Vivekananda Global University (VGU), Jaipur, is building a new model of undergraduate education, which is supporting students to move from classroom ideas to research papers, working prototypes, intellectual property, and startup creation, through mandatory transdisciplinary projects, innovation platforms, incubation support, and entrepreneurship-driven mentoring.. Vivekananda Global University in Jaipur is transforming undergraduate education through mandatory transdisciplinary projects, promoting collaboration across disciplines. (VGU) The university’s academic process At the core of this model is VGU’s approach to mandatory transdisciplinary projects, where students from multiple disciplines work together on real-world challenges rather than isolated subject assignments. These projects are designed to encourage: Problem identification, Field engagement, Solution design, Prototyping, Validation, and Eventual translation into outcomes such as publications, working models, copyrights, patents, and startup registrations. The approach is changing the undergraduate experience by making students active creators instead of passive learners, said the university. It is also creating a campus culture in which engineering students work with designers, business students collaborate with agricultural innovators, and young researchers learn to think beyond disciplinary silos. Prof. V. Saira, Head of …