Get Involved GEW 2011 - the world’s largest entrepreneurial movement

This year GEW will take place between the 14 - 20 November 2011.

Since its inception, Global Entrepreneurship Week has spread to 115 countries, with nearly 24,000 organisations planning more than 37,000 activities. As part of Global Entrepreneurship Week 2010 in the UK, over 207,200 people attended 2,577 events, run by 983 organisations.

Global Entrepreneurship Week is a worldwide movement of entrepreneurial people, with millions unleashing their enterprising talents and turning their ideas into reality.

Global Entrepreneurship Week began life as Enterprise Week in the UK back in 2004. When news of the phenomenal success of Enterprise Week in the UK spread the globe, lots of other countries got excited at the potential of running similar initiatives in their own countries. So in 2008, Enterprise UK and the Kauffman Foundation (the world’s largest entrepreneurship foundation based in the US) founded the very first Global Entrepreneurship Week. In 2011, Youth Business International became the national host for Global Entrepreneurship Week in the UK.

Every day in the UK people talk about making a change in their life and consider starting up a business. By connecting individuals to practical support and those who have done it already, Global Entrepreneurship Week 2011 will help turn these exchanges into the businesses of tomorrow.

The Prime Minister David Cameron has called for on the country’s ‘doers and grafters’ to stimulate the economy. Global Entrepreneurship Week does just that by making more people develop their enterprise skills, confidence and ambitions. This mass participation in events across the globe has proven outcomes. Research from Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, shows that taking part in Global Entrepreneurship Week significantly increases a person’s

For more information on how you can get involved or shout about an event you are hosting visit: http://www.gew.org.uk