IMER Students talk about EA's 2nd Sem Course

EA recently ran it's 2nd semester course, 'Developing Core Entrepreneurial Principles', at IMER, Belgaum.

Here is a video featuring Rutuja Mane and Ratika Mirji, both 2nd semester students at IMER, talking about their experience in the course.

Course on Grassroots innovation for MBA students

Entrepreneurship Academy conducted last course on Grassroots innovation for MBA students in Belgaum on 4 December. Students visited the social enterprise, Mitan, to see a local example of grassroots innovation and its impact on rural communities. Mitan creates livelihood opportunities for rural women in Gokak district. They are producing handicraft products and exporting to other countries. Mr Gopi Krishna, founder of Mitan, provided insightful information about how Mitan combines knowledge of local traditions and handicrafts with business principles to create a social impact.

Students also participated in a session where they learned how they can utilize the Right to Information Act (RTI). Mr. Krishna, the Program Manager of Lead, led a very engaging session and the students were excited that they now understand how RTI could be beneficial to them.
Additionally, students attended interactive sessions on IT skills for aspiring entrepreneurs and innovative resource management. The course concluded with a final question paper to ensure students grasped the critical concepts from the course.

Course on Innovation and creativity for BBA students

Creativity leads to Innovation, innovation leads to entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship Academy organized two days course on Innovation and Creativity for EA partners. Course has been hosted by Oxford College of management, Hubli.
Course stated on 22nd and concluded on 23rd of November. Fist day started with game called Pully making activity. In this activity participant are asked to create Pully with available resources in the college campus. It was very creative and interesting session for them.
Soon after the activity participant under gone a session called ‘Who am I’. This activity help hem to understand his/her own self and built confidence in all participant.

Oxford College IT Class

Oxford College had an IT training on the communication and Social networking tools, on 20-09-2010 in Deshpande Centre for social Entrepreneurship. These tools are very useful to set the communication level high, these tools will be used by them in communication with the E A team as well as their faculties. E Cell members have got this opportunity to gain this extra knowledge which can be helpful for them in their entrepreneurial thinking, the tools they learned are useful for their academics also.

E A Team wish Oxford college E Cell members All the Best for their Future.

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Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande meets with faculty, directors & E-Cell members.

On 12th April, Desh met with EA’s E-Cell members and faculty at DCSE. During the event, Desh gave awards to students from GBS (Hubli) for their involvement in the 2K Challenge. Following the awards’ ceremony, one student from each school gave a brief presentation about their E-Cell activities and interest in engaging in entrepreneurial activities through the E-Cell. Desh then addressed the group with an inspirational talk on pursuing an entrepreneurial life. Below are some students’ feedback on what they learned from the session.

• You are the CEO of your own life
• Learn not just to be an entrepreneur, but also learn to lead an entrepreneurial life.
• Life is full of opportunities.
• Enjoy playing in every stage of life.
• Don’t give up or comprise one’s passion to be something.
• Entrepreneurs must have the guts to face Uncertainties..

IT trainings for faculty & students:

E-Cell members are engaging in trainings on IT applications for aspiring entrepreneurs. The first round of training covered a variety of areas, such as advanced Google applications, FaceBook and Blogs.
Through regular trainings, faculty members are developing advanced IT skills for academics. Trainings thus far have covered, advanced Google applications, FaceBook, Blogs, Dropbox, and advanced applications of Microsoft office suite.
EA plans to continually engage faculty and students in trainings to enhance their ability to utilize cutting edge IT applications in their work