The Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on Entrepreneurship consisted of various components aimed at enhancing the capabilities of the participants. These included comprehensive training and workshops covering essential aspects of entrepreneurship, such as opportunity identification, business planning, marketing strategies, financial management, and risk assessment to create a robust entrepreneurship ecosystem. Faculty Development Programmes conducted in the domain of
Towards building an entrepreneurial ecosystem by equipping the faculty group with knowledge on entrepreneurship as a subject and the ways to promote it among the student community, EDII conducted Faculty Development Programmes (FDPs), with the objective of imparting knowledge on the aspects of designing, developing and teaching entrepreneurship course to create high-achieving entrepreneurial individuals in society.
EDII has been at the forefront of instituting cadres of proficient trainer-motivators. EDII conducted various 'Trainers' Training Programme on Entrepreneurship' wherein trainers participated to gain insights into entrepreneurship, so that they could gain competences in designing and implementing entrepreneurship related programmes.
The Institute conducted ‘School Teachers' Development Programmes in Entrepreneurship Mentoring’ in collaboration with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). These five-day programmes were instrumental in providing educators with necessary tools and knowledge to mentor students in entrepreneurship. The programme focused on empowering school teachers, administrators, principals, and academic leaders involved or interested in teaching entrepreneurship to students.
To achieve aforementioned objectives the Government has launched pan India programmes, viz. ‘Start-up India’, ‘Stand-up India’, ‘Make-in India’, ‘Digital India’, ‘Swachha Bharat (Clean India)’, that are aimed at further propelling entrepreneurship movement in India. Sculpting its mandate around this mission, EDII looks forward to increasing its efforts towards cultivating entrepreneurial bent of mind and knowledge in youth. The most crucial change agents in this process are the faculty members specializing in teaching entrepreneurship.
Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII), backed by over more than 30 years of experience in the field, designed a module to develop a cadre of trained faculty members involved in teaching entrepreneurship at the school and college levels and has been implementing Faculty Development Programmes successfully across the country and abroad. The Institute has been receiving enthusiastic response for this programme from the academic community.
Group work and practice sessions.
Lecture-cum-discussion, case studies, role-plays and simulation exercises
Interactions with experts in entrepreneurship development, curriculum development and opportunity guidance and with successful entrepreneurs for practical insights.
The programme is open to teachers and faculty members from universities, science and engineering colleges, polytechnics and entrepreneurship development institutions involved or likely to be involved in Entrepreneurship related activities. Professionals from NGOs involved in similar activities would also benefit from the programme.
The programme is designed to train and develop professionals in the area of Entrepreneurship Development so that they can act as ‘Resource Persons’ in guiding and motivating young students, particularly from science & technology stream, to take up Entrepreneurship as their career.
By the end of the module, the participant will be able to understand teaching and learning process, changing roles of teachers in the current environment, challenges faced, learning components of teaching and Teaching Styles and Strategies also he will be able to understand the importance of making teaching Learning Process more effective and Enjoyable and the probable techniques for the same.