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About the GEC
What is the Global Enterprise Challenge (GEC)
The Global Enterprise Challenge is a 24 hour enterprise challenge for young people aged 16-19. It gives young people the opportunity to develop their knowledge and experience of enterprise, through providing an environment where they can apply skills and develop their understanding in practical ways.Gordon McVie formerly of Careers Scotland developed the GEC in 2001. Since inception the GEC has gone from strength to strength, and in 2007 involved 12 countries with some 2000 students taking part from up to 140 schools and colleges worldwide.
The GEC is a two stage event
Stage 1
Stage 1 is a national event where teams compete for the right to represent their country in the international event. At the beginning of the 24 hours, the teams are given a challenge.In 2007 the challenge read:
The 17th Century English poet, John Donne, said, ‘No man is an island unto itself’, and with over 6 billion people on planet earth his words are as relevant today as they were three hundred years ago.
Everything we do impacts on everyone else.
Your Challenge is: “to produce a working model of an innovative game that will entertain, inform and educate 8-12 year olds about global citizenship”
Everything we do impacts on everyone else.
Your Challenge is: “to produce a working model of an innovative game that will entertain, inform and educate 8-12 year olds about global citizenship”
The teams must then work as a team to create an idea, a prototype, a business plan and a presentation. Stage one concludes with the judging of the national competition and the selection of the national representative team.
Stage 2
Stage 2is an international event where the work of each national winning team is submitted via the web to an international judging panel, who look for the winning combination of teamwork skills, an innovative approach and an outstanding standard of product, prototype, plan and presentation.
