Calling all innovators! James Dyson Award 2022 offering Rs 5 lakh for Indian winners
India Today
The James Dyson Award 2022, a student design competition is now open for entries. Indian winners will receive Rs 5 lakh to put towards their innovations. Check details here.
If you are a budding innovator and a student designer, you can apply for the James Dyson Award, an annual student design competition run by Dyson’s charity is now open and accepting submissions from young inventors.
After receiving an impressive array of entries in recent years, the award is increasing its prize money to support the crucial first steps of entrepreneurship. This year’s national winners, to be announced in September, will receive £5,000 (approx. INR 5 lakhs) towards developing their invention.
To date, the competition has awarded more than 285 inventions with prize money.
Since 2005, the James Dyson Award has challenged entrepreneurial undergraduates and recent graduates of engineering and design, to ‘Design something that solves a problem’. Purposely broad and open-ended, the brief tasks students to take on big global problems.
Past winners have found solutions to plastic recycling accessibility, excessive blood loss from knife wounds, and improving at-home medical diagnostics.
Sir James Dyson chooses the competition’s global winners; they receive vital funding and high-profile recognition key first steps to take their ideas into real life practical application.
The best inventions are often the simplest, providing clear and intelligent solutions to real-world problems.
