Written on June 10, 2010 by cgoes
What happened on WED 2010 in Egypt you ask? Well, LOTS of stuff, in both Cairo and Alexandria.
SIFE Ain Sham University celebrated in Cairo for the second year in a row, organizing an event that featured six keynote speakers made up of university professors and representatives of international corporations such as IBM and Itida. The Chief of the Supreme Council of Universities from the Ministry of Higher Education was also there, presenting seminars to ambitious students on topics such as:
- Entrepreneurship and its importance to the future generations,
- Innovation as an inseparable term from entrepreneurship,
- Service science management, its importance, its needs, and methods of presenting services; and
- How we can all collaborate towards having a smarter planet.
A representative from IBM Egypt and also from Itida Egypt spoke about how their corporations started and the direct link between entrepreneurship and service science management.
What came out of this? Well, agreements have now been formed with local associations and social funds institutions to give ambitious and promising young entrepreneurs loans for their start ups in order to engage them in real life business. Amazing! Thank you to the SIFE ASU team!
Check out the photos:
And then, as if that wasn’t already a spectacular WED in Egypt, closer to the Mediterranean the SIFE team at Alexandria University pulled together an amazing day on 29 April. But don’t take my word for it, thanks to them you can check it out yourself at their live upstream! We also love the awesome poster they put together:
Written on June 10, 2010 by cgoes
More than 200 students, professors, academics and policy makers gathered at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Skopje to celebrate World Entrepreneurship Day in Macedonia.
This year, Macedonia joined the WED celebration for the first time, and we were thrilled with what the team there achieved! Several events were organized, the first of which being the promotion of a research report conducted on the topic “Women and Entrepreneurship”. This was presented by the “Capacity Building Towards Knowledge Based Economy” project, funded by the Austrian Development Cooperation in cooperation with the National Centre for Development of Innovations and Entrepreneurial Learning and BASME Consulting and Training. The research covered more than 200 students and 100 women entrepreneurs.
The main event of the day was an incredible Business Plan Competition for gymnasiums and art high schools in the Republic of Macedonia. This was organized by the National Centre for Development of Innovations and Entrepreneurial Learning in cooperation with the Business Start-up Centre at the Faculty for Mechanical Engineering and the Bureau for development of the education. This event saw the top ten high school teams presenting business plans in front of the Jury, with the top three receiving prizes from sponsors Saving House MOZNOSTI and the telecommunications company ONE.
The Macedonia team did not stop there – other events around the country also included:
The WED team would like to say a HUGE thank you to the amazing WED Macedonia volunteers who were able to pull together such a phenomenal day!
Check out the pics!
Written on May 11, 2010 by cgoes
KCA University, a private university in Kenya with a student population of over 7,000 held a full-day Creative Workshop to join the rest of the world in commemorating World Entrepreneurship Day (WED) at their main campus in Ruaraka. The university established a Centre for Entrepreneurship and Leadership in 2009 to spearhead innovation and technology transfer among the university community.
Despite being held during exam week, the workshop 60 students, who enjoyed the variety of the workshop content, the delivery and opportunity to be part of a global movement. Sessions covered included social entrepreneurship, funding of social enterprises and self branding, as well as various group activities, question and answer sessions and an exciting TED talk!
The WED Team thanks David Kairo and the KCA Centre for Entrepreneurship and Leadership for this amazing and inspiring event.
Written on May 11, 2010 by cgoes
At 1.30pm on Friday 16 April 2010 students, entrepreneurs and business leaders gathered at Methodist University College in Ghana to celebrate World Entrepreneurship Day, discussing a variety of topics under the overarching theme of ‘Skill and Entrepreneurship: Bridging the Gender Divide’.
Topics included:
- The Secrets to Success of a Persistent Entrepreneur – presented by Mr. Kwame Nyamkye, MUCG Entrepreneurship Lecturer and Entrepreneur
- Women in High Level Management, Intra-Preneurship – presented by Mrs. Brigitte Dzogbenuku, General Manager of the Aviation Social Centre
- African Women & Youth ICT Entrepreneurship – presented by Mrs. Sheila Bartels-Sam, Chief Executive Officer of Platinum Technologies & InCharge Global
- 8 Steps to Success TED Video – presented by Mr. Richard St. John, TED speaker
- The Making of “ToeTalk” (Who Am I) – presented by Mr. Prince Sackey, Chief Executive Officer of Toetalk
- SIFE & AIESEC contribution on Entrepreneurship in Ghana – presented by Edmund Akrofie, Programs Manager of SIFE Ghana and Mary Anna Coleman, AIESEC Alumni
This event would not have been possible if it weren’t for Ekow Kwansa Acquaye, WED Country Champion for Ghana, so thank you!
We can’t wait to see what will be held in Ghana next year!
Written on May 10, 2010 by cgoes
What went down on World Entrepreneurship Day 2010 in Singapore? Only a truly inspirational and thought provoking WED event! The WED Singapore Facebook page has loads of amazing photos covering the event (such as below, thanks to Ms Mandy Pham Huong Giang from GNPhotography), which featured speakers such as serial entrepreneur and chairman of Buy1Give1 Paul Dunn, Bernise Ang, Alvin Lee, as well as Adrian Tan of Antenna Consulting.
The WED Singapore team collaborated with youth leaders network ASEANpreneurs, NUS Centre of Social Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy and the NUS Business School for an entrepreneurship workshop with everyone from the most experienced serial entrepreneurs to students and aspiring entrepreneurs.
The event was featured on Young Upstarts and the team also got out there and interviewed a bunch of people to get their views on entrepreneurship. See it here: World Entrepreneurship Day SINGAPORE.
What an amazing WED celebration!
