjal Dhole
Namita Bhat
Deespshikha
Meena
Akshay
Khairkar
Siddarth Iyer |
Indian Institute of Management, Bengaluru |
AnnaData - trying to addess the basic need of Indian Citizens i.e., food |
| De-Covify |
Suhani Gupta
Sanyam Jain
Ritika Jain
Prateeksha
Punia
Bhaanu Ashok
Anima
Mandwariya |
Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi |
De-Covify: Personal Protection Equipments |
| Khud - Kafil |
Asmi
Medha
Kulshreshtha |
Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, New Delhi |
Khud Kafil |
| The Global Thinkers |
Vaanathi
Chonachalam
Lekshmi
Vijay
Bharathi
Chonachalam |
L'ecole Chempaka International, Thiruvananthapuram |
EduHub |
The Azim Premji University Social Enterprise cell organises the “National level Social
enterprise Idea challenge” among college and University students across India.
The Cell organizes the Idea Challenge every year with a purpose to provide students an
opportunity to explore social entrepreneurship and share their innovative ideas in a rigorous
and competitive manner. This is also a great networking platform for young minds to meet
each other, exchange thoughts and get noticed by some of the early stage mentors and
investors. The winning teams are awarded with certificates and prize money.
The 4 th edition of the Idea Challenge will be announced in July 2019 – please visit this page
for more details soon
First National level Social Enterprise idea
challenge’16
Winning Teams
| Name Of The Institution |
Name Of The Team members |
Rank |
Ideas |
| KJ Somaya Institute of
Management Studies and
Reserach, Mumbai |
Shashanka
Sekhar |
FIRST |
A social healthcare based venture to bring about eco- friendly and
commercially viable solutions for biomedical waste disposal,
by transforming the unorganized field into an organized one. |
| NIT, Nagpur |
Anil Kumar
Reddy |
SECOND |
Conceived a crowd-sourcing platform,
named “Donatekart”, for social organizations
where the later can run campaigns listing
down the products that they are in need of,
and donors can donate these products online |
| IRMA |
Divyang
Panchal |
THIRD |
Was to build a social enterprise which makes
handmade marriage invitation cards for upper
middle class and upper class in urban areas |
| Montfort College |
Nitish J
Bhagath |
THIRD |
Rise – a platform to bridge the gap in the
mental health sector by providing public
access |
Second National level Social Enterprise idea
challenge’17
Winning Teams
| Name Of The Institution |
Name Of The Team members |
Rank |
Ideas |
| Indian Institution of
Technology,
Madras |
Akhilesh D
S N |
FIRST |
"Modular Housing" An idea of foldable housing to address
the need of Decent Temporary Shelter to rehabilitate
the disaster affected victims. |
| Kumaraguru
College Of
Technology |
Ranjith
kumar.P |
SECOND |
“Reinforced Acoustic Tiles”
Utilization of Agro Waste
Housing material using straw |
| Montfort College |
Nitish J
Bhagath |
THIRD |
Portable water Filter Device |
| Angadi Institute Of
Technology And
Management |
Niranjan
Karagi |
THIRD |
Rise – a platform to bridge
the gap in the mental health
sector by providing public
access |
Third National level Social Enterprise idea
challenge’18
Winning Teams
| Name Of The Institution |
Name Of The Team members |
Rank |
Ideas |
| M.I.T. Group
of Institutes,
Ujjain |
Jitendra
Singh
Choudhary |
FIRST |
Idea named " Shuddham".
The Idea is proposing to address the crucial issue of water
crisis in the world by developing a device which can filter
waste water and make it re-usable for secondary purposes like washing and cleaning. |
| Kongu
Engineering
College
Erode |
1)V.Gowtham
2)N.Balaji |
SECOND |
The idea is to recycle and reuse
construction waste obtained from
demolition of old concrete
structures to produce sustainable
building materials for the
construction industry. |
| IIT Delhi |
Sannat Mengi |
THIRD |
“Project Titli” which sought to
transform the way of imparting
awareness on Menstruation with a
fun – filled and engaging set of
games. |
| Azim Premji
University |
1)Sanjeet
Prakash Rao
2) Brihas
Tiwari |
THIRD |
“Less is Good: a sustainable
alternative to paper and plastic
cutlery” is to develop a sustainable
business approach to reduce the
usage of plastic, paper and
styrofoam cutlery by providing
clean steel cutlery to food vendors. |
The winning social impact ideas in our 4th National Social Enterprise Idea Challenge 2019
Open Category
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Christ College & PES University, Bangalore (1st Prize)
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The Farm Theory is an agri-tech start-up that aims to create a sustainable food system from farm to fork to eliminate food waste and end hunger.
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Tata Institute of Social Science, Tuljapur (1st Runners -up)
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The idea is to provide sustainable educational means in rural areas along with the traditional education with the help of a STEM educational platform.
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Institute of Rural Management, Anand (2nd Prize)
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A social enterprise which will provide affordable warehousing services for onion cultivators along with market leads for the stored produce.
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Special Category prize "Waste, Water and Energy"
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Institute of Engineering &Management, Kolkata
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The idea is to use concentrated solar power and geothermal Heat Sink for an efficient, quick, and economical conversion of waste water to fresh water.
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Click here to download the brochure of Social Enterprise Idea Challenge 2019
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