Deadline: 12-Mar-23
The Infosys Foundation is inviting nominations for Aarohan Social Innovation Awards.
It’s the need to help. Help solve a real-world problem. A fellow human. When an idea is driven by empathy, the way-forward inevitably appears before you. Everything around you becomes a resource and anything you get your hands on becomes an asset. And the dedication to solve a real-world problem leads you to life altering ideas and heart-touching innovations. That’s the power that drives Social Innovation.
Aarohan Social Innovation Awards not only celebrates such innovations but believes in giving wings to your ideas by helping you scale-up and touch more lives.
Categories
- Aarohan Social Innovation Awards 2023 will recognize and reward social innovations in the following categories:
- Healthcare: From making healthcare accessible to all strata of society, to helping better diagnose diseases, they are looking for innovations that will help people and communities live healthier lives.
- Education: Right to education may be a fundamental right in India, but poverty denies many the childhood they deserve. If your prototype can make a difference in the field of education and sports, share your idea here.
- Women Empowerment: From better access to products related to personal hygiene, helping women build a fulfilling career, to ensuring their safety, they ’re looking for innovations that can empower women, build pride and make the self-sufficient.
Prizes: The Infosys Foundation will commit up to INR 50 lakh per winner, with a total prize purse of INR 2 crore.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Aarohan Social Innovation Awards (“Contest”) is open only to citizens of India residing in India, and who are 18 years of age or older. Directors of Infosys Limited (“Sponsor”) and Employees, the Company hosting the Contest Platform (“Administrator”) and each of their respective parent entities, subsidiaries and affiliated companies, owners, officers, directors, partners, agents, representatives, employees and contractors, advertising, promotion agencies, web masters and web suppliers (collectively “Released Parties”) and their respective dependents, immediate family members (parent, child, sibling and spouse) and individuals residing in their same household) are not eligible to enter or win a prize. Immediate family members of any of the judges are also not eligible to enter or win a prize.
- All the winners across various categories from the previous season of Aarohan Social Innovation Awards are not eligible to apply for the upcoming three years. However, they can apply from the fourth year with an entirely new innovation/prototype. Individuals whose prototypes were shortlisted last year but did not make it to the final selection can apply, only if they have a proof of making some significant enhancements to their prototypes. Individuals who submitted their entries last year but were not shortlisted can re-apply this year again.
- You may enter as an individual, team or as an NGO.
- As an individual: As an individual registrant, you should be a citizen of India, residing in India and must be 18 years of age or older as of 10th January, 2023.
- As a team: Size of a team consisting of individuals may not exceed a maximum of 3 persons. Each registrant should also be a citizen of India, residing in India and must be 18 years of age or older as of 10th January, 2023. You must select one representative to serve as the primary point of contact (“Representative”).”
- As an NGO (registered and operational in India only): You must select one representative to serve as the primary point of contact (“Representative”). In addition to providing your contact information as the Representative, you must attach Form 80G.
Judging Criteria
- A qualified panel of judges will judge all eligible entries based on the judging criteria and the highest scoring entries will undergo a product audit. The Top 30 entries qualifying the product audit will then advance to the Final Round.
- The Finalists (entrant or Team Representative) will be notified via email and will be asked to present their prototypes to the jury on the day of the final event. Top scoring entries selected by the Jury will then be declared the potential Grand Prize winners. In the event of a tie, the tie will be broken based upon the highest score for application to a social problem or need and continuing thereafter in each criteria as listed until the tie is broken.
- The Sponsor’s decisions on all matters pertaining to judging, administering and/or interpreting the terms and conditions of this Contest are final. Aarohan Social Innovation Awards undergoes a detailed process audit.
For more information, visit Aarohan Social Innovation Awards.