Category: Competition

Foreign Policy & Diplomacy Quiz Contest – 2020 is the first-of-its-kind, unique and online quiz contest for students from grade 6 to 12 to excel and ameliorate their global skills, knowledge of India’s foreign policy, relations between two countries and profound information about focus country’s foreign policy, its success stories, its people, culture, history, gastronomy etc.

The quiz contest helps students to be globalise and learn in depth about global agenda, India’s foreign policy, global partnership and relations, diplomacy and profound knowledge of focus country’s history, society, culture, festival, gastronomy, geography etc. and its foreign policy, key engagements and success stories. It helps students to think about Foreign Service and help them to choose their career as a diplomat and serve the nations. Moreover, it helps students to express their knowledge and understanding in global conferences, MUN like programs, national & international forums and to become globally competence & highly accomplished individual.

Focus Country – [Year 2020]: Latvia

In Collaboration with: Embassy of the Republic of Latvia, India

Quiz Mode: Online Participation
Eligibility: Class 6 to 12
Participation Fee: ₹ 160/student for schools in India
Number of Questions: 55 questions
Total Score: 200 points

Awards

• 10 winners will be invited and accommodated at embassy in Delhi for a day to explore, understand and learn real diplomatic skills [Top 6 students from (class 6 to 9) and Top 4 students from (class 10 to 12) will be selected]
• 10 winners will be felicitated with Latvian Souvenir
• 10 winners will be felicitated with medals/plaque and the book “Rapid Vedic Mathematics” authored by CN Patel
• Certificate of Participation for all participating students
• Gold, Silver and Bronze medals for top 3 students from each school that encourages minimum 50 students

Last Date: Midnight (IST) until 15th September 2020 (Quiz is open and you can take it anytime before 15th Sept)

Reading Material: Reading material is integrated online and can be accessible it before taking the quiz, once you prepared, you can take the quiz.

Participation Guideline

Step 1	All participating students must register HERE to generate password
Step 2	Login and Select the Quiz “Foreign Policy and Diplomacy Quiz Contest -2020
Step 3	Participating though School Submit participation fee ₹ 160, your name and email to your school coordinator Participating as an Individual Pay participation fee online. Multiple options and local currency are available
Step 4	Read reference material and once prepared, start the quiz
Step 5	Download Certificate of Participation; once you finish the quiz Results will be announced and winners will be contacted for felicitation ceremony

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Visit: www.online.ptglobaledu.com/fpdqc OR www.latvia.ptglobaledu.com/fpdqc

Email: ptglobaledu@gmail.com 

The 12th National Biennial Competition for Green Grassroots Unaided Technological Innovations, Ideas & Outstanding Traditional Knowledge.
NATIONAL INNOVATION FOUNDATION (NIF), an autonomous body of the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India aims to recognize, respect and reward grassroots technological innovators and traditional knowledge experts.

The last date for submission of entries for the 12th biennial competition is March 31, 2021

NIF solicits entries of unaided technological innovations and traditional knowledge developed at grassroots by an individual or group comprising farmers, artisans, fishermen and women, slum dwellers, workshop mechanics, students, local communities etc. The innovations can be in agriculture, machines, processes or products for farm/non-farm operations, household utility, transportation, energy conservation or generation, reduction in drudgery, development of plant varieties, development of herbal remedies for human/ animal problems, or any other low cost sustainable green technologies. These should be unaided/unsupervised and an outcome of one’s own creativity, without any technical support from external agencies. Special awards will be given for innovations and outstanding traditional knowledge of/for women. There will be prizes to recognize outstanding innovations by/for people with physical disabilities as well. Creative ideas for innovative technologies, which may not have been developed into prototypes are also welcome. Children in or out of school are also encouraged to send their original ideas for the competition.

Communities developing People’s Biodiversity Register (PBR) or People’s Knowledge Register (PKR) are encouraged to register/link their knowledge base with the National Register at NIF.

THE AWARDS

The best three innovations will be awarded Rs 500,000 (National First), Rs 300,000 (National Second) and Rs 100,000 (National Third) each in different categories. NIF may also give a Life Time Achievement Award of Rs 750,000 to an outstanding innovator with demonstrated lifelong creativity.

There will be several consolation prizes of Rs 10,000 each in different categories depending upon the incremental inventiveness and potential social and environmental impact. In addition, individuals and/or organizations that make extraordinary contributions in scouting grassroots innovations and traditional knowledge may also get recognition and awards worth Rs 100,000, Rs 50,000 and Rs 25,000 besides recognition to many others.

Three most outstanding innovative ideas may be given prizes of Rs 50,000, 25,000 and 15,000. Certificate of appreciation may be given to herbal and traditional knowledge holders whose claims may not have been validated but whose contributions are worth emulating for the society.

The outstanding entries will also be widely publicized in the Honey Bee Newsletter and through other media. Summary and/or details of the selected innovative practices and traditional knowledge practices included in the Register will be displayed at the websites of NIF with the Prior Informed Consent (unless such knowledge is already in the public domain) of the innovators/knowledge providers.

Who can Apply

Individuals, from the unorganized sectors of the society, who have achieved distinction in improving quality and productivity without the aid of formal institutions, are invited to participate in the National Biennial Competition for Unaided Green Grassroots Ideas, Innovations and Outstanding Traditional Knowledge. Ideas for innovative technologies which have not yet become products are also welcome.

NIF is very keen that women knowledge holders/innovators participate in this campaign in as large a number as possible. We have had rather limited participation from women in the past and we wish to rectify this situation with the cooperation of groups working with women in the unorganized sector.

For more information:

• Visit – OFFICIAL WEBSITE
• Email: campaign@nifindia.org