ESPOIR
Various
healthcare issues plague our society. Espoir 2017 seeks advanced
healthcare solutions and ideas to address the appalling state of
health in our country. We strive for a nation where the best of
health care is available to all; a nation where Quality Healthcare
Services are accessible and affordable. Espoir 2017 is an effort
inviting innovations and solutions to that effect via a business plan
competition culminating at APOGEE 2017, Annual Technical Festival,
BITS Pilani. Espoir 2017 is one of the first Business Plan
competitions to be organized in the Health Sector in India. The
bright elucidations put forth through this venture by ignited minds
would surely help solve health problems of our nation and bestow upon
us a joyous future.
The
event is divided into 3 phases:
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Phase
1: Submission of the Executive Summary.
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Phase
2: Mentor-ship Phase.
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Phase
3: Final Presentation of Complete Business Plan in front of a panel
of judges at BITS Pilani (26th march, 2017)
The
first stage includes submission of the executive summary for your
business plan to [email protected],
the last date for the submission is 4th
march 2017. Results of the first stage will be declared on 12th
march 2017. Further details regarding the problem statement,
competition structure, rules etc. procedure can be obtained here.
It
is rightly said “There is no medicine like hope, no
incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of
something better tomorrow.”
Be
a part of Espoir. Be a part of Hope...
Problem
Statement:
Prosthetics:
The challenge here is to make prosthetic limbs which can be
integrated with body part and can effect movement by
sensing facial expression, muscle movement, eye motion etc. (for ex.
If you are making a prosthetic hand then the muscles of the upper
part of the hand can be used as stimulus for movement of
the prosthetic limb.
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Treatment
for drug-resistant bacteria.
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Treatment
of water contamination
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Improvement
in rural health.
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Low
cost diagnostic solutions for diseases like
Malaria, Tuberculosis and AIDS etc.
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Mechanisms
for safe disposal of medical waste.
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Low
cost solutions for Potable Water.
Note:
The above list is not exhaustive. If you can come up with any other
such problems, solutions for them are also invited.
Rules
• Participation
will be in teams of three or two. The participants will bear their
travel and accommodation on their own.
•
During
all stages of the event, the decision of a judge will be considered
as final and should be respected by the participants.
•
Pharmacy
Association bears the right to intervene during extreme cases.
Judging
Criteria
•
The
submitted entries will be judged on the basis of their economic
outcomes, feasibility and some of them will be filtered out during
each stage.
•
The
finalized B-Plans will be judged by a panel of judges on the basis of
their presentation of the ideas.
Eligibility
All
students pursuing any graduate or postgraduate degree courses in any
college specifically management colleges within India. All
participants must possess a valid ID card issued by their respective
institute and should be able to produce it whenever asked to do so.
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