Mumbai :
The Institute of Management Technology, Hyderabad, announced the one-of-a-kind joint ‘Social Entrepreneurship’ program with Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). The Social Entrepreneurship Program was inaugurated on January 1 and will commence from January 2 and go on until January 18, 2014.
The Programme was inaugurated at IMT Hyderabad by welcoming the students and faculty of SIPA for a Social Enterprise Practicum in India 2014. IMT Hyderabad is hosting this illustrious venture for the second consecutive year. The inaugural ceremony started with a session by G Vani Mohan, Commissioner & Director of School Education, Government of India. With insights on women empowerment, gender equality, social issues she struck a chord with students who were passionate about social issues.
She mentioned about her powerful Social Action Committees which promoted the growth of gender equality thus forming woman warriors. A short film on the developmental activities like Indira KranthiPatham by the Government of India made the students curious about such causes.
Post the inauguration the students left the Campus to go to Bhimavaram and will stay there till January 8, 2014 evening.
On their return, the students will engage in a Social Media Marketing exercise in the neighboring villages, Urban Consulting projects, a lunch and roundtable with Professors from Cardinal Stritch University on Gandhian Philosophy and Bhoodan movement and a Mac Von Debate between Columbia University and IMT Hyderabad students. The joint program will also comprise of shopping and cultural trips to Shilparamam, Golconda and Charminar, an evening with the institute’s cultural club Antragna, pongal, sankranti and lohri celebrations, and client presentations.
Students participating in the program are all Master in International Affairs or Master in Public Policy students at Columbia University in New York.
The course is a design-thinking experiential education curriculum developed to meet graduate student needs and interests in social entrepreneurship and sustainable development in the 21st Century. In addition to multi-media lectures, labs, field work, and site visits, the course curriculum includes a series of applied consulting projects, in which students will conduct short management consulting projects for an Indian social enterprise or organization focused on social entrepreneurship and innovation in social service delivery in a range of sectors.
source: http://www.articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Hyderabad> Gender Equality / by Yogita Rao, TNN / January 03rd, 2014