Student global citizenship experience

2017 Global Enterprise Experience (www.geebiz.org) will run from May 3 – May 24 and this is an online learning experience to develop student skills in managing global teams, social entrepreneurship and global citizenship. It is free to enter, and no travel is involved. 

No action is needed to participate at this stage. To date 560 universities in 103 countries have participated, some embedding the contest into their programmes at both undergraduate and graduate level, and others offering it to students as a voluntary experience. It is currently being used as a core element of programmes in international business, business communications, peace studies, innovation, international marketing, leadership, and cross cultural management.

The students will have three weeks to form a virtual team of eight students from six to eight countries. The 2017 challenge is to “Develop a six-page business concept proposal on a profitable product or service that applies appropriate technology to enhance wellbeing”.  The topic is deliberately broad, so teams have full creative rein to design projects to perhaps focus on poverty, children, elderly, disabled or remote communities, with projects as varied as environment, energy, water, communication or food among dozens of other possibilities. The project may focus on developed countries, developing countries or between countries. The intense 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. 

Members of the champion team and the champion individual will each win NZ$1000 (about US$700). All participants who complete the journal and have their name on the team report receive a certificate and letter of commendation. 

Participants can enrol by logging onto the website www.geebiz.org between March 1 and April 19, 2017. To fit into your academic calendar, late enrolments can be accepted if we know in advance the approximate number of participants.

More information, including samples of previous reports and journals, are available on the Global Enterprise Experience website (www.geebiz.org).

Contact: 

Deb Gilbertson, Director

Global Enterprise Experience

A Victoria University of Wellington Project

Website: www.geebiz.org 

Email: deb@windeaters.co.nz