A LOOK BACK AT GSEA 2011
Posted by Mark Marich (GEW global)
Jan 11, 2012
From April to October, more than 2,000 students from 42 countries competed in the 2011 Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA), a global competition for high school, undergraduate and graduate students who own and operate businesses while attending college or university. An En...
GEW Spotlights High-growth Women’s Entrepreneurship
Posted by Jonathan Ortmans
Jan 04, 2012
All of us at GEW Global are so proud of all the organizers behind Startup Weekend. As several blog posts on this site have described, GEW 2011 was an excellent year for Startup Weekend’s around the world. Beyond all the great energy and startups coming out of this effort, its...
GEW/Kenya Opens at Kenyatta University
Posted by Mark Marich (GEW global)
Dec 27, 2011
Peter Kenneth, Assistant Minister of State for Planning, National Development and Vision 2030, was on hand during the launch of GEW/Kenya at Kenyatta University in Nairobi. He delivered the following remarks:
Cape Verde PM, Ministers Support GEW
Posted by Mark Marich (GEW global)
Dec 27, 2011
Prime Minister Jose Maria Pereira Neves announced his support for Global Entrepreneurship Week in a video released ahead of the opening session in Cape Verde. His statement was echoed by similar statements from Humberto Brito, Minister for Tourism, Industry and Energy and Janira ...
1 … 2 …3 … 46 START! Businesses on the way
Posted by Mark Marich (GEW global)
Dec 19, 2011
Global Entrepreneurship Week 2011 has marked the launch of the START! Business program, a national entrepreneurship education initiative implemented by Junior Achievement Romania in partnership with the Romanian Commercial Bank to help teams of motivated students in turning their...
HAITI’S FIRST GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP DAY LINKS BUSINESS LEADERS WITH UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
Posted by Mark Marich (GEW global)
Dec 16, 2011
It seemed fitting that the first speaker at the first-ever Global Entrepreneurship Day in Haiti was Mathias Pierre, who rose from the ranks of the poor to launch a successful information technology business. “Entrepreneurship is the antidote to poverty,” Pierre said in an int...
GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP WEEK COMMEMORATED FOR THE 1ST TIME IN AFGHANISTAN
Posted by Mark Marich (GEW global)
Dec 16, 2011
On November 24, 2011 PDT organized the first ever event for the youth of Afghanistan for Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW). It was the Afghan Entrepreneurship and Business Matchmaking Forum.
NZ Prime Minister Shows His GEW Colors
Posted by Mark Marich (GEW global)
Dec 15, 2011
Just hours before The Right Honourable John Key was officially sworn in to his second term in office as Prime Minister of New Zealand today, Mr Key took time out to meet with Global Entrepreneurship Week New Zealand Chair Rob Acton and GEW Your Big Year challenger Toby Jordan to ...
Scotland kicks off Make Your Mark Challenge as part of GEW
Posted by Mark Marich (GEW global)
Dec 14, 2011
October 28 not only marked World Teacher's Day in Scotland, but also the launch of the Make Your Mark Challenge in Scotland, as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week.
Global Entrepreneurship Summit Moves to GEW 2012
Posted by Mark Marich (GEW global)
Dec 07, 2011
At the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Istanbul, Turkey, U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden announced a partnership that would move the future Summits to the opening day of Global Entrepreneurship Week starting next November.
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