For the second season of its nationwide education and innovation competition, Samsung India said on Tuesday that it has teamed with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) Startup Hub and Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer (FITT), IIT Delhi.
The program, known as “Samsung Solve for Tomorrow,” welcomes young people in the age range of 16 to 22 to apply with their creative ideas about diversity and inclusion, health and wellness, environment and sustainability, and education and learning.
The top three teams will receive Rs 1.5 crore to implement their ideas, and additional participants who place in the top 30 and top 10 will receive rewards throughout the program.
Mentoring and training will be provided to participants by Samsung, IIT Delhi, and MeitY Startup Hub.
“Youth are at the center of the government’s vision, which aims to encourage a thriving ecosystem of innovation and entrepreneurship throughout the nation. They require all the assistance and guidance they can get in order to make their ideas into reality and have a significant societal impact “said Alkesh Kumar Sharma, MeitY’s secretary.
Almost 18,000 young people nationwide registered for the initiative’s initial season in 2022. Anybody in India between the ages of 16 and 22 may apply this year till May 31 at 5 p.m.
“The inaugural season’s entries gave us a rare glimpse into the worries and issues that young people in India are thinking about. They examined problems such as waste management, wasted electricity and water, plastic waste, speech difficulties, and pandemic prediction and solutions “said JongBum Park, CEO of Samsung Southwest Asia.
The “Solve for Tomorrow” program, which was first introduced in the US in 2010, is now active in 63 countries and has attracted the participation of over 2.3 million young people.
Professor Rangan Banerjee, Director, IIT Delhi, remarked, “We are pleased to join with Samsung to allow young innovators to transform their ideas into solutions for real-world challenges through the ‘Solve for Tomorrow’ competition.
