E Week India 2012 urges youth to ‘Invent the Future’ through entrepreneurship

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Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India, Republic of (Free-Press-Release.com) January 27, 2012 -- E Week India 2012 urges youth to ‘Invent the Future’ through entrepreneurship
 E Week theme calls upon young entrepreneurs to ‘Invent the Future’ by providing innovative solutions for the biggest problems
 Led by Entrepreneurship Cells in 540 academic institutes and their 80,000 student members across India
 Supported by 30 entrepreneurship organisations

Indore: Entrepreneurship Week India (E Week 2012, http://eweek.nenonline.org/) – the largest national entrepreneurship event that reaches out to lakhs of people to build awareness and support - will take place from the 11 to 18 February 2012. E Week India is run by the National Entrepreneurship Network, supported by the Wadhwani Foundation and is led by over 80,000 student members and 1200 faculty from NEN Entrepreneurship Cells (E Cells) at 540 member institutes.

The theme for E Week 2012 calls upon young people to ‘Invent the Future’ as successful entrepreneurs, by providing innovative solutions to address the many large issues that communities across the country strive to cope with: availability of clean water, garbage and waste management, accessible healthcare, reliable power and growing pollution. .

As a special feature of E Week - “EWeek@Schools” - will reach out to school students in the age group of 7-16 years in schools across the country. They will be introduced to the possibilities and ideas of entrepreneurship through the Rs. 50 exercise - an experiential business lesson, by college students and faculty from NEN E Cells.

The week-long campaign also involves more than 30 organizations that support entrepreneurship and corporate, business leaders, experts, non-profits and faculty leaders to inspire, encourage, and mentor students.

K.Srikrishna, Executive Director, National Entrepreneurship Network said, ‘We've seen entrepreneurship's growing popularity these last few years and it's gratifying to see ever more young entrepreneurs start companies. However it is time now to go beyond the low hanging fruit – the restaurants, the web design and software service companies. Now is the time to look at the biggest challenges that face us, which also offer the biggest opportunities for building high potential companies.” He added, “Great inventions and beginnings are often rooted in visionary ideas and a passion to jumpstart the world we want to create. We want this journey to start now, by addressing problems pertinent to our country. It is critical that entrepreneurial young people lead the charge with their innovative ideas.”

During E Week, participants on and off campuses across the country - students, entrepreneurs, faculty members, industry leaders and key members of the community will take the E Week Pledge and engage in thousands of events. These include competitions, expositions, educational movie screenings, leadership and motivation talks with successful entrepreneurs, panel discussions, business plan and skills-building workshops, business and tech bazaars, awareness campaigns and more. In addition, participants can sign up on the E Week website to share their experiences, view events information, and connect with the larger NEN community.

E Week will culminate on 18th February, 2012 with a gala Awards Ceremony in Bangalore. NEN member academic institutes will be chosen for the E Week India 2012 Championship Awards as well as 3 Special Awards: 1) E Week @ School Award 2) Nilima Rovshen Creativity and Innovation Award 3) Most Effective Public Awareness Campaign Award. Student representatives of the Award winners will be flown to Bangalore for the Awards Ceremony attended by students from various institutes, eminent people from the industry and the government.



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