Global Entrepreneurship Week (17-23 November 2008) is a celebration of enterprise, which aims to unleash young people's enterprising ideas and address some of society's biggest issues, from poverty reduction through to climate change. More than 70 countries are currently signed up to run their very own versions of Enterprise Week. This event will be held in Macedonia this year for the first time and more than 30 organisations will run events and activities in order to encourage people to have ideas and make them happen. This can be by starting up a new business or social enterprise, or by having ideas and making them happen in the workplace.
If you have any questions about Global Entrepreneurship Week, check out our FAQs page.
We mean to have ideas and make them happen. The package of skills we use to describe enterprise are:
- creativity
- problem solving
- risk taking
- financial capability
- resourcefulness
- taking the initiative
- selling ideas
Young people can use their enterprise skills in many areas of their life: at work, at home, or in education. All these vital skills will help people to make their mark.
Strengthening Entrepreneurship, Competitiveness and Innovation (SECI) Proje(www.seciproject.org.mk) and Youth Entrepreneurial Service (YES) Foundation (www.yesincubator.org.mk) are two organizations that will work upon organizing and supporting this event in Macedonia. Both organizations will work upon inspiring people to have ideas and make them happen. The aim is to create a culture which supports enterprising people and recognises that making money and having a positive social impact can go hand in hand.
We need people and organisations to help create an environment that allows enterprising behaviour to flourish. It's important people believe in themselves and strive to make their ideas happen, and they often need encouragement and help.
The drive to nurture enterprise talent needs business, education, government, voluntary organisations and the media to work together – no single sector or organisation working in isolation can create opportunities on this ambitious scale.
Enterprise Week is a great opportunity for showcasing what hundreds of organisations already do all year round to help foster an enterprise culture, or alternatively to launch a new initiative or scheme. See our resources page for some great event ideas.
