With the challenges presented by COVID-19 continuously mutating, the students of city based Parul University have been constantly innovating. The University has been pushing forward an intense entrepreneurship and innovation agenda, all in the efforts of providing practical solutions to the problems presented by COVID-19. In recognition of their efforts numerous student and faculty teams from the University have received start-up grants under the Student Open Innovation Challenge (SOIC) by SSIP, Government of Gujarat, entrepreneurship initiatives. In the recent COVID-19 start-up challenge presented by SOIC, 15 Students teams of the University received grants out of a total of 36 shortlisted students from Universities around the State. The winners were declared in recognition of their ability to develop and innovate ideas which have the highest form of utility towards alleviating the challenges presented by this pandemic.

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