This year we at SLUDTERA are celebrating 15 years of Celebrating entrepreneurship and those who live it.
GEW 2022 Themes
Global Entrepreneurship Week empowers nascent entrepreneurs and those who face systemic barriers to starting and scaling their own companies. Through GEW, we focus on four distinct theme areas to spotlight impactful voices and organizations — as well as inspiring activities — that are helping empower entrepreneurs everywhere.
The year’s biggest celebration of entrepreneurship is coming Nov. 14-20! Take a look at GEW Dates & FAQs. Everyone, anywhere in the world, is invited to take part in this movement, which aims to empower founders and make it easier for anyone, anywhere to learn entrepreneurial skills and start and scale companies. Add your event to the official calendar at www.gew.co.
About GEW
Global Entrepreneurship Week is a massive campaign to celebrate and empower entrepreneurs in every country and community around the world – especially those individuals who face structural barriers or may have never considered the idea of launching their own startup. Each November, 10 million people take part in tens of thousands of activities, competitions, and events that inspire them to act and provide them with the knowledge, experience, and connections they need to succeed.
The closing of so many businesses and loss of jobs brought on by COVID-19 has been a wake-up call. One year later, nations are rallying to reboot our economies for a better, more sustainable, and equitable post-pandemic world. Meanwhile, they also are rethinking approaches to build back stronger and regenerate growth.
Global Entrepreneurship Week reaches beyond high-tech startup hubs like Silicon Valley, London, and Shanghai – envisioning one entrepreneurial ecosystem open to all, including smaller cities in emerging economies and under-represented communities, whether systemically marginalized, geographically hard-to-reach, or otherwise pushed aside or left out. National campaigns in 180+ countries are driven by local event organizers who plan activities tailored to their community’s needs. Activities can range from small, local gatherings to massive international competitions – or anything in between. Meanwhile, a collection of global signature activities provide partners with a ready-made offering and a set of instructions to plan local (or virtual) activities like a Startup Huddle event to crowdsource solutions to challenges faced by local startups, Speednetwork the Globe session to foster connections or even a Startup Nations Policy Dialogue to examine innovative policy approaches to stimulate new firm formation.
While GEW only takes place one week each year, the connections made are long-lasting. The campaign serves as an opportunity to collaborate and engage with organizations and individuals to celebrate and spotlight entrepreneurs, expose people to the path of entrepreneurship, help them get started and facilitate access to capital and the resources they need to succeed.
Global Entrepreneurship Week is powered by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a diverse collection of national host organizations in 180+ countries and 25,000 local partner organizations.
The Global Entrepreneurship Network operates programs, like Global Entrepreneurship Week, that make it easier for anyone, anywhere to start and scale a company. GEN divides its programs into four distinct categories: those intended to celebrate entrepreneurs and inspire others to follow in their footsteps; those intended to better understand the underlying conditions that best enable entrepreneurs to thrive; those intended to support entrepreneurs through proven policy and programmatic interventions; and those intended to connect entrepreneurs, ecosystem builders, and community leaders to strengthen local ecosystems around the world.
