About
Welcome to Global Entrepreneurship Week 2011
GEW is a worldwide event in which countries all over the world host events to promote entrepreneurship amongst the youth. During the week, host organizations and partners in each country organize events and activities such as conferences, competitions and training aimed to inspire, connect, inform, mentor and engage the next generation of entrepreneurs.

The Week provides aspiring and emerging entrepreneurs with skills, networks and values they need to grow their ideas into innovative and sustainable enterprises by embracing 21st century innovation, imagination and creativity. To think big, turn ideas into reality and make their mark.

Background
Like many great movements, Global Entrepreneurship Week started with an idea in 2008 with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Carl Schramm, president and CEO of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (the largest promoter of entrepreneurship in the the world) on a notion to inspire

youth entrepreneurship. The Week quickly grew into a worldwide movement involving more than three million participants, 78 countries, 25,000 activities, and 8,892 partners in 2008, its inaugural year.

Global Entrepreneurship Week 2011
GEW 2011 promises to be bigger as millions of young people around the world will join a growing movement of entrepreneurial people, to generate new ideas and seek better ways of doing business.
In Lagos, Nigeria, the Week will bring over 3,500 participants together through a range of local and global activities designed to help them explore their potential as self-starters and innovators. Involving established entrepreneurs, business leaders, high profiled personnel from various industries including government agencies, policy advisers from ministry of establishment, educators, non-profit leaders etc., aspiring and enterprising emerging entrepreneurs will learn to embrace innovation, imagination and creativity in doing 21st century businesses in an environment like this.

Objectives
Through idea exchange, campus competition, workshops, seminars, conferences, product display, exhibition and business social networking, we intend to:
Inspire: introduce entrepreneurship to young people under the age of thirty who otherwise might not have considered it as a career path having know the high rate of unemployment and growing ratio of job scarcity in Nigeria.
Connect: network young people and organizations across national boundaries to discover new ideas at the intersection of business startups, marketing opportunities available franchising and idea exchange.
Mentor: enlist active and inspiring entrepreneurs around the country to be coached and mentored as the next generation of entrepreneurs pursuing their dreams.
Engage:demonstrate to opinion leaders and policymakers how entrepreneurship is central to a nation's economic health and culture and give them the opportunity to learn about each other's entrepreneurial policies and practices.