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

IEDC orgainses a session on Job Openings, Startup Development and Skill Sets

Under the auspices of IEDC, a session was conducted on "Job Openings, Startup Development and Skill Set" by LiveWire, an ...

News 18 Kerala interviews team behind Vidya’s startup Hasti-Griha

Hasthi-Griha is a startup company established by a few students of the College. The same students, who have now completed ...

Vidya students participate in Ideathon: Live Discovery at IIM Kozhikode

Adel Kabeer (S6 B Tech, ME) and Anoop (S4 B Tech, ECE) were selected as  volunteers and participated  in the ...

CSE student facilitated in the 131st Anniversary celebrations of Deepika Newspaper

Ms Aiswarya P G (S8 B Tech (CSE)) was felicitated for her project "Easy and Safe Disposal of Menstrual Waste" ...

Global Money Week celebrated in Vidya

Sameeksha, the Trainers' Club of the College, and IEDC of the College, in association with Professional Trainers' Club, hosted the Global Money ...

Vidya students and faculty attend 2-day Ideation Workshop at Sahrdaya College of Engineering

As  part of the Idea Fest being organized by Kerala Startup Mission (KSUM), a two-day Ideation Workshop was held at ...