Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) is the world’s biggest celebration of entrepreneurship, a collection of tens of thousands of activities, competitions, and events in 170+ countries each November aiming to make it easier for anyone, anywhere to start and scale a company.
Diversity is a driver of innovation and economies suffer if a nation or group of people are underrepresented or face structural barriers – the world needs more entrepreneurs.
On the second week of November, the Global Entrepreneurship Week gathered many actors of the ecosystem, institutions, and political figures who held different activities and events intending to inform and improve the entrepreneurship scene.
The following is a list of the main events held in alignment with the Global Entrepreneurship Week:
Academic Business Incubators sparking Innovation
The Minister of State for Entrepreneurship opened the doors of the Ministry to students, universities, and enterprises in various fields and categories to share the success stories drawn by the entrepreneurship/innovation incubators within them. Also, there was a follow-up with success stories to see their continuity and journey. The doors of the ministry remained open during the week enabling diverse activities.
Entrepreneurship Education Canvas: Designing Education Activating Students’ Entrepreneurial Mindset
The main aim of this workshop was to activate the entrepreneurial mindset of students and to teach them how to create value in uncertain, authentic contexts by allowing experimentation, risk-taking behavior, and failure.
During the workshop, a tool focusing on the didactics underlying entrepreneurial education interventions and programs by offering design principles that can be used across educational levels and domains was presented: Entrepreneurship Education Canvas (EEC), in which 11 design principles are organized in concrete building blocks or ‘categories’, stimulating an entrepreneurial way of working.
How can we design entrepreneurial education interventions and programs that stimulate the entrepreneurial mindset of students?
In what way can existing entrepreneurial education programs be improved?
The tool makes entrepreneurial education available to all, fueling discussion among educators on the design of entrepreneurial education.
Entrepreneurship Supporting Programs in Albania
The event introduced the programs that are happening or that will open soon, as well as shared the opportunities, which are offered to new ventures to develop their ideas.
Think global and go global right from the start — lessons from global tech advocates
Global tech advocates from Canada, France, Italy, the Netherlands, the UK, the Nordics, and emerging Europe shared their experiences of international collaboration, internationalization, and having a global mindset when starting an entrepreneur's career.
Startup Grind Tirana with Vasil Naçin (Agna Group)
Vasil Naçi (CEO and President of Agna Group), told his life story in business and of course the lessons learned on a journey over 30 years in business.
Women Entrepreneurs
An event dedicated to women entrepreneurs at the State Ministry of Entrepreneurship Protection.
AlbaniaTech Talks
This first episode of AlbaniaTech Talks was launched in the Global Entrepreneurship Week with some hot topics for the meantime such as Fintech, Cryptocurrencies, and the future of money. The guests gave a broad perspective around NFT and blockchain, how the financial sector is expected to drastically change in the upcoming years, and the way all of this will impact the individual.
Our energetic audience had some spicy questions after the whole discussion and the guests were more than open to giving answers. This is another key moment in AlbaniaTech Talks, the Q&A Session! Anyone can engage, anyone can ask questions.
Open Day of Information Technology
The Albanian Information Technology Association (AITA) and Gjergj Canco Vocational High School, in cooperation with AlbaniaTech, the platform of the Albanian ecosystem of Innovation and Technology, under the auspices of the project "Skills for Jobs", organized the Open Day of Information Technology near the school Gjergj Canco.
This activity was a good opportunity to bring together business actors, students, teachers, and the school to get acquainted with the curricula and to discover further collaborations in both employment and professional practices.
The participants were introduced to the new profiles of Information Technology, that respond to the growing needs of the labor market and skills, such as programming and multimedia, following already consolidated profiles such as data networks, and web development.
Junior Achievement Alumni Network Launch Event
An event from the Junior Alumni network and JAA program participants who shared their experiences in these programs.
Acceleration edition "Breakfast with the Founder"
An event from Uplift, breakfast with the founders and participants of the Uplift Accelerator.
Talking Session
An event from INNVEST about the new Academy IMAA(Innovation Management Academy in Albania). The consortium of IMAA consists of three key pillars: People, Projects, and ecosystems. Each of them provides an essential puzzle piece to the entrepreneurial journey in Albania, the region, and furthermore. It focused since its inception, beyond the methods, on the cultural aspects which create the mindset shift that is required to become a successful intrapreneur.
LiveMe Show and Podcast - "The truths of entrepreneurship"
LiveMe brought together a panel of entrepreneurs, mentors, and characters engaged in innovation and entrepreneurship to tell their own truths. A strong and impactful panel discussion that made the audience engage with the guests on a 2 hour-long talk.
LiveMe brought this new episode as an opening to its new season that is expected to bring much more panel discussion quite like this one.
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