The Youth Citizen Entrepreneurship Competition

The Youth Citizen Entrepreneurship Competition is an exciting new opportunity to develop your innovative ideas and projects to create positive change in your community and the world.

With support and feedback from peers around the world, you can turn your passion for a better world into reality.

The Youth Citizen Entrepreneurship Competition is an international contest launched by The Goi Peace Foundation, Stiftung Entrepreneurship (Berlin) and UNESCO. The competition provides a global platform for young entrepreneurs who aspire to create positive change in their communities.

By highlighting the best examples of youth entrepreneurship, the competition aims to empower the young generation to take the initiative in social innovation and become pioneers in building a harmonious and sustainable society. With their innovative ideas and leadership, these global citizens will tackle some of the key challenges of today and offer a model of the entrepreneurial potential that will fuel our future.

All participants will receive free training at the online Entrepreneurship Campus. This training provides methods and techniques for developing ideas into solid business models, to turn a budding idea into a fully developed concept, or to improve on an existing business model.

Eligibility

You are eligible to enter, if:

1. You are between the ages of 15 and 30
   
   AND
2. You 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, You are operating such an enterprise in the form of a business, a non-profit organization, or an informal program

AND

3. You are able to submit your entries and make presentations in English.

Entry criteria:

1. You are requested to submit your entries in one of the following two categories:
• Best Ideas Category:
  Innovative ideas and plans for an enterprise (It must be a new and original idea yet to be fully implemented by the entrant or by others.)
• Best Projects Category:
  Already existing enterprise which has demonstrated social impact
2. Submissions from teams are welcome. However, the idea may only be submitted by one team member.
3. You may submit more than one idea/project entry.
4. You are welcome to enter ideas or projects which have won other prizes or competitions.

Deadline for entries: June 30, 2014

For more information and application please visit the Youth Citizen Entrepreneurship Competition page.