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Transformative Education for Sustainable Social Impact (TESSI)
Our Focus Areas
Sundarbans, May 2019
Gather Insights by Practicing Empathy, Observation, and Interviewing.
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RuTAG Center IIT Delhi, October, 2019
Build Scrappy Prototypes to Learn About Unmet Needs
School of Rural Technology Development, IIT Guwahati,
January 2020
Gather inspiration-inspire new thinking by discovering what people really need.
Advanced Program on Social Entrepreneurship supported by Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, On 22.02.2023.
Test to Learn—Refine ideas by gathering feedback and experimenting forward.
Workshop on Frugality, Innovation at IIT Roorkee from 09.03.2023 to 10.03.2023.
Use Research to Understand the Past, Present, and Future
IIT Kharagpur - Lehigh University
Transformative Education for Sustainable Social Impact (TESSI) Institute
The Transformative Education for Sustainable Social Impact (TESSI) Institute is a one-week interdisciplinary workshop designed to empower faculty with the expertise and tools needed to reshape their courses and curricula in response to global grand challenges. Rooted in the principles of creative inquiry and the praxis of Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship, the TESSI Institute offers educators an innovative framework for crafting curricula that engage students in authentic, real-world projects, where they co-create innovative, practical, and sustainable solutions that address the needs of vulnerable populations and communities facing social, economic, and environmental challenges.
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Transformative Education for Sustainable Social Impact (TESSI) Institute
What a fantastic first week of the Transformative Education for Sustainable Social Impact (TESSI) Institute! It was full of motivation, collaboration, and education! It was remarkable and inspiring to see the unity and excitement among the varied educators—scientists, engineers, artists, humanists, and business experts—committed to altering courses for a sustained impact.
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