Ayurveda Dhara
Competition for Students

  • First Prize: Rs. 1,00,000

  • Second Prize: Rs. 75,000

  • Third Prize: Rs. 50,000

Prizes

Who can participate?

Ideas are solicited for an Ayurveda-inspired application in the area of human health, animal wellbeing or agriculture.

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Goal

To encourage UG and PG students to leverage Ayurveda for 21st century innovation for healthcare.

UG & PG students studying ayurveda, siddha, unani, yoga, sowarigpa, public health, natural sciences, engineering, medicine, veterinary sciences or agriculture. 

 

Should be a student at the time of submission. Those completing internships as part of their Bachelor’s degree are eligible to apply.

Jury

All entries will be evaluated by a panel of at least 3 judges based on the category of innovation.

 

Judges:

 

  • Dr Aniruddha Joshi 

  • Prof P Balaram 

  • Dr P M Unnikrishanan

  • Prof M S Valiathan

  • Prof Muralidhar Sharma

  • Dr Narendra Pendse

Examples of ideas under four broad categories

1. Non-Digital Product

  • Herbal formulations

  • Herbo-mineral formulations

  • Health Foods [AyurAhaar]

  • Nutraceutical

  • Cosmeceutical

 

2. Digital Product 

  • Data mining of Ayurveda pharmacopeia 

  • Assessment of phenotypes for diagnosis and personalised medicine

  • App for image based stool, urine analysis.

  • Image-based evaluation of rasapanchaka of foods 

  • Database architecture for personalised nutrition 

  • Ritucharya and Dinacharya for wellbeing optimised for desha/ climate. 

  • Herbal and lifestyle based advice for veterinary self-care by pet owners. (dog/cat/fish).

  • Animate and visualise key Ayurveda concepts for common people to understand.

  • Ayurveda for community health: Primary health care through home remedies, medicinal herbs, pregnancy, lactation care.

  • Enabling technology for traditional and tribal healers to participate in healthcare ecosystem

  • Medicinal plant ID and relationship to dravya. 

  • App to capture local and tribal health traditions/ foods. 

 

3. Process Engineering

  • To improve stability/ preservation of foods naturally. 

  • Increase efficacy of medicine effectiveness

  • Biomedical engineering solutions for Ayurveda panchakarma treatments. 

 

4. Ayurveda Biology

  • Uncovering mode of action of an Ayurveda product, therapy or process 

  • Adapting Randomised Control Trials for testing Ayurveda treatment regimens

How to participate?

  1. Register your intention here. 

  2. Working in teams [any number] is encouraged as well as association with mentors. Interdisciplinary teams will be prioritised. Contact [email protected] if you need help to form a team. 

  3. Prepare a slide deck of 10 slides in the template shared below. Convert it to PDF. 

  4. When you are ready with your slide deck, upload your slide deck using this form.

  5. Submit your slide deck latest by 9am, 19 September 2022. 

  6. Slide decks that do not conform to the template will be rejected without further communication.

  7. Short-listed ideas will be presented at the Dhara-National Conference on Vision Ayurveda 2047.

Slide Deck Format

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