HP Catalyst Showcase: STEM, Social Entrepreneurship and Glocaledge

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The National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) and Ministry of Human Resource development has estimated that there will be huge short fall of trained and skilled manpower in India by 2015. Our Project, STEM, Social Entrepreneurship and Glocaledge (global practices applied to provide a leading edge to local knowledge) aims at empowering rural youths and students from science, math and technical education background from rural areas to identify local developmental issues and form a scientific and innovative approach to address local problems, thereby enhancing their living conditions, improve businesses and trade in rural India.

India has a rich heritage of Science and Math and most local processes have a deep integration of STEM components woven into the processes followed in rural India. This project will specially focus on encouraging the rural youth to scientifically explore such processes; and create socially relevant business ideas and projects using the STEM based local knowledge and locally available resources. The project also envisages identifying social entrepreneurs; providing networking support and connecting them with researchers/ faculty from professional colleges and project incubation cells for mentoring; connecting them with Government bodies/ corporate for co-funding and sustainability of social entrepreneurship projects.

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