The Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK) and the National Commission for Women (NCW) have come together to give women an opportunity to undergo professional training to launch their entrepreneurial career as well as a chance for existing women entrepreneurs to augment and scale up their businesses with professional mentoring.
The collaborative online training programme to nurture and build entrepreneurial capability among women entrepreneurs will be designed and executed by the Centre of Excellence for Social Innovation (CESI) of the IIMK in association with NCW and MyGov.in. To increase outreach and make the programme accessible, the programme will be offered bilingually in English and Malayalam, a press release said, in Kozhikode, on May 10.
Aspiring women entrepreneurs can now choose from two dedicated programmes designed as per their current careers and skillsets in Foundation Programme in Entrepreneurship and Advanced Programme in Entrepreneurship. The four-month, short-term programmes with total sixty hours of online and interactive learning include lectures, discussions, entrepreneurship talks and significant mentoring from various subject matter experts.
