Entrepreneurship Development Program Cell (EDP Cell)

General Information:

    The EDP Cell at Sanjivani has been established to motivate and nurture the entrepreneurship skills amongst the students of the college. The main aim of this cell is “To produce entrepreneurs with higher leadership qualities using innovations and technological advances to exploit potential awareness via becoming job givers not job seekers”. Also, to create awareness among faculty and students of institute about various facets of entrepreneurship as an alternative career option. To achieve this, EDP Cell continuously organizes the expert sessions from industry persons, successful alumni, leading entrepreneurs and startup founders to create entrepreneurial awareness among the students and faculty.

Objectives of EDP Cell:

• To promote the creative thinking and develop communication, marketing, management and entrepreneurial skills among students.
• To create awareness on entrepreneurship among the students and faculty.
• To inculcate the culture of innovation driven entrepreneurship.
• To act as an institutional mechanism for providing various facilities and services to the budding student entrepreneurs for the promotion of entrepreneurship.
• Convert ideas and innovations into marketable products or enterprise.
• Student should choose the entrepreneurship as an alternative career option.

Functions of EDP Cell

• To organize entrepreneurship awareness programs for the students.
• To target the innovative projects each year for new product development.
• Provide necessary guidance and escort services to the needy students to boost their idea or innovations to the next level.
• To arrange interaction with successful entrepreneurs, various professionals, potential customers and provide mentorship for student innovators.
• To conduct skill development training programs through expert agencies.

E-cell office bearers:

Role of this committee is to equip students with entrepreneurship skills and trigger their entrepreneurial / business idea to the next level. EDP Cell organizes entrepreneurial activities such as business idea pitching, talk show on entrepreneurship by successful entrepreneurs and boost the students to attend and complete various courses on entrepreneurship organized by the institute or external organizations.

E cell Students core Committee:

Student committee helping to organize the ED activities and working as helping hands for the faculty as well as students.

Proposed EDP Activities and Action Points:-

        To Enhance Entrepreneurship, Startups and Ventures

Objectives: Student should recognize Entrepreneurship as a Career Choice- Nurture the entrepreneurship skills amongst the students of the institution and to work on the attitude of the students from job seekers to job givers.

• Student Entrepreneurship Awareness Program (SEAP) - Organizing motivational sessions of successful entrepreneur / businessman / alumni entrepreneurs / startup owners to develop entrepreneurial abilities and skills among the students.
• Faculty Entrepreneurship Awareness Program (FEAP)- Every year one program for entrepreneurial skill boost among the faculty by arranging expert sessions / workshops on innovation in the technical fields / entrepreneurial skill boost trainings, technological product development, etc.
• Arranging the talk shows / Interviews- Arranging the talk shows / Interviews of the successful entrepreneur / businessman to know the real path of success, challenges faced and opportunities in the industrial sector.
• Organizing Idea Pitching Competition-
• Minimum one program on the annual basis to know the innovative idea that can be excel to possible enterprise / new product development / business / new startups.
• Create ownership and thereby entrepreneurship attitude amongst students.
• Incubation facility for new innovations, ideas, startups- Provide necessary platform and services to students for innovations.
• Entrepreneurship Engagement Program-
  • Promoting Entrepreneurship, New Product development (NPD), Entrepreneurship Proposal Development (EPD), Expert Support, Resource Mobilization, Business Venture Establishment and creation,
  • Visit the industries for product promotion programs.
  • Alumni Entrepreneur Database Development (AEDD)- Search the successful alumni entrepreneurs from each branch and connect them to boost the entrepreneurial activities and AEDD.
• Attend and arrange the workshops, STTPs, Trainings on Entrepreneurship and Innovations along with the faculty team under EDP cell.

Five yearly targets to strengthen the EDP cell activities