NLSIU: MPP Students Win Mock Policy Roundtable Competition

The students from the Master’s Programme in Public Policy (MPP) NLSIU have won the Mock Policy Roundtable Competition organised by the Centre for Civil Society (CCS) and DST- Centre for Policy Research (IISc Bangalore). 

The Mock Policy Roundtable Competition was organised by the Centre for Civil Society (CCS) and DST- Centre for Policy Research (IISc Bangalore) on the occasion of CCS’ Silver Foundation Year Celebration at the Bangalore International Centre in August. The students from NLSIU Master’s Programme in Public Policy (MPP) have won the competition.

Mock Policy Roundtable Competition Details

The competition was divided into two rounds. During the first round, teams were asked to submit a policy pitch assuming the role of a preferred stakeholder group on the given pitch: “Are academia and industry interests sufficiently aligned to synergise efforts to foster innovation in India? Do industry-academia linkages aid in fostering innovation?”. Five teams were shortlisted for the next round.

The MPP team was allotted the ‘Civil Society stakeholder group’ for the final round. The final round saw an engaged debate on the relevance and impact of Industry-Academia linkages between the five key stakeholders of the science-policy ecosystem i.e Policymakers, International Organisations, Scientists/Academicians, Industry Leaders and Civil Society represented by students from esteemed institutions such as IIIT Bangalore and IISc Bangalore.

The competition was judged by a highly distinguished and reputed panel composed of Dr Mohua Chakraborty (Policy Fellow at DST-CPR IISC Bangalore) and Dr Shagun Batra (Senior Tech Specialist at Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor, GoI).

On being declared as the winner, the team said, "The day of the competition was intellectually stimulating starting with the keynote address and a panel discussion. The mock policy roundtable was filled with exciting dialogues and debates between the different stakeholders on their models of sustainability, funding, and solutions for fostering innovation through Academia-Industry partnership. As students from a non-science background, we were elated to find out that our arguments and policy recommendation stood the strongest and won us the competition."

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