Student's Life

Inquivesta

Inquivesta – the country's largest science festival, hosted by IISER-Kolkata – was started in 2011, to ignite curiosity in young minds. Currently in its 10th edition, the fest sees participation of more than 1000 students from more than 100 colleges and schools across the country. The fest brings with it exciting events, seminars and workshops that cater to the interests of all students across India - the future scientists and engineers; the artists and dramatists; the dreamers and the doers.

E-cell

The Entrepreneurship Cell of IISER Kolkata fosters the kindling of an entrepreneurial spirit in the student community and promote the conversion of fledgling ideas into real-world businesses. The E-Cell works in tandem with the IISER Kolkata incubation center: RISE foundation. It organizes events and provides resources to support budding student entrepreneurs.

Slashdot Club

Slashdot is IISER Kolkata's Coding and Designing Club. They regularly host workshops and competitions in various programming languages and design software. They also promote open-source projects and competitive programming to develop stellar programmers and designers.

The Research Innovation and Scientific Entrepreneurship (RISE) Foundation IISER

The Research Innovation and Scientific Entrepreneurship (RISE) Foundation IISER – set up on the IISER Kolkata campus – will act as a nodal hub to enhance entrepreneurship in the eastern and north-eastern part of India, thereby creating new job opportunities and strengthening the economy of the region. RISE has received generous Funding from NIDHI-TBI scheme of Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India and IISER Kolkata for developing state-of-the art facilities to foster entrepreneurship.

Our MISSION is to serve as a key entity for revenue generation for the entire region with adequate leveraging of intellectual property from IISER Kolkata and other higher educational and research institutes in Kolkata and nearby areas.

Our VISION is to exploit the high quality research being carried out at IISER Kolkata and nearby institutes for creating and nurturing an innovation ecosystem. In addition, we also intend to provide management training, business consulting, assistance in business plan creation and networking opportunities for the incubatees, so as to ensure business viability and the eventual success of start-ups that the centre will help nurture