It’s Global Entrepreneurship Week!

Today kicks off Global Entrepreneurship Week, a world-wide event devoted to inspiring young people to embrace innovation, imagination and creativity. The week was founded by the Kauffman Foundation, and runs from November 16th-22nd. It connects entrepreneurs through local, national and international events and activities – participants will include students, educators, entrepreneurs, business leaders, non-profit leaders, and government officials. There are four goals for the week:

• Inspire – introduce entrepreneurship to young people who may not have previously considered it as a career path
• Connect – network individuals and organizations across national boundaries
• Mentor – active entrepreneurs engage with aspiring or new entrepreneurs to lend their expertise
• Engage – demonstrating to policy makers and opinion leaders how entrepreneurship is vital to a nation’s economic health and culture

Sprouter is one of Canada’s national GEW partners, and is taking an active role participating in and hosting GEW events. See below for our involvement in GEW, and we hope you’ll join us for the events:

Monday, November 16th – Sprouter’s Founder/CEO Sarah Prevette is speaking on an Emerging Entrepreneurs panel at the Canadian Youth Business Foundation‘s Youth Entrepreneurship Summit. You can watch the livestream here or check out the liveblogging page on ScribbleLive here.

Tuesday, November 17th – Sprouter is hosting our first Sprout Up Montreal event at Brutopia from 6-9pm. Guest speaker Saul Colt will be talking about creating a community for your startup, and local startups KeenKong and SmartHippo will be presenting. You can RSVP here, or on Sprouter on the #SproutUpMontreal event page.

Wednesday, November 18th – Sprouter is hosting Sprout Up Toronto at The Pilot from 6-9pm. The theme for the evening is youth entrepreneurship – guest speaker Matthew Corrin will be talking about his experiences founding Freshii, and student entrepreneurs will be presenting their businesses. You can RSVP here, or on Sprouter on the #SproutUpTO event page.

Thursday, November 18th – We’ll be helping to set a Guinness World Record for the world’s Largest Business Lesson at Toronto City Hall – register on the Enterprise Toronto website here (event runs from 6-8:30pm)

Friday, November 19th – We will judging the LIVE Conference business competition, LIVE Challenge, which allows young entrepreneurs to face tomorrow’s business decisions today. More information on competition here.

Saturday, November 20th – Sarah Prevette is speaking at the Impact National Conference about her journey as an entrepreneur – see more info here.

We hope you’ll visit your country’s section on the GEW website to find out about events and activities in your area. You can watch a video below about GEW and its importance: