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Hult Prize On-Campus Organized At the Institute of Forestry

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27th November 2020, Kathmandu

The final event of the Hult Prize On-campus program at IOF was successfully organized. On November 24, 2020. 14 teams from IOF, Pokhara, IOF, Hetauda, and KaFCol participated in the competition and pitched their ideas based on the Hult Prize challenge for 2020/21 ‘Food for Good: Transforming food into a vehicle for change’ in the event finale.

Team Amrit of IOF, Pokhara Campus was the On-Campus winner grabbing the Rs. 10,000 prize while also qualifying for the Hult Prize regionals.

Given the current COVID scenario, the event had to shift towards the digital platform, being organized on Zoom Meetings.

The meeting room was hosted by the Institute of Forestry, Hetauda Campus with the event being started at 9:30 and lasting nearly 6 hours. The Hult Prize On-Campus organizing committee members of IOF, Urusha Lamsal, Anusha Shrestha, and JyotiDhakal moderated the event while the Campus Director, Aayush Bhattarai passed the vote of thanks and concluded the event.

The event saw a panel of 7 judges which includes Bishnu Karki from merojob, Nepal’s No. 1 Jobsite, Madan Lamsal, Editor-in-Chief of the Arthik Abhiyan National daily and New Business Age Monthly, Bibek Dahal, a renowned social entrepreneur from Biratnagar who’s associated with OB Media Pvt. Ltd. and Nepmeds, Kiran Timsina, co-founder of Urban Girl, Sujan Raja Shrestha, Director of Sovereign Education Network Pvt. Ltd., Niraj Karmacharya, founder and Managing director of Jaguar Investments Pvt. Ltd, and Sunita Nhemaphuki, chairperson and co-founder of R & D Innovative Solution.

Karna Shakya, forestry turned hotel-entrepreneur who owns a series of eco-hotels all over the country, was the chief guest for the event.

Staying for the full event, Shakya also delivered a speech on biodiversity and conservation.

Dr. Maheshwor Dhakal, Joint Secretary at Ministry of Forest and Soil Conservation, Nepal, Krishna Raj Tiwari, Dean at Institute of Forestry, and Susan Dangol, Hult Prize Nepal Community builder were the special guests in the event.

The Hult Prize at IOF partnered with Maker Valley as an Innovative Partner and with Chandragiri News and ICTFrame as Media and Outreach Partner. Maker Valley provided the On-Campus participants of the Institute of Forestry training on Design Thinking to prepare them for the On-Campus event.

Hosted jointly by the Hult Prize Foundation, Hult Business School and the United Nations, the Hult Prize competition invites miscellaneous innovators from various universities all around the world to tackle a constraining social issue.

The students participating in the competition are asked to devise an idea about a scalable, sustainable social enterprise that can overcome the challenge put forward by the Hult Prize Foundation.

The 4-tier competition prizes the best idea out of all the on-campus champions and wildcard entries a US$ 1 million global startup prize as its anchor activity while also bringing impact-focused programs, events and, training to over a million students globally, creating a pathway for youth everywhere to take action to build a better world.

The Hult Prize Competition has seen the involvement of over 50 on-campuses in Nepal this term, a skyrocketed number as compared to the previous’ 10.

Given the increased numbers of on-campus champions and with some possible wild-card additions as well, the Hult Prize Nepal Community is planning to facilitate the Hult Prize regional participants with acceleratory pieces of training and workshops, according to Hult Prize Nepal Community Builder, Susan Dangol.

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Nepal Commerce Campus To Host The Hult Prize 2020/21

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21 August 2020, Kathmandu

Nepal Commerce Campus will be hosting its first On-Campus Program for the Hult Prize in the first fortnight of December 2020. All the students studying bachelors and masters are encouraged to take part in the event.

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“Bringing Hult Prize to NCC is our attempt not just to make students come up with a business plan but also make them realize that they can make an impact and change the world.” says the Campus Director, Ms. Prakriti Pokharel. Hult Prize, also known as “Nobel Prize for Students” will feature its OnCampus program in different colleges all around Nepal.

The theme for this year’s Hult Prize is “Food for Good- Transforming food into a vehicle for change”. The goal is to create jobs, stimulate economies, reimagine supply chains, and improve outcomes for 10,000,000 people by 2030.

The students of any college/university are eligible to take part in the OnCampus program with a team of 3-4 members. The winner of the OnCampus Program will qualify for the Regional Summits in the cities like Kuala Lumpur, Islamabad, Bangkok, etc. with the liberty to choose any city to represent. Similarly, the winner of each Regional Summit will move on to the summer business incubator with mentorship, advisory, and strategic planning to kick-start their social venture. The teams will eventually move on to the last round, and one winning team will receive 1,000,000 Million USD to execute their business plan.

About Hult Prize

Since 2009, the Hult Prize has been a benchmark program for social entrepreneurs. Each year, Hult prize issues a big, bold challenge aligned with a significant market opportunity inspiring students from over 121 countries to solve it’s the most significant problem. The Hult Prize Foundation, in partnership with the United Nations, has been organizing the annual event awarding one startup with 1 Million USD from around the globe. Every year the theme changes to create an impact on the world. This year’s theme is intending to solve the world food crisis.

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School Of Management To Host The Hult Prize At Tribhuvan University

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The world’s most significant student competition, “Hult Prize,” comes to School of Management, Tribhuvan University whereby students tackle United Nations “For Us By Us: The Global Youth Unemployment” Challenge. We are calling entrepreneurs to create a viable start-up and compete for $1 million in seed capital.

 

The Hult Prize is a start-up accelerator for social entrepreneurship that brings together the brightest college and university students from around the globe to solve the world’s problem. The Hult Prize aims to launch a start-up enterprise that can radically change the world and breed the next generation of social entrepreneurs. In partnership with the United Nations, the Hult Prize is hosting college and university events across the globe in search of the next game-changing start-up. It is a global movement of student leaders that have an objective of inspiring youth to change the world through business. Student teams compete around the world for a chance to secure US $ 1 Million start-up funding to launch a sustainable social venture.

Ahmad Ashkar, CEO and Founder of the Hult Prize, attributes the success of the competition to the shift in the global economy and the millennial generation’s refusal to live in a world with inequality. “We are giving entrepreneurs from around the world a platform to innovate and revolutionize the way we think about servicing the disadvantaged,” Ashkar commented.

In the words of President Clinton, “The Hult Prize is a wonderful example of the creative cooperation needed to build a world with shared opportunity, shared responsibility, and shared prosperity, and each year I look forward to seeing the many outstanding ideas the competition produces.”

The theme for this year is: “For Us By Us: The Global Youth Unemployment.” It invites ideas that can solve global youth unemployment and give meaningful work to 10,000 youth within the next decade. The past few decades have shown us the vast utilization of the principles under four categories of employment opportunities – learning, matching, sourcing and creating, through various multinational companies like Amazon, McDonald, Uber, etc. However, these categories are not exhaustive, and there can be even more creative ideologies, approaches and strategies to unite and garner the unemployed youths into an intricately woven business model, and to impart them is the primary objective of this year’s challenge of Hult Prize. This event aims to develop the internal capabilities of the students and transform them into the change makers solving the world’s problem as stated. We, thus, believe that this is a tremendous opportunity to be involved in developing competent future global leaders from Nepal.

Hult Prize at TU, SOM Final Event is a platform for students of Tribhuvan University to earn their golden ticket to regional finals of the worldwide competition. We ask student entrepreneurs to create viable start-up centered on the theme of the Hult, and the winning team will be fast-tracked to compete at one of the twenty-six regional finals events around the world, bypassing the general application which annually receives over 20,000 applicants from more than 350 colleges and universities in over 150 countries.

The Hult Prize regional competition will take place in March 2019 in 25  different locations. Following the regional finals, one winning team from each host city will attend a summer business accelerator, where participants will receive mentorship, advisory and strategic planning as they create prototypes and set-up to launch their new social business. A final round competition will take place in September 2019, where one winning team will be selected as the winner and will be awarded the US$ 1,000,000.

It is a pleasure and privilege to invite all the students of Tribhuvan University to our school to participate in the “Hult Prize Competition.” We encourage dynamic, sustainable teams from different faculty for participation. We have compelling judges and partners and topping it all; students will get national investors if their idea is worth implementing.

Eligibility:

  • Open to all students of four faculties of Tribhuvan University viz. Faculty of Management, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Education, and Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Students are invited to form a team of 3-4 (Alumni and faculty are not allowed to be official team members)
  • A student can be a mix of programs and colleges
  • No entry charge
  • To register for the competition, fill out the form at com/Tribhuvan.

Event Timeline:

Application Call: November 14, 2018

Application Close: Priority deadline December 2, 2018, Date: December 5, 2018

Campus Final: December 9, 2018

Regional Finals: March 2019

Accelerator program: July – August 2019

Hult Prize global final: September 2019

For further details, contact: [email protected] 

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Registration Begins For Hult Prize 2018/19

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Hult Prize On Nepalese Campus Final”, from the Hult Prize Foundation at Tribhuvan University, School of Management (SOMTU).
It is a global movement of student leaders that have the objective of inspiring youth to change the world through business. Hult Prize is known as the ‘Nobel Prize’ for students and is endorsed by the United Nations and supported by The Clinton Foundation. This event will take place at the SOMTU premises located in Kirtipur, on 10th December 2018, from 9 am to 4 pm. This year’s theme is ‘Unemployment: Creating employment for 10,000 people in a decade’ and the students will pitch their ideas.

The Hult Prize at TU, SOM aims to encourage and engage all departments and colleges affiliated with TU. The student outreach is extraordinary as more than 4,00,000 students from Tribhuvan University will be a part of this competition. The promotional events will be taking place in various colleges and departments of TU all over Nepal.

This will result in many enthusiastic students participating in the development and teams bringing new and innovative ideas to solve the current issue of unemployment and provide meaningful work. The winner of the intra- university event will automatically advance to compete in one of the regional finals in next March. One winning team from each significant host city will then move onto a summer business incubator, where they will receive Guidance, advisory & strategic planning as they are creating prototypes and set-up to launch their new social business.

To know more about Hult Prize at Tribhuvan University, School of Management, and to register your team for participation do click the link: hultprizeat.com/tribhuvan