Chance to make a big difference
DOUGLASDALE – Apply now for this year's Global Entrepreneurship Summer School and you could have the chance to change the world.
Last year, Lulama Maqubela, an accounting student at Monash South Africa and a resident of Douglasdale, earned a chance to attend the Global Entrepreneurship Summer School (Gess) in Cape Town.
Applications for this year’s event are now open.
The course is being held in Cape Town from 8 until 14 September and is founded on the belief that entrepreneurial thinking is a powerful tool for a better and sustainable future.
Dying coral reefs, acidification, dead zones (low-oxygen areas in the world’s oceans and large lakes caused by excessive nutrient pollution from human activities) and rising sea levels are among the many threats posed by global warming to the world’s oceans and waters.
Social impact enterprise LifeCo Unltd SA, in partnership with Social Entrepreneurship Akademie, is inviting entrepreneurially-minded South African university students to apply to the summer school for the opportunity to come up with viable, innovative business ideas to solve these environmental challenges.
“Gess strives to create a young generation of social entrepreneurs who are acutely aware of their responsibility towards global resource use and are able to create high impact businesses that solve environmental pressures,” said Carmen Di Rito, LifeCo UnLtd’s chief development officer.
One-hundred and forty students globally will attend the school which is hosted in four different locations: Querétaro (Mexico), Munich (Germany), Shanghai (China) and Cape Town.
Di Rito added that the school promoted diversity, global networking and critical thinking by bringing together entrepreneurial-minded students from different fields of study from across the world. For more on this, visit www.fourwaysreview.co.za
to brainstorm and create sustainable solutions that could be turned into viable impact-business ideas.
The school is based on the UN Sustainable Development Goals which are broken down to address regional challenges for relevance. GESS Cape Town 2019 is endorsed by the Department of Higher Education and Training through the Entrepreneurship Development programme in Higher Education.
The application is completed online and asks for basic biographical details, motivations as to why you would be an ideal participant and space to describe environmental concerns in your country and how you would want to address them.
Applications close 31 March at 1pm.
To apply: www.globalsummerschool.org/application_/
To find out more about this year’s event in Cape Town: www.globalsummerschool.org/capetown/
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