Concurrent with the Global Enterprise Challenge hosted in Sydney Australia for all participants around the world, a number of students and organizers from northern hemisphere countries, England, Germany, Norway and Scotland will form a subgroup designated GEC EuroHub08 and travel to Mainz in Germany. This EuroHub will give the European teams the opportunity to take part in the Challenge by participating in an exciting and fascinating competition in a single place.  

The Honourable Julia Gillard, MP, Deputy Prime Minister of Australia will open the GEC event via a pre recorded video message. Ms Gillard was born in Barry, Wales and in 1966 she migrated to Australia with her parents, settling in Adelaide.

Following the 2007 Federal Election, Prime Minister Keven Rudd announced that Gillard would serve as Deputy Prime Minister; and as the Minister for Education, the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and also the Minister for Social Inclusion. She is the first woman - and the first foreign born person - to hold the position of Deputy Prime Minister. She is the highest ranking woman in the history of the Australian Government.