IEDC VAST

An Entrepreneurship Development club is functioning in this Institute to inculcate the culture of entrepreneurship among the students and to equip them with the skills, techniques and confidence to act as torch bearers of “Enterprise” for the new generation. Formally inaugurated on 05/08/2005 by Mr IK Ayyappan, General Manager, District Industries Centre, Thrissur, the club has around 300 student members. One of the main objectives of the club is to change the mindset on the negative attitude prevailing in the state for taking up entrepreneurship as a career.The EDC & Startup has been converted to IEDC VAST on 16-11-2016..

  • Creation of Entrepreneurship Development Cell  is on continuous basis  to help create value added jobs and services.
  • Fostering the entrepreneurial spirit. Create Awareness about Technology Incubation and Commercialization of R & D products and processes.
  • Developing tools for Technology Transfer.
  • Promote small & medium industries.
  • Assistance to existing incubates by way of specialized services e.g patenting, “Copyright” arrangement of venture capital, helping towards marketing of products & processes awareness.

EDC has a panel of Training and Technical consultants.Entrepreneurs are provided office space in the incubation centre to set up their R&D / business operations. The centre has the following facilities.

  • Finished office space with air-conditioning.
  • Furniture
  • Continuous power supply
  • Maintenance services
  • Networking
  • Start Up Village
  • Virtual Incubation
  • Project Facility for Students


Latest Events & Achievements of IEDC VAST

FOSSers Club organises one-day workshop on “Let’s Learn Linux-V2”

FOSSers Club of the College, in association with IEDC, conducted a one-day fully hands on session titled "Lets Learn Linux ...

“WordPress for Beginners” workshop : An initiative of FOSSers Club

The FOSSers Club (Free and Open Source Software Users Club) of the College, in association with Innovation & Entrepreneurship Development ...

IEDC holds MEETUP for freshers

IEDC (VAST) organized an orientation programme called IEDC MEETUP for the newly admitted students of the College on 20 September ...

Two S1 B Tech (CSE) students attend Amazon Web Services workshop

Two students, Arjun Raghunandanan and C Vinay Sankar of S1 BTech (CSE A Batch), attended an Amazon Web Services workshop ...

FOSSers of Vidya celebrate Software Freedom Day with Mapathon in Open Street Map Project

The FOSSers (Free and Open Source Software users), a group of free software enthusiasts, of the College in association with ...

Vidya alumni and students attend “Key to Corporate World” seminar

Key to Corporate World is a one day intensive corporate engagement where future managers get an opportunity to meet and ...