Entrepreneurship education offers a solution and prepares the youth to be responsible entrepreneurial thinkers by immersing them in real-life learning experience.

ABOUT E CELL

The institution aims in nourishing the students with entrepreneurial skills to provide a strong career foundation.
The Entrepreneurship Development cell was pioneered in the year 2003 with the motto to make the students as “Job creators rather than Job Seekers”.
EDC Certificate Course on a credit basis was sponsored by UGC in 2007 for 5 years. We accord permission to Self-help group members to promote their own products in our college from 2006 onwards.

Entrepreneurship education offers a solution and prepares the youth to be responsible entrepreneurial thinkers by immersing them in the real-life learning experience and build up the entrepreneurial ecosystem.
It is a notion that if 30% of the students who participate in entrepreneurship education will pave the way to start a business set up on their own and become more ambitious.
Institution plays a major role in building a strong nation by producing young and vibrant entrepreneurs who Contribute towards the economic growth of the country.

THE PROGRAMME IS DESIGNED TO

Encourage and Nurture the Talents
Provide the Resources in order to Earn in a Proactive and Realistic Environment
Build New Ethical Ideas and have Unique Recognition in the business scenario

PROGRAMME DOMAINS

Visual Learning - Industrial Visits
Auditory Learning - Theoretical perspective through an online course
Kinesthetic Learning - Awareness Camps, Motivational Program Training and E-stalls

OBJECTIVES OF EDC

To identify and equip the students with a required soft skill for effective organisation of an entrepreneurial business.
To develop competent entrepreneurs of tomorrow through personal counselling, training and bring out the latest entrepreneurial potential among students.
Organize personality development programmes, workshops and Industrial visit.

PROGRAMME OUTCOMES

Opportunity for work-based experience
Exercise leadership and develop interpersonal skills
Develop planning financial literacy and money management skills.

FORMATION OF STUDENT INCUBATION CENTRE

The STUDENT INCUBATION CENTRE (SIC) was established on 15.07.2019 to expose the students to identifying the target market and create viable products. The Management of the College Governing Council, Cauvery College for Women, supported with seed fund to motivate and train the students to work in a business setup.
In addition, the institution also provides furnished office pace, technological and maintenance support for the students entrepreneurial welfare. Under the guidance of diligent and experienced faculty, learn the dynamic process of business development and how to survive in their early entrepreneurial stage. The student proposals from in-campus and alumnae’s are invited and reviewed by the mentors, approved by the Principal and the Management.

The SIC STORES and SIC BAKES was formed with selected committee members comprise of students, mentors and the Top Management. The student committee consists of

Store Keeper
Accountant
Sales representative and
Financier

E CELL is happy to inaugurate student campus companies –

SIC STORES - 27.06.2019
SIC BAKES - 03.07.2019

MAQUILLAGE BEAUTY PARLOUR – 14.08.2019
GOLDEN STITCHING – 14.08.2019
NATRA COOL NAPKINS - 13.09.2019

………This will ignite the student with rich experience in becoming successful entrepreneurs.

Vision & Mission of EDC

Vision

To mold students for becoming a role model as Job creators rather than Job seekers in the entrepreneurial ecosystem

Mission

To strength the lateral thinking skills and create awareness for students and faculty in entrepreneurship, Innovation, startup idea building and IPR through training workshops and seminar.
To build collaboration and interlinkages with industrial and professional experts
To activate and gain more skilled experience to ensure innovation and start up culture through mentoring sessions and internships
To create a strong academic base in Entrepreneurship and Innovation
To encourage faculty to research projects in entrepreneurship
To enthuse faculty to take up entrepreneurial mentoring
Create awareness of venture creation as a viable career option
To provide the required infrastructure and incubation facility for students and faculty in supporting their research and startup business plans.
To promote IPR among students and faculty in order to gain unique identity.

Short & Long Term Goals

Short term goals

To encourage maximum students, participate in the IIC activities
To strengthen the student participation in Entrepreneurship Internship Programme
To encourage the students and faculty’s in developing business plans
To organize Entrepreneurial events and activities inside and outside the campus
To offer new courses in Entrepreneurship and Innovation
To apply for grants to promote startup ventures among students and faculties
To encourage research projects in entrepreneurship
To encourage faculties to mentor student startup’s

Long term goals

To Encourage and Nurture the Talents, Provide the Resources in order to Earn in a Proactive end Realistic Environment
To Build New Ethical Ideas and have Unique Recognition in the business scenario.
To enhances on Visual Learning through Industrial Visits, Auditory Learning with theoretical perspective through an online course and Kinesthetic Learning - Awareness Camps, Motivational Program Training and E-stalls.
To elevate the ideation and building of innovative ventures into startups for sustainable growth.