Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions (SRISTI)

‘SHATAYU’ Generation to Generation Knowledge

Sharing Competition

Dear Participants,

Become a part of conserving traditional knowledge and in the revival of traditional culture, which is retained by centenarian. There are few people who live as long as a hundred years. Having seen a lot of changes in climate, socioeconomic conditions, biodiversity, markets, style of governance, and cultural norms of society, there is a lot that we can learn from them.

SRISTI is a Not for Profit Organisation and in order to conserve the traditional heritage is inviting submissions of the detailed profile of the centenarians across the country. This competition is to encourage profiling of the lives of those individuals who are ‘banks’ holding treasures of practical experience of over hundred years and invaluable traditional knowledge.

Honey Bee Network is a crucible of like-minded individuals, innovators, farmers, scholars, academicians, policy makers, entrepreneurs and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). A Network having presence in more than seventy five countries is dedicated to the cause of preserving traditional knowledge and the innovations of the grassroots.

SRISTI (Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions) is a Not for Profit Organisation which supports the activities of the Honey Bee Network to recognize, respect and reward creativity at the grassroots.

If you are enthusiastic towards the above cause then your chance to contribute back to the society is here.

We want free and holistic dissemination of the traditional knowledge, experiences and culture throughout the country, so that the contemporary generation benefits and builds upon the existing treasure.

This competition will focus on the quality of the submissions of the detailed profile of the centenarians and will be judged by a panel of experts on the basis of the points system. Each participant will be given a questionnaire on the basis of which a detailed profile is to be made. The panel will allot points on the merit of individual entries (qualitative and quantitative) and accordingly the best entries will be shortlisted.

1st Prize: Rs. 5000/-

2nd Prize: Rs. 3000/-

3rd Prize: Rs. 1000/-

Participation certificates will be granted to each participant acknowledging his/her participation in the competition on his/her completion of 500 points.

Prizes:

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Deadline: Registration Deadline: August 15, 2015 by 11:59 PM.

Last date of submission of entries: September 10, 2015 by 11.59 PM.

All the best for this competition. We will invite the best contributors to work as

interns at the IIM, Ahmedabad on campus for a period of one month during the

winter of 2015.

Targets and IncentivesSr. No.

Tasks Points secured for the Task (upto)

1. Detailed Profile of the Centenarian

Make a detailed profile of the centenarian in accordance with the questionnaire provided by us in a narrative/story format.

The profile should be of minimum 10 pages long, typed in Font: Arial, Font Size: 12, Line Spacing: 1.5.

200

2. High Resolution current photographs of the centenarian, depicting daily activities, lifestyle, Family photos, etc. Also, photographs of their childhood, important events in their lives (like marriage, child birth etc.) and any other invaluable memories they have.

100

3. Video Clips- While interviewing or interacting with the centenarian.Note: The entire video of the interaction is not required, only 3-5 Minutes of the important part

100

of the conversations. For example, if centenarian is giving information about his or her daily routine, or any traditional knowledge with regards to home-medicinal cure, important events in his/her, life etc.Kindly, upload the videos on the YouTube and send the links to chetan@sristi.org

4. Layout, Presentation and Format-

Submissions shall be in the prescribed format as provided in the Draft Submissions.The profile should be written in a story/narrative format, making it easy for the end readers to comprehend it.The entire document should be in the Font: Arial, Font Size: 12 and Line Spacing: 1.5.

50

5. Advertisement, promotion on Social Media, Blogs, emails etc.We encourage spreading of word about this competition and we will quantitatively and qualitatively provide points for sharing about the competition within the peer-circle, social media, blogs etc.(For a true assessment of the promotion initiatives taken, kindly send screen shots of the posts/Emails/referring/advertising, etc. to chetan@sristi.org) ‘Best Promotion’ certificate will be given to three participants with highest assessment scores.

50

9. Incentives for best submissions(s) – Best Profile Award and A cash prize of Rs. 5000/- (first prize), Rs. 3000/- (Second Prize) and Rs. 1000/- (Third Prize) and an opportunity to intern at IIM, Ahmedabad on campus in the winter of 2015. (More than one intern may receive this opportunity)

GuidelinesFollowing Guidelines should be used:

1. Participants shall register with the organisers by filling up the following Google form:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1xvfxkk0zxS3JK8alwHaR_J89GppE2jsMPB-lLL9SX1Y/viewform?usp=send_form

(FOR ALL PURPOSES THE REGISTRATION SHALL BE FREE)2. For the purpose of this competition the term Centenarian shall include

any individual above the age of 95 years.3. The participants must strictly adhere to originality and any type of

plagiarism will lead to disqualification of the participants.

4. There is no entry fee for the competition.5. The language in which submissions have to be made shall be

English and the profile shall reflect a true translation of the interaction with the centenarian.

6. The submission shall be made in word 2007 or 2003 format and shall have formatting as: Font: Arial, Font Size: 12, Line Spacing: 1.5.

7. The essays can be sent in ‘.doc’ of ‘.docx’ format only.8. The participants are encouraged to submit multiple profile

submissions and certificates will only be issued on completion of 500 points, which could be completed through multiple submissions.

9. The participants shall also provide proof of age of the centenarian to the organisers, for verification purposes and kindly intimidate organisers in advance if such proofs are not available.

TimelineSr. No.

Particulars Date

1. Registration Starts August 6, 20152. Registration Ends August 15, 20153. Last date of Submission of the

profiles (By 11:59 PM). Email only Soft copy to chetan@sristi.org

September 10, 2015

4. Notification of the scores and the competition result.

September 25, 2015

Terms and Conditions All participants must adhere to the deadlines and no request of extension

of any sort will be entertained. The organisers reserve the right to publish the submission in any book,

journal etc., with giving due attribution to the authors of the respective submissions.

The decision of the organisers is binding in terms of awarding of points for submissions and no objections lie to the discretion of the organisers.

Once we have received your formal acceptance, you will receive a mail with operational guidelines.

For any queries please contact:

Mr. Chetan Patel- 09227447243

Ms. Megha Gajjar- +91 99749 33683

Ms. Ankita - 085110125569

Mr. Asang Wankhede- 088 601 97856

Email: chetan@sristi.org

Thanks and Regards,

SHATAYU Team

SRISTI, Ahmedabad