Nodal partners
Nodal Partners are Institutions and Organizations which work with management, engineering and technical students. Our nodals identify budding student innovators and motivate them to take up innovations and entrepreneurship Program
In order to scale the pace at which innovations reach the rural market we need to
- Create an ecosystem that supports student innovation and entrepreneurship.
- Scale up the process using the Hub and Spoke model.
Nodal partners play a key role in both phases. They network with other local institutions, NGOs and sections of rural society, playing a key role in the planning, implementation and review of our initiatives at the ground level. In turn, we support our student nodal partners financially and build their capacity, so that in the long run they can develop the capabilities to facilitate incubation.
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At present we have two Nodal Partners, each with a Project Coordinator in charge of activities.
Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore
http://www.vit.ac.in/
Established: 1984
- VIT is a leading name in engineering education. It was the first educational institution in India to be awarded the ISO 9002 certification, for three years, by DNV, Netherlands.
- All programmes run by VIT are accredited as 'Grade A' by National Board of Accreditation, Government of India.
- It originally had just 3 undergraduate courses.
Now, it has
- 7 schools
- 17 undergraduate programmes
- 28 post graduate programmes and M. Phil as well as PhD programmes
Nodal Cell Coordinator at VIT:
A. Balachandran, Manager,
Technology Business Incubator (VIT-TBI),
VIT-University, Vellore
PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore
http://www.psgtech.edu/
Established: 1951
- PSG College of Technology is one of the many educational institutions run by the PSG & Sons Charities Trust in the well-known industrial centre of Coimbatore.
- It is affiliated to Anna University in Chennai
- It has 48 full time and part time programmes in Science, Engineering and Management at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
- It is ISO 9001 certified and has a long standing tradition of close interaction with industry.
Nodal Cell Coordinator at PSG Tech:
K. Suresh Kumar,
Manager, PSG Science and Technology Entrepreneurial Park (PSG-STEP),
PSG College of Technology,
Coimbatore
National Social Entrepreneurship Forum (NSEF)
Website: www.nsef-india.org/
National Social Entrepreneurship Forum (NSEF) is India's premier youth platform for social innovations with pan-India chapters facilitating the growth of leaders of change. It was founded in 2009 with an aim to inspire the next generation of leaders, bridge the talent inequity in the social sector and foster ecosystems where social change catalysts are created and supported. Since its inception, NSEF has undertaken social entrepreneurial activities in 30 academic institutes, helped more than 50 social enterprises to address their biggest challenges by connecting them to talent equipped with the right skills and mindsets to jumpstart their growth and has created a multiplier effect by supporting a number of early stage innovators & entrepreneurs, impacting millions of lives in India.
NSEF believes in a collaborative approach to create large scale, systemic social change by leveraging existing networks of social enterprises and has worked in partnership with many other ecosystem evangelists to maximize the much required impact.
