The SPARSH program (Social Innovation Programme for Products: Affordable & Relevant to Societal Health) is an initiative under BIRAC (Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council). It is designed to foster innovation and entrepreneurship in the biotechnology sector with a specific focus on societal health issues.
SPARSH objectives :
- Identify and provide support to cutting edge innovations towards affordable product development that can bring significant social impact and address challenges of inclusive growth.
- Provide support in form of impact funding of biotech product innovations (with social goals) that can be scaled.
- Create and foster a pool of social innovators in biotech and provide a platform to share best practices, understand intricacies of business models in social innovation and network.
SIIP : Social Innovation Immersion Programme
Supported by Department of Biotechnology’s Biotech Industry Research Assistance Council (DBT-BIRAC), the Social Innovation Immersion Programme (SIIP) is a fellowship program under the SPARSH (Social Innovation Programme for Products: Affordable & Relevant to Societal Health) scheme. This scheme highlights the need of innovative solutions to society’s most pressing problems. He scheme tackles major social issues and offers new ideas for wide-scale change.
Theme calls under Social Innovation Immersion Program:
Call 1: Maternal and Child Health: Pune MedTech Fellowships (2015-16)
Call 2: Sanitation and Waste to Value: Sanitation Tech Fellowships (2017-18)
Call 3: Ageing and Health: Geriatrics Tech Fellowships (2018-19)
Call 4: Waste to Value: Social Innovation Tech Fellowships (2020-22)
Call 5: Agritech: Social Innovation Tech Fellowships (2022-23)
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