2014 Global Enterprise Experience for Students
Undergraduate-Jarushubbers, this is for you. I also participated in the 2004 and 2005 editions when I was an undergraduate. It helped me a lot as I gained experienced in multi-national, multi-racial team work. You get to work with other college students across all continents. It is very enlightening and exposing.
I was teamed up with students from China, Canada, Tahiti (don’t laugh), New Zealand and other conutries and we came up with a project. Winning teams also stand to receive cash prizes (as much as N120,000 per member). You will also be issued certificates of participation and letters of recommendation which you can use in your CV as you hunt for job after school. I still have the experience on my CV till now.
It is only for tertiary institution students (Universities and Polytechnics). Note also that registration is free.
If you’re not a student, please share so that it can reach the students.
Jarus
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You are invited to participate in the 2014 Global Enterprise Experience (www.geebiz.org) which will run from Wednesday March 26 –Wednesday April 16. This is an experiential learning event to develop skills in managing global teams with a business focus. It is free to enter.
You may wish to include next years’ contest as an element of one of your 2014 courses, or to offer it as a voluntary exercise for students’ personal and academic growth. Many universities around the world have embedded the contest into their programmes at both undergraduate and graduate level. It is currently being used as a core element of courses in international business, business communications, peace studies, innovation, international marketing, and cross cultural management.
The students will have three weeks to form a virtual team of eight students from four to eight countries to develop a business concept proposal. To date over 5200 students from 72 countries have participated. The 2014 challenge is to “Develop a six-page business concept proposal on a profitable product or service that addresses the needs of children and/or youth”.
The real challenge is to work as effective team members in cyberspace with students from different cultures, time zones, world views, and levels of wealth and poverty. Participant feedback is excellent with comments such as, “I learnt more in these three weeks than all my years at university.” Some participants have gone on to make a difference to their country and even their continent attributing their success to their participation in the contest.
Members of the champion team and the champion individual will each win NZ$1000 (about US$780). All participants who complete the journal and have their name on the team report receive a certificate and letter of commendation.
Participants can enrol betweenJanuary 8 and March 12, 2014 by logging onto the website (www.geebiz.org). To fit into your academic calendar, late enrolments can be accepted if we know in advance the approximate number of participants.
Please email me (deb@windeaters.co.nz) if you would like to discuss whether the Global Enterprise Experience is suitable to include in one of your programmes, or for samples of how some universities have included the programme in their course outlines and assessment. An A4 poster is available on www.geebiz.org/downloads/2014/
If this email has erroneously been sent to you, please reply with remove in the subject line so we can remove you from our database. If you are aware of somebody who may be interested in this opportunity for their students, we would be grateful if you forwarded this email.
More information, including samples of previous reports and journals, are available on the Global Enterprise Experience website (www.geebiz.org).
Kind regards
Deb Gilbertson
Director -Global Enterprise Experience
Te Kaihau Education Trust & Victoria University of Wellington
117 Stratton St, Normandale, Lower Hutt, New Zealand 5010
Ph: +64 4 589 5011 deb@windeaters.co.nz, www.geebiz.org
Tanxx much bt cld I allso get a reminder