Announcement
SITARE
BIIS: Opportunity for technology students to work on grassroots innovations
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-5 will be held at SRISTI,
Grambharti, Gandhinagar from 15th March to 5th April,
2020.
The selected students will be assigned
individual projects in primarily five action-research areas drawing upon the
Honey Bee Network Database:-
1. Pharmacognosy/Phytochemistry - SRISTI’s
Grassroots database contains many traditional knowledge practices as well
contemporary innovations from across the country. These projects would involve
validation/ value addition to these practices. A few of these practices are
presented here- http://www.sristi.org/hbnew/honeybee_database.php
2.
Soil Microbiology-SRISTI has a Microbial diversity bank containing 8000+
organisms (bacteria, fungi, and actinomycetes) isolated from the soil samples
collected during ShodhYatras (learning
walks for scouting and sharing innovations and local practices) in different
parts of the country (http://www.sristi.org/cms/shodhyatra). An extensive study
of screening these isolated microbes for novel human, animal and agricultural
application would be conducted.
3. Veterinary Medicine- Validation of
traditional practices for the improvement of livestock health, nutrition and
productivity.
4. Agriculture- Validation of grassroots
practices by conducting trials in lab, on station and in field for product
development/improvement.
5. Medical devices- Value addition/product
development of any of the open source projects listed on our summer school
website (http://summerschool.sristi.org/) or medical devices for human and
animal health care or meeting any other unmet social needs.
Eligibility
to apply
Students pursuing Bachelors programme in
any discipline can apply. The student should have a valid ID issued by the
Institution/University.
A
few seats are reserved for post graduate students also. In exceptional cases,
even school children with interesting ideas may be considered.
The abstracts along with the objective of
the projects will be shared with the selected students three weeks before the
start of the BIIS. The participants would be expected to do literature review
before joining the School. They are
likely to develop a project proposal as well as work plan. These students would
receive an expert feedback on their proposals from the reviewers. These students will also receive hands-on
training in various techniques of microbiology, phytochemical extraction
procedures, and using various lab equipment (AAS, HPTLC, HPLC, ELISA, PCR,
BSL-I & II etc.) as per the need of the project in the first week of the
event.
Application
Process
Applications need to be submitted online at
BIRAC site and can also be sent directly to SRISTI at biis@sristi.org
Format of application with Statement of
Purpose will be accessed through the website.
Process
for submitting the proposals online is detailed below:
• Log on to the BIRAC website
www.birac.nic.in
• If you are a registered user, log-in
using the credentials, else you need to register yourself as an individual by
clicking on New User Registration.
• In case of new user registration, a
computer generated password would be sent to the email-id provided at the time
of registration. The password can be changed later.
• Once you login, you would be navigated
to the page displaying SITARE-BIIS link.
• Click on the SITARE-BIIS application
link under Programmes and the active call would be highlighted.
• Click on the active call against which
you wish to submit the proposal.
Selection
Process
Selection will be based on Statement of Purpose
(SoP) submitted by the Student. Key factors for selection of applications
include
• Originality (40%)
• Clarity of Purpose (20%)
• Implementation Plan (15%)
• Potential impact (15%)
Travel/Accommodation
Following
expenses will be covered for student participants:
• Hostel accommodation
• Breakfast, lunch, dinner
• Shuttle facility from hostel to project
site
Frugality will be practiced at all stages
and in all functions. The students should be willing to adapt to simple
conditions of subsistence with high expectation of hard work.
The work done by students during BIIS will
be assessed on the last day of the school and the outstanding studies (up to 10
per BIIS) going to be identified for further support of INR 1 lakh each as
SITARE-Appreciation Award Grant. The grantees are expected to conduct further
research on the topic either at home institution or at SRISTI’s lab.
Above all, students would get an
invaluable opportunity to interact with both national and international experts
as well as grassroots practitioners/innovators in their respective fields. It
is hoped that each participant becomes a volunteer of the Honey Bee Network
which has helped in scouting and disseminating rural creativity and innovation
over the last three decades.
All the output will be credited to the
grassroots knowledge providers and can be published thereafter with prior
written concurrence of the BIIS team and knowledge providers.
Highest ethical code of biotech research
is expected to be followed. Team spirit and willingness to develop open source
solutions will be highly encouraged. Peer learning will be strongly encouraged.
The findings will be shared with knowledge providers in local language with the
help of SRISTI and Honey Bee Network team.
Kindly email at biis@sristi.org or call at
9426140041 (Dr. MeghaBarot) for further queries.
Last
date for submission of application is 25th February, 2020 on or
before 12:00 p.m.
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