Unlock Your Community's Potential. Show The World What It Can Do.
Every community has people with ideas, skills, and ambition who've never had the moment — or the invitation — to act on them. Global Entrepreneurship Week changes that. It's a moment to turn local potential into opportunity, and put your community on the global map.
Unlock the potential. Show what's possible. And say it out loud:
Entrepreneurs thrive here.
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THE OPPORTUNITY
Turn curiosity into action in your community.
The talent exists. The ambition exists. What's missing is the moment that makes entrepreneurship feel like a real option — not just for people who already run companies, but for everyone else who has never seen problem-solving as a career path. There are 34 million people in OECD countries alone who would be starting businesses today if their social group started companies at the same rate as men aged 30-49. The potential is there. It just hasn't been unlocked yet. And the people that entrepreneurship is least likely to reach have so much to offer.
THE CORE MESSAGE
Entrepreneurs thrive here.
The campaign theme is designed to open doors, create opportunities, and make a statement. When your organization joins Global Entrepreneurship Week, you're doing more than hosting an event. You're adding your voice to a global declaration — made by schools, libraries, local governments, businesses, and community groups in 200 countries simultaneously — that entrepreneurs thrive here. In your neighborhood. In your community. Among the people you serve every day.
That declaration matters. It changes how your community sees opportunities. And it changes how the world sees your community.
PROVEN IMPACT
We're not just raising awareness. We're changing behavior.
Post-campaign data shows measurable shifts in business formation, confidence, and ecosystem connection among participants.
55%
started a business within one year of attending
39%
are inspired to start a business in the future
10M+
People reached globally
40,000+
Events worldwide connect citizens to programs, mentors, investors, and support networks.
HOW IT WORKS
A Global Campaign, Locally Owned
Global Entrepreneurship Week gives you a tested, production-ready foundation — so the work you put in goes into your community, not into building assets from scratch.
Step 01
Register as an Event Organizer
Create or update a GEN user profile and add information about your organization.
Step 02
Plan Your Actiities
Organize events, activations, and awareness campaigns to reach potential new entrepreneurs in your community. Add your events to the Global Entrepreneurship Week calendar while logged in to your GEN user profile.
Step 03
Announce Together
Partners around the world will announce their campaigns at the same time. Leverage our toolkits to join our global announcement.
Step 04
Activate in November
Run events and campaigns, generate earned media, connect your ecosystem — and join 200 countries in a coordinated global moment that amplifies national efforts.
WHAT PARTNERS RECEIVE
Everything you need to get started. Nothing holding you back from making it your own.
Global Entrepreneurship Week amplifies the work you're already doing — helping you reach new audiences, giving you a global stage, a shared brand, and a coordinated moment that generates media, partnerships, and pipeline.
Production-ready toolkit
Brand guidelines, editable visual templates, event and campaign ideas, and audience persona guides.
A global network
Every organizer joins a worldwide peer network — opening doors to cross-border collaboration, shared learning, and visibility with investors and policymakers.
Measurable pipeline impact
Global Entrepreneurship Week events consistently convert curiosity into action. 55% of attendees started a business within a year.
Funder and partner visibility
Demonstrate community reach and mission impact to the funders, governments, and partners who evaluate your program's relevance and scale.
COMMUNITIES IN ACTION
Organizations of all kinds are leading the way.
Libraries, schools, chambers of commerce, local governments, cultural centers, community groups, and more leverage Global Entrepreneurship Week to create new opportunities for their communities, build local pride, and show what's possible where they are.
"Global Entrepreneurship Week is a galvanizing moment."
Asheesh Advani CEO, Junior Achievement Worldwide
Get Started
Join organizations from around the world — and activate the next wave of problem solvers in your community.
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