Global Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge

 The Global Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge (GYEC) is an online 12-hour business idea competition for high school students. You can participate from anywhere as long as you have internet access. 

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The GYEC aims to inspire young people's entrepreneurial spirit and enhance their understanding and experience in the field of business. It provides an opportunity for teams of high school students from around the world to address significant global problems through innovative and sustainable business ideas. Additionally, they learn to apply their knowledge of science and technology in a practical manner.

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At the GYEC, you will receive a challenge at 8:00 am on the day of the competition, and you will present your business idea in a 2-page business plan and a 3-minute video, which you need to submit within 12 hours (by 20:00). The challenge is related to social issues that we all share as global citizens, such as poverty, hunger, education, energy, and climate change. Your task is to come up with an innovative business idea to address these issues in a sustainable way using science and technology. You will not know what the challenge will be until the day of the competition..

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To register for the competition, participants must form a team of up to 8 eligible students. Ideally, the team should have a diverse range of complementary skills and knowledge in areas such as science, technology, business, marketing, and communication. Your competition journey begins when you select your team members!

• Participants must be high school students aged 14 to 18
• Teams must have a minimum of 3 students and a maximum of 8 students.
• Only one team is from each high school is allowed to compete in the final round
• There is a 3-team maximum number of each country's participation.
• Teams must ensure a venue suitable for the online challenge with reliable internet access and e-mail capability.  We encourage team members to gather and work in the same physical location.
• Each time must have 1 adult supervisor who must be a school official, a professional from a company, or a guardian of one of the team members.

• March 21st, 2025 (Japan Time)

• Teams must determine that they meet eligibility requirements before filling in the application form and sending it to GYEC@entreplanet.org
• Pay the registration fee of 10,000 yen per team by March 21st Japan Time via Paypal, Wise.com, or wire transfer to Japan Post Bank or Bank of Kyoto.
• Applicants from Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, or Turkey should contact GYEC international partners here to apply to be a GYEC representative team.

• After the application deadline of March 21st, 2025 has passed, the team leader will receive the rules & guidelines, a team number, and the competition time table for their country.

• Applications open on February 1, 2025

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