Why GEW is important
“Thriving successful businesses are the lifeblood of prosperous communities. It has never been more important to support the next generation of wealth creating entrepreneurs – particularly in these challenging economic times.”
David Frost, Director General, British Chambers of Commerce.
Global Entrepreneurship Week puts the spotlight on enterprise, opening up new opportunities for people across the country and the world.
Thousands of events are run all over the globe, creating mass participation and exposing people of all ages to quality entrepreneurial experiences. It’s about developing people’s enterprise skills, confidence, and making them realise their ambitions.
Events have a real impact
It’s important to us at Enterprise UK that events run during Global Entrepreneurship Week have a real impact on those that attend them. Read Mildred’s inspiring story and read Omar’s thoughts on Global Entrepreneurship Week from the attendees themselves!
Drive us through economic recovery
We need entrepreneurs now more than ever: fresh thinkers who spot opportunities, apply their talents and overcome obstacles to make their ideas happen. Global Entrepreneurship Week will shine the spotlight on enterprise and enable the perfect environment for entrepreneurship to flourish.
Create a platform to share best practice amongst practitioners and educators
We believe that every person should have real-life enterprise experiences and the chances to develop entrepreneurial skills and attitudes. We aim to achieve this is by encouraging networks of practitioners and educators around the world to share their success stories, and challenges, and empowering our partners to embed enterprise across their curriculum.
Promote gender equality in the business world
Women and girls represent over half of the population but are often under-represented in enterprise education and the business world. By reaching out to women and girls and empowering them to consider entrepreneurship for themselves, we hope to unleash millions of ideas in a massive area of untapped potential. Read about Women’s Enterprise Day
Enterprise is having ideas and making them happen.
Being enterprising is the ability to respond to change, take risks, to innovate and to generate and implement new ideas and new ways of doing things.
The package of skills we use to describe enterprise are:
- the ability to assess and manage risk
- creativity
- resourcefulness
- business understanding and planning
- communication skills
- teamwork skills
- leadership skills
- self-efficacy
- and self-reliance
All these vital skills will help people to make their mark and have a positive impact on society.
