Sanjivani EDP Cell

                                   (Stay Connected, Grow Together)                            

Chairman & our Inspiration: Hon. Shri.Nitin S. Kolhe, SRES, Kopargaon

Chief Advisor: Hon.Amit N. Kolhe, Managing Trustee, SRES, Kopargaon

Strategic Planning Advisor: Dr. Shantam Shukla

Mentor & Execution Advisor: Dr.A.G.Thakur, Director Sanjivani COE, Kopargaon

E-cell office bearers / faculty team:

 Students Core Committee Members of EDP Cell: Ac Year 2022-23

 Entrepreneurship Development Program Cell (EDP Cell) Information:

   The EDP Cell at Sanjivani has been established in 2019-20 to motivate and inculcate the entrepreneurship skills amongst the students. The main aim of this cell is “To produce entrepreneurs with higher leadership qualities using innovations and technological advances. Students should solve the social and society problems to make the life of common man simple and easy. This cell work on other important objective i.e Sanjivani students should be job provider and not a job seekers.

To create awareness among the students on various facets of entrepreneurship is also a key functioning of this cell. Students should choose opt entrepreneurship as an alternative career choice. To achieve this, EDP Cell continuously organizes the expert sessions and mentoring programs from industry persons, successful alumni, leading entrepreneurs and startup founders to create entrepreneurial awareness among the students and faculty.

Objectives of EDP Cell:

• Let student recognize entrepreneurship as a career option
• To promote the creative thinking and develop communication, marketing, management and entrepreneurial skills among students.
• 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.
• Create ownership attitude amongst students.
• Identify and develop the students who are willing to take risk in their career choices.

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.
• Promote Entrepreneurial activities initiated by IIC, NISP, i-2-e by SPPU, Startup India, SIH & also promote the similar initiatives by AICTE, UGC, SPPU, etc.

Proposed EDP Activities of EDP Cell:

To Enhance Entrepreneurship, Startups and Ventures:

Objectives: Student should recognize Entrepreneurship as a Career Choice- Nurture the entrepreneurship skills amongst the students 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, etc.
• 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

Data on students benefitted:

Following is the list of students who turned as entrepreneurs. Frequent awareness program on entrepreneurship activities and continuous mentoring help the students to develop the business attitude and mind-set towards business.

As per our objectives “Let student recognize entrepreneurship as a career” is now coming true and many students started their career as an entrepreneur. In future this number will surly increase. Following are few successes stories in which students have started their own business and becomes self-independent. Many students getting continuous guidance from the mentor faculty in their business. Specially in MBA, many students have started their own business in final year.

List of entrepreneurs

                       Success stories of Startups and Product development: