The JK Lakshmipat University has launched the JKLU Innovation Challenge, a competition that encourages the school students with different ideas to think in the wake of problem solving and innovation. Themed as Finding solutions for tomorrow, today. The challenge is open to Class XI and XII students of schools across India.

The participants must provide innovative solutions to achieve for the any one or more of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) defined by the United Nations Development Programme for the year 2030, to make a difference in the world abd at national, state, city or community level.

The format of the competition is such that students, guided by their teachers and mentors, will describe, conceptualise, and build on an innovative idea in selected areas of social importance. Students can further give shape to their ideas through prototyping and by demonstrate them.

After being sieved through an eminent jury from renowned organisations and institutions, the best teams will get awarded with prizes worth Rs 5 lakhs. Along with this, the enthusiastic participants get to attend workshops on problem-solving and innovative 21st-century technologies. The participants can also get incubated JKLU’s Incubation Centre.

The University intends this Challenge to also be a platform to bring to life several ideas and innovation that will transcend this initiative and may well lead to social and commercial start-ups spurring community-benefitting entrepreneurship.