Entrepreneurship Week India from Feb 5th to 12th

From the 5th to the 12th February 2011, students of Entrepreneurship Cells (E Cells) at 30 NEN member academic institutes in Bangalore will engage in E Week India 2011 – the high energy week-long campaign to build awareness and inspire public support for entrepreneurship. A week of exciting and unusual activities will be conducted by student E Cells in and outside their campuses, focusing on this year’s E Week theme: ‘Ideas for India’. E Week India is the largest entrepreneurship activity in the country and has dramatically been growing in strength each year. Over 4,500 activities are expected to be conducted this year engaging over 6 lakhs participants.

E Week@School
A unique feature this year’s E Week is E Week@Schools, an initiative by NEN in which students of Entrepreneurship Cells from NEN member academic institutes reach out to thousands of school students. School students will be introduced to the excitement and skills of entrepreneurship through the ‘Rs.50 Exercise’, a game that has them dreaming up, starting and running a business in a single day. Originated at Stanford University and run successfully at hundreds of top Indian institutes, the Rs.50 Exercise has been adapted to work for students aged 7 – 12 years.

E Week India Pledge and Other Activities
During E Week, participants on and off campuses across the country – students, entrepreneurs, faculty members, industry leaders and key members of the community will take the E Week Pledge to keep working towards an entrepreneurial India and a dynamic, growing economy.

Lacs of people will participate in activities run by students and others. The activities include competitions, expositions, educational movie screenings, leadership and motivation talks with successful entrepreneurs, panel discussions, business plan and skills-building workshops, business and tech bazaars, awareness campaigns and more. In addition, participants can sign up on the E Week website to share their experiences, view events information, and connect with the larger NEN community. For details of activities and programs being conducted by NEN member colleges in your city during E Week, you may visit http://nen360.nenonline.org/events/eweek_events

E Week will culminate on 12th February, 2011 with a gala Awards Ceremony in Bangalore. NEN member academic institutes will be chosen for the E Week India 2010 Championship Awards as well as 3 Special Awards: 1) E Week @ School Award 2) Nilima Rovshen Creativity and Innovation Award 3) Most Effective Public Awareness Campaign Award. Student representatives of the Award winners will be flown to Bangalore for the Awards Ceremony attended by students from various institutes, eminent people from the industry and the government.