Youth Citizen Entrepreneurship Competition

The Goi Peace Foundation, Stiftung Entrepreneurship and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization - UNESCO have launched the Youth Citizen Entrepreneurship Competition.

The competition provides a global platform for young entrepreneurs who aspire to create positive change in their communities.

Participants worldwide should:
• be from 15 to 30 years old
• have an innovative idea for an enterprise which contributes to the sustainable development of your community (in a field such as the environment, education, health, poverty reduction, peace building, cultural diversity, sustainable energy, food security, sustainable trade, the elderly, empowerment of women and youth) or operate such an enterprise in the form of a business, a non-profit organization, or an informal program.
• be able to submit their entries and make presentations in English.

Entries should be submitted in one of the following two categories:
• Best Ideas Category: innovative ideas and plans for an enterprise
• Best Projects Category: already existing enterprise which has demonstrated social impact.

All participants will receive a free online training at the Entrepreneurship Campus, and get their entries brushed up by peers and prospective experts.

The 10 entries receiving most public votes in each of the two categories will be considered as finalists, from which a panel of Judges will pick the Grand Prize winners in each category. In addition, the People’s Choice Prize will be given to the entry with the largest number of votes in each of the two categories.

Deadline for submissions: 30/06/2014

Further information:
http://eurodesk.eu