3M India announced the launch of the second edition of the Young Innovators Challenge Awards 2015 in association with CII. The platform aims to support and encourage young technical innovators between the age of 18 – 30, across India to come up with inspiring and innovative ideas with a social relevance.
The various themes are:
- Productivity – Innovations that improve output or affordability
- Sustainability – Innovations that leave a positive ecological and environmental impact
- Disruptive – Innovations that represent breakthrough technology or help create a totally new market or way to deliver the impact
Speaking on the occasion, Amit Laroya, Managing Director, 3M India said
Innovative thinking forms an integral part of the 3M culture. Through this initiative we believe we are taking this belief a notch higher. 3M is looking to promote and invest in young ideas and talent to develop not only socially responsible innovations but ideas which could be prototyped with the capability to address social good at large.
Speaking on the occasion, Kris Gopalakrishnan, Past President, CII and Chairman, India Innovation Summit & Co-Founder, Infosys said
3M-CII Young Innovators Challenge gives an opportunity for youth across India to showcase their innovations and get recognized. This recognition allows winners to get additional funding and scale up their innovations.
Why should you participate
The 10 best ideas will be invited for a pitch session on 23-24 July, based on which a reputed jury will choose 3 winning entries. The winners will then be felicitated at the 11th India Innovation Summit 2015, organized by CII in Bangalore on 6th ~ 7th August, where they will be given an opportunity to present their winning projects.
Contestants can submit the entries here or email their ideas to submissions@3Myounginnovatorschallenge.org
The winners will also receive grants [up to Rs 2 Lakhs] from 3M India to prototype their idea.