Snowa Award 1

On the one hand, many theses are defined every year in master’s and doctorate degrees with many topics that are not normally used in practical applications in the industry. On the other hand, in order to solve the challenges facing it in the field of research and development of home appliance products, Snowatec Technology Center and Innovation Factory needs scientific, precise and creative solutions that are in the capable minds of researchers and elites of this region. In this regard, according to the report of the innovation department, Snowatec Technology and Technology Center held the Snowa Award event in the summer of 2022 in order to eliminate this gap.
In this Snowatec event, he raised his current issues in the atmosphere of academic elites and asked master’s and doctoral students to choose the topic of their theses from among the topics presented on the Snowatec website and send their program and solution to the Snowatec award event. Participate . Therefore, 42 people registered in 16 different subjects.
This event was held in order to achieve the following goals:
1- The development of the brand of Entekhab Industrial Group in specialized and knowledge-based forums
2- Outsourcing industry research issues to academic elites and knowledge-based technology companies
3- Discovery and networking of people and technology companies based in the innovation and technology ecosystem
4- Creating a competition to identify expert and committed teams for future cooperation
5- Designing facilitating mechanisms for efficient interaction between active agents in the process of transferring knowledge, innovation and technology between internal and external sources.
Submitted projects are classified according to the type of university and field as follows:

 

 

 

 

The judging of submitted designs took place in three stages:
1- Resume judging:
After sending the resume by the applicant, the applicant’s unit checked the resume and if approved, asked the applicant for a proposal.
2- Referencing the proposal:
In the next step, the requesting unit reviewed the individual’s proposal, and if it agreed with the student’s proposed plan, it informed the student about this issue.
3- Face-to-face presentation: After the approval of the proposal, the student met with the requesting unit to fully clarify the issue and proposal. At this stage, university professors were also invited to give advice to the applicant units in judging this plan. These meetings were held with the presence of students, applicant units, university professors and representatives of the innovation team.
From the series of evaluation criteria, the following can be mentioned:
1) Accurate and correct definition of the problem along with its time steps
2) The importance and necessity of the issue
3) The priority of the issue
4) Appropriate time forecast
5) Appropriate budget estimation
6) Determining the partner network
7) Appropriate communication channel
In the end, 6 projects were selected in the Snowa Prize category and 2 projects were selected in the Research Award category.

– Winners of Snowa Award

 

 

 

– Winners of the research award section

 

 

It should be noted that after selecting the desired projects, the implementation process of the project was planned for two years.

First year: awarding the choice industrial group award in the form of an event through the support of specialized festivals and conferences

The second year: awarding the award of the industrial group of choice in the form of a targeted problem solving process to the elite community and researchers