The Department of Arts of Kaveri College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Pune organized a One Day Workshop on Social Innovation & Social Entrepreneurship for the students of Third Year BA on 24th September 2024. The workshop was facilitated by Mrs. Bindiya Naik, Asst. Prof. in Economics, Ajinkya D.Y. Patil College, Pune. Mrs. Naik conducted a very effective workshop wherein she tried to ignite the young minds towards social innovation and entrepreneurship. She cited many Social Improvement Projects and narrated a sample Tanzanian Case on Social Innovation. She divided all the participants into small groups deliberating on questions like – Why do we need Social Innovation? How to identify a social problem? Who are social innovators? How does social entrepreneurship contribute to economic development? And so on. The students were very active during the session, and they were sharing their opinion and ideas while answering each question.
She also took on a project of chart making with the groups where they came up with an impending social issue and wrote about the key changes that need to be made. Approaches about different solutions and if they are high/low profit/cost were discussed. Mrs. Naik used a “Learner Centric” approach by engaging the students into different activities. The students were asked to discuss within their groups and find socially innovative products and processes. Students came up with topics such as Illiteracy, Road Infrastructure, Mental Health, and so on.
Several charts were prepared by student groups as a part of the learning process which were later presented in front of other students who seemed to be highly motivated and encouraged to take part in it. They had an enriching and fun session with Mrs. Bindiya Naik. Many students benefited from the workshop. The workshop ended with a sticky note activity where the students were asked to write on how they want to innovate themselves.
