LIBA Conducted NSEF- Villgro Idea Conference a step to facilitate Collaborative Efforts towards Social Entrepreneurship amongst the youth

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Chennai, August 17, 2011: NSEF (National Social Entrepreneurship Forum), a Non-profit organization with a single minded mission of promoting social entrepreneurship amongst the youth across India, conducted The NSEF (National Social Entrepreneurship Forum) - Villgro Idea Conference and Social Business Idea Competition at LIBA (Loyola Institute of Business Administration) Campus. In this Social Business Plan Competition out of 13 entries, 10 were shortlisted to present their business plan. The Team Doers presented the solar street lamps for rural areas, LIBA (Dhivya Daniel, Livingston Cruz, Arockia Marcena and Rini Dominica) emerged as the winner and Team Eureka presented a business plan for design of a mechanized assistant for domestic Indian Households (Robin Jude, Herbert Gnanaraj and John Anthony Jose), LIBA, as the runner up for the national level contest. The winning idea will take home exciting prizes, mentorship & guidance from experts and a trip to IIT Madras to take part in the highly prestigious Villgro’s Young Innovators programme. The jury panel was presided by eminent personalities from various successful enterprises consisting of Ms. Tara Thiagarajan - Founder of Madura Micro Finance & Mr. Sreejith N N - Founder & Managing Director ROPE Enterprises Private Ltd.

Speaking on the occasion, Fr. Christie, Director, LIBA, said “It’s an event to catalyze social entrepreneurship amongst the youth, drive home social innovation and entrepreneurship and a place to mutually learn about effective solutions to the most pressing social problems of our country. LIBA is happy to announce that Post Idea conference – LIBA would be the first B school to set up an NSEF – Villgro student chapter in Chennai which will make sure events related to social entrepreneurship will be a regular feature at the campus”. The event is being hosted by the Entrepreneurship Development Cell and Beyond Management of LIBA. LIBA is also planning for a regular social entrepreneurship events to happen in order to provide a platform for the budding entrepreneurs and also regular industry interface from various backgrounds to address LIBA students and interact is an endeavour in this direction.

Gaurav Makkar, Director of the NSEF Said “The conference followed by ‘My Idea Program’- A social business plan competition, which is a platform for students working on innovative ideas to change the world. Competitors & budding entrepreneurs all over the city are highly enthusiastic about the one-day event that is the first of its kind in the region.”

One of fundamental aims of a university education is to prepare better citizens for the country. While the idea is an extremely noble one, most universities tend to focus on academic excellence as a means to achieve it. There is a dearth of systems that nurture and promote tomorrow's potential "change makers" within the student base.
About NSEF:

National Social Entrepreneurship Forum (NSEF) is a Non-profit organization with a single minded mission of promoting social entrepreneurship amongst the youth across India. With this objective NSEF establishes chapters at local communities (universities/metros) which conduct various activities to create an ecosystem that will produce the next generation of social entrepreneurs. Some of the activities we do include lecture series and workshops for students and young social entrepreneurs, social business plan and blogging competitions, idea cafes and conferences, mentoring young social entrepreneurs amongst others.
About LIBA:

Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA), established in 1979, is a premier management institute known for its academic excellence and value-based education. It is the only private B-school in South India to consistently rank in the Top 10 of such institutes in India. LIBA provides management education to both fresh graduates seeking world-class management education and also to those who are already employed and want to enhance their managerial skills. In addition, it offers a doctoral program, one year executive PG Diploma, certificate programs, blended learning (E-Learning) and executive PG programs. The Post Graduate Diploma in Management (full-time) is being offered since 1995. Both the part-time and the full-time PGDM programs are approved by the AICTE and the full-time program is recognized by the AIU as equivalent to the MBA degree of Indian Universities. LIBA also has collaborations with several Universities overseas and seeks to imbibe a global mindset in its students.
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