Winter School 2025
Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad
Winter School 2025: Stages and Timelines
Application Submission
The 11th Edition of Winter School, hosted by the Right to Education Resource Centre (RTERC), is now open for registration! Join us for an impactful experience where you'll explore critical education policies, engage with experts, and work on strategies to make education more inclusive and equitable. Winter School is more than just a learning opportunity—it's a chance to drive real change. Register now to be part of this milestone edition and make a difference. Registration / Application Link: https://forms.gle/L9MeSoGKFAWwpES78
All that you need to know about Winter School 2025
The Right To Education Resource Centre (RTERC) — 11th Edition Winter School:
- RTERC at IIM Ahmedabad is thrilled to present the 11th Edition of Winter School, a 4-day immersive platform designed to help you understand and challenge the dominant ideas about education, social segregation, and power structures in our society.
- Through sessions with leading practitioners, academicians, and activists from across India and beyond, you will explore real-world challenges and develop practical solutions.
- The program concludes with participants proposing an impact-driven project for the development sector.
- A post-program practicum and a reflective report are required for the Certificate of Completion.
Theme:
- This year, our theme 'Learning, Livelihoods & the Future of Opportunity' dives deep into today's critical challenges.
- We’ll dissect the broken link between education and economic outcomes, explore policy solutions for equitable social mobility, and debate the dual role of technology as both a powerful enabler and a source of new inequality.
Program Duration:
- December 25th - December 28th, 2025
Note:
- The application (Google Form) link contains all participation details. Only registrations submitted through this link will be considered valid. Registrations solely on Unstop will not be considered for evaluation.
What to expect - Step by Step:
- Fill the registration form.
- Complete the assigned tasks and submit them for evaluation.
- Wait for the results - shortlisted participants will be invited to the 4-day Winter School at IIM Ahmedabad.
- Attend the Winter School: four days of expert seminars, hands-on workshops, mentoring by on-field experts, and action-oriented policy sessions designed for on-ground pilots.
- Post-program practicum: choose a policy or problem area, conduct field research (recommended ~10 days), and submit your practicum report to receive the RTERC certificate.
Who should participate:
- Students, working professionals, researchers, scholars, and policy enthusiasts who want to move beyond discussion and work on real-world, impact-driven solutions in the education and development space.
Important dates & deadlines?
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15 Nov'25, 12:58 AM IST Registration Deadline
Contact the organisers
Send queries to organizersAbout Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad
- The decade following independence in 1947 witnessed a surge of innovative ideas to create a fledgling independent nation into a model democratic republic pledged to growth with equality. The establishment of the IIMA (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad) was the result of one such innovative initiative.
- Led by eminent industrialist and philanthropist Shri Kasturbhai Lalbhai and a space scientist Dr. Vikram Sarabhai, and proactively supported by Dr. Jivraj Mehta, the then Chief Minister of Gujarat, a group of enlightened individuals set up IIM Ahmedabad in 1961. This group ably wove together a coalition of five actors - the governments at the centre and the state, local industrialists, the Ford Foundation and the Harvard Business School, to establish the foundations of the Institute.
- IIM Ahmedabad was set up as an institution that would be managed by a Society, the IIMA Society, created under the Societies Act.
- A Board of Governors, constituted by the IIMA Society, was to run the Institute; the Board would have representation from all the relevant constituencies so as to reflect the multifarious needs of a developing nation. IIM Ahmedabad was therefore conceived as a Board-managed institution, free from the exclusive control of any one constituency. Thus, an integral part of the DNA of IIM Ahmedabad is operational freedom.
- IIM Ahmedabad has been consistently ranked as the premier management school in the country by several national agencies.
- IIM Ahmedabad programmes are also ranked highly in several international rankings.
- In 2008, IIM Ahmedabad became the country's 1st B-School to which EFMD (European Foundation for Management Development) awarded EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System) accreditation.