Applications open for Global Entrepreneurship Summer School 2019

Thirty-five university students will seek to address the impact of climate change on the world’s oceans and waters

Dying coral reefs, acidification, dead zones 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 Global Entrepreneurship Summer School (GESS) 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,” says Carmen Di Rito, LifeCo UnLtd’s Chief Development Officer.

A total of 140 students will attend GESS, which is hosted in four different locations: Querétaro (Mexico), Munich (Germany), Shanghai (China) and Cape Town.

Di Rito says GESS promotes diversity, global networking and critical thinking by bringing together entrepreneurial-minded students from different fields of study from across the world to brainstorm and create sustainable solutions that can be turned into viable impact-business ideas.

GESS 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.

To attend GESS, or for more information go to https://globalsummerschool.org/application_/

or

http://globalsummerschool.org/capetown/ for Cape Town

Applications are open until 31 March 2019 (1pm CEST).

Global Entrepreneurship Summer School Dates

Querétaro, Mexico: 25 July – 31 July 2019

Shanghai, China: 28 August – 3 September 2019

Cape Town, South Africa: 8 September – 14 September 2019

Munich, Germany: 19 September – 25 September 2019