AMRITA IQAC Head Showcases University’s Best Practices for DST Sponsored FDP on Entrepreneurship

 Dr. Prashant R. Nair, Vice-Chairman – IQAC, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus showcased the university’s best practices to promote innovation such as grace marks for hackathons & competitions, hackathon culture, and linkage of IIC to Atal Tinkering Labs (ATL) of various schools for a Faculty Development Program (FDP) on Entrepreneurship sponsored by the Department of Science & Technology (DST) of the Government of India and organized by Amrita Centre for Entrepreneurship (ACE) of the Directorate of Corporate & Industry Relations (CIR), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham on 22 January 2025. 30 faculty from various colleges attended this FDP, which was coordinated by Mr. R. Krishnan, Head-ACE, CIR @ AMRITA.  The objective of this 2-week FDP, which runs from 20th January to 1st February 2025 is to equip the participants with competence in the area of entrepreneurship development so that they can mentor science & technology students to become entrepreneurs in the future.