Archive for the ‘Global Entrepreneurship Week’ Category

The Adventures of Sam…

July 8th, 2010 by martha

is an exciting new book series created by Make Your Mark Challenge regional finalists from Highcliffe School.
The 6th form students from Dorset came third in their South West Regional Final and instead of being disapointed they hadn’t won they were encouraged that they had an exciting business idea and have spent the past few months Read more…

notes from Toronto

July 1st, 2010 by Peter

I was invited to the G20 Young Entrepreneurs Summit in Toronto recently and wanted to post a note about my experience.

The aim of the two-day Summit was to impact the G20 by working on a declaration representing the voice of 20 countries to maximize the economic potential of young entrepreneurs in their respective Read more…

Building an Enterprise Culture throughout Europe

June 30th, 2010 by jacqui

STARTENT is a new project which will contribute to developing the entrepreneurial culture of young people, and to improving entrepreneurship education in Europe. The project is co-funded by the European Commission, DG Enterprise and Industry under the call “Entrepreneurial culture of young people and entrepreneurship education”.
With a comprehensive set of actions, the STARTENT project address Read more…

Can you help?

June 30th, 2010 by jacqui

One of our ambassadors is planning a huge Global Entrepreneurship Week Event to inspire women from across the region. Melanie has been planning the vent for sometime and want this to be one of the key events of Global Entrepreneurship Week in the Northwest.
Please see below some more information form Melanie about the event its Read more…

Northwest Companies Be Inpsired with London 2012

June 29th, 2010 by jacqui

 
Companies across the Northwest are benefiting from London 2012, with at least 204 Northwest businesses having now won 275 Games-related contracts.
There are a number of events taking place across the region over the couple of months giving information about how Northwest Businesses can benefit from the games and get involved.
These include;
 
Everyone’s 2012 – The Northwest Read more…

Plug in Placements with Vision and Media

June 29th, 2010 by jacqui

With the pace of change across all sectors of the digital and creative industries, skills gaps can often emerge that businesses can find hard to bridge without support. We work in partnership with digital and creative employers in the North West to support paid training placements for those new to the industry, and for experienced Read more…

Business Awards June

June 29th, 2010 by jacqui

Northwest Region Awards
EN Magazine North West Entrepreneur Awards 2010 – EN Magazine’s North West Entrepreneur of the Year Awards scheme, now in its ninth year, exists to honour the achievements of the region’s most tenacious and successful entrepreneurs – and to provide encouragement and a standard against which they can measure themselves to those who Read more…

Reflecting Light Exhibition at Shine officially open

June 29th, 2010 by Zarina

It’s officially open! After months of planning, preparation and lots of painting, I’m thrilled to see my Reflecting Light Exhibition at Shine open to the public after the launch evening on Thursday 17th June.
The evening got formally underway with speeches – an introduction and welcome to Shine by CEO Dawn O’Keefe, an official opening by Read more…

Girls Out Loud!

June 29th, 2010 by jacqui

Girls Out Loud is a UK based social enterprise set up in 2009 by serial entrepreneur and inspirational speaker/coach Jane Kenyon and business woman, Ambassador for enterprise and media personality Claire Young – with the aim to raise the aspirations of young girls between the ages of 13-18.  Girls Out Loud facilitates intervention programmes in Read more…

Looking for a Creative Break?

June 29th, 2010 by jacqui

Give a Young Person (and your creative team) a Break!
Apprenticeships have risen in reputation and popularity exponentially over recent years.
However within the thriving creative industries sector – creative agencies as well as marketing departments – there is currently a dearth of opportunity for these bright and ambitious individuals.
A unique partnership between the National Apprenticeship Service Read more…

Malaysia launches Global Entrepreneurship Week in the KL Tower!

June 21st, 2010 by Max

Global Entrepreneurship Week Malaysia got its campaign up and running with a bang (or a gong – see below) in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Taking place in the KL Tower – the world’s fifth tallest telecommunication tower – GEW’s fantastic Malaysian hosts Warisan Global brought together the entrepreneurial community’s great and good for a typically high-octane event.

A crowd of Read more…

Nigeria launches Global Entrepreneurship Week!

June 15th, 2010 by Max

Nigeria has joined the growing roster of countries to have officially gotten their Global Entrepreneurship Week campaigns off the mark. On a lively opening night in Lagos, a mix of policy makers, financial institutions, academics and 254 Nigerian SMEs were present to witness the launch and discuss the event’s theme, ‘Building credible SMEs in tough Read more…

Mauritius has lift off…

June 4th, 2010 by Max

This week saw the small island nation of Mauritius getting its Global Entrepreneurship Week preparations off to a big start with the Entrepreneurial Training Workshop. The programme has been organised by the Week’s organisers on the island, Empretec Mauritius. This week’s ETW is one of a series of six Workshops that Empretec is organising in the build Read more…

North East Students have the X Factor and win their Human Prize!

June 3rd, 2010 by Amelia

This was the moment that students from Newcastle College who took part in Enterprise UK’s Make your Mark with a Tenner competition unwrapped their ‘human’ prize for being shortlisted and raising the most amount of money in the North East.
Out of the 38 schools and colleges that took part in the competition in the North East, Read more…

Working 5 to 9 and making sense of business

June 3rd, 2010 by Peter

Entrepreneurship needs to be firmly at the heart of our future economy and people with business ideas need the inspiration to take them a step further. As such it is always interesting to see decent books aiming to help and inspire entrepreneurs.
Two books I’ve seen recently are the perfect addition to anyone’s catalogue of Read more…