About Us
ABOUT YOUTH IDEATHON
In today’s fast-changing world, fostering an entrepreneurial mindset among college students is vital for India’s economic growth. ThinkStartup, in collaboration with the Management Entrepreneurship Professional Skills Council (MEPSC), introduces the COLLEGE YOUTH IDEATHON—a premier competition designed to ignite creativity and innovation among college students. This platform empowers youth to transform academic knowledge into innovative solutions and ventures through a multi-stage process of ideation, prototyping, and pitching ideas to experts.
ThinkStartup is India’s largest entrepreneurship education provider for teenagers. ThinkStartup offers structured entrepreneurship and leadership programs for school students from Class 4 to Class 12. These include Unlock.Teen, Unlock.Future, Young CEO Program, U18 Launch Pad and in-school Entrepreneurship Labs and Clubs
ABOUT THINKSTARTUP
ABOUT MEPSC
Management Entrepreneurship Professional Skills Council (MEPSC) is a Horizontal Sector Skills Council formed on 15th December 2015 under the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Govt of India, to bridge the employability gap. MEPSC focuses on job roles that are sector and industry agnostic. One of it’s key objectives is to promote entrepreneurship development across the country.
India’s higher education institutions are central to driving innovation and entrepreneurship in line with national priorities such as the Startup India mission, Atmanirbhar Bharat, and the New Education Policy (NEP 2020).
They act as a critical hub for nurturing creativity, fostering a culture of problem solving, and driving research-driven solutions to modern challenges.
College Youth Ideathon will encourage students to identify societal and industrial challenges, collaborate across disciplines, and develop solutions that not only address immediate issues but also pave the way for sustainable and scalable impact
THE BACKGROUND
College Youth Ideathon OBJECTIVES
The objectives of College Youth Ideathon are as below:
- Cultivate a “Job Creator’s Mindset” by fostering a culture of innovation, risk taking, and entrepreneurialism among college students.
- Nurture high potential student ideas with incubation support
- Inspire college students to think innovatively and embrace entrepreneurship.
- Encourage the development of prototypes and scalable solutions.
- Offer a platform for interdisciplinary collaboration and learning for college students
- Activate and foster a vibrant Entrepreneurial Ecosystem by recognizing and nurturing promising ideas with financial grants and incubation support.
- Bridge the gap between Academia and Industry by facilitating collaborations between students, faculty, industry mentors, and investors.
- Recognise efforts of motivated college teachers / mentors and institutions who are working behind the scenes to develop entrepreneurship in colleges