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MSU’s alumni network comprising alumni from India and United States in collaboration with the Office of Alumni Affairs and Donors Relations had last year launched vision 2020 to inspire students of FTE with incubator initiative as one of the programmes.
The incubator had received 25 proposals from techo students. After a structured, diligent evaluation process, 15 teams were invited to pitch their startup ideas before the incubator council which was composed of selected faculty members and alumni.
Each of the top five teams was awarded a seed funding of Rs 50,000 to build their product and compete for the top award of Rs 1 lakh. Along the way, all participating students went through several webinars on entrepreneurship and each of the top five teams got mentoring support from the alumni.
Vadodara: Eminent alumni of M S University, most of them belonging to the 1980 batch of Faculty of Technology and Engineering (FTE), on Friday launched MSU Vision 2020 project.
The project, launched virtually by the alumni, a majority of whom are working at the Silicon Valley, aims to give back to their alma mater by encouraging, grooming and mentoring the current students of the university.
The launch programme witnessed presence of the likes of Ajay Bhatt, co-inventor of USB, Haresh Kumbhani, Rajesh Mathrani, Raj Joshi from Silicon Valley, Sunil Mehta from Washington DC – to name a few.
MSU Vision 2020 has three aspects – merit awards, student mentoring programme and the flagship programme of tech incubator.