130 days left until Global Enterpreneurship Week 2010 starts globally. Last year, there were over 32,000 events run in 88 countries, attended by more than 7.5 million people. In the UK, over 529,000 people attended 4,812 events.

Global Entrepreneurship Week is a worldwide movement of entrepreneurial people, with millions unleashing their enterprising talents and turning their ideas into reality. Find out what happened during Global Entrepreneurship Week 2009.

Global Entrepreneurship Week began life as Enterprise Week in the UK  back in 2004. When news of the phenomenal success of Enterprise Week in the UK  spread the globe, lots of other countries got excited at the potential of running similar initiatives in their own countries. So in 2008, Enterprise UK  and the Kauffman Foundation (the world’s largest entrepreneurship foundation based in the US) founded the very first Global Entrepreneurship Week.

It’s more than just a week

Global Entrepreneurship Week is an opportunity to showcase and celebrate all the amazing work that goes on year-round.

Partners use Global Entrepreneurship Week to launch something new, showcase their projects, or just generally raise the profile of entrepreneurship in their locality. They do this because we all recognise that entrepreneurship is a force for good. It can lift people out of poverty, enable people to take control of their own lives, or simply turn their passions into profit.

Activities range from enterprise competitions to talks from local role models to large scale conferences.

Learn more: www.gew.org.uk