EDII – IEDP

Entrepreneurship Development Institute, Government of Tamil Nadu, is promoting creation of Entrepreneurial & Innovative ecosystems in Universities / Colleges / Polytechnics / ITIs. EDI is collaborating with WF-NEN to train and orient management and faculty in learning by doing methodologies and also in bringing in online Entrepreneurship learning to college campuses.

Innovation in Entrepreneurship Development Program will use a HUB and SPOKES model. Each College Entrepreneurship & Innovation Hub will support around 20-40 colleges. Centre for Entrepreneurship Development, Anna University has been selected as Hub for conducting activities in Chennai region to implement IEDP program where two faculties will be trained for three days using NEN’s online course material. There will be a half day Top Management Program for the Chairman / Principal of each institution, preceding the Faculty Training. The trained faculty will in turn undertake the training to about 100 students of spoke institutions supported by a Field Coordinator of CED, Anna University. There is no fee for all these arrangements from the spoke institutions. As of now, 85 Institutions are attached with CED Anna University, getting benefitted through IEDP program. Successful implementation of the program is based on structured set of activities on campus, ideation, opportunity evaluation and selection, and most importantly, management involvement in the whole process.

Selection of colleges will be based on the advisory committee recommendations, largely centered on the willingness and commitment of applicant institutions. An online form has been provided for colleges to register their interest in the EDI web-site at http://editn.in/pages/view/college-iedp