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Global Enterprise Experience 2017

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A global team experience to develop skills in global leadership, working across cultures, and social entrepreneurship.

Wellington

New Zealand students lead all of the global teams to design businesses that use appropriate technology to improve social wellbeing in the 2017 Global Enterprise Experience (www.geebiz.org). They have three weeks to unite their team members from radically diverse countries to develop creative proposals.

To date 8600 participants from 103 nations have worked together in teams that cross boundaries of rich and poor, big and small, with world views that are worlds apart to tackle major social issues. The contest creates global leaders with a social conscience and a richer appreciation of the challenges in other parts of the world.

The funds are used for the software to manage the 1200 participants and 150 teams, the award ceremony held in New Zealand's parliament, and the prize money.

Global Enterprise Experience's involvement (page creator)

My dream is to create a globally united world. This takes leaders who can work in partnership with diverse peoples from other nations. To become a global leader one needs to practice being a global leader. So this contest aims at developing young people's abilities to be a global leader. We also need sustainable solutions to global issues. So instead of relying on aid money and government efforts, the idea is to encourage social entrepreneurship - in this way the solutions are locally driven, self funding and hence sustainable.

About us

We are helping students grow into world leaders who can tackle the world's tough issues. To date 8600 participants from 103 nations led from New Zealand have worked together in teams that cross boundaries of rich and poor, big and small, with world views that are worlds apart to tackle major social issues.