GEN Platform
The GEN platform offers a vast array of programs and activities across the globe. GEN’s extensive footprint of national operations and global verticals in policy, research, and programs ensure members have uncommon access to the most relevant knowledge, networks, communities, and programs relative to size of economy, maturity of ecosystem, language, culture, geography and more.
GEN Thailand's Activities
Entrepreneurship Education
for High Schools
Pitch@School Thailand is an entrepreneurial education and business pitch competition designed for high school students.
Many students graduating lacks the skills and analytical ability to work through the challenges in the workplace.
Entrepreneurial education nurtures young students to develop their initiative and helps them to be more creative and self-confident in whatever they undertake and to act in a socially responsible way. It aids students to think outside the box and nurture unconventional talents and skills.
World's largest Entrepreneurship Competition
The Entrepreneurship World Cup (EWC) is an international competition for entrepreneurs from all over the world with all kinds of start-ups, whether in the initial, idea, or growth stage. The cup has around 175,000 entrepreneurs from 200 countries.
The competition delivers a total of USD $ 5 million in prizes and provides participants with new investment opportunities, as well as commercial connections and different forms of advice.
Creative Business Competition Thailand
Creative Business Cup (CBC) Competition is a leading global competition for creative startups and businesses. National winners get access to training and resources, enhancing their visibility and working to connect them to mentors and potential investors.
Every year since 2012, creative enterprises and startups from Thailand have participated in CBC Thailand and winners have represented Thailand and competed at the CBC finals in Copenhagen, Denmark
Digital Badges Awards
GEN is partnered with the Inspiring Digital Enterprise Award, known as iDEA is an international award-winning programme that helps you develop digital, enterprise and employability skills for free.
Through our series of online challenges, you can win career-enhancing badges, unlock new opportunities and, ultimately, gain industry-recognized Awards that help you stand out from the crowd.
iDEA badges are interactive online modules, created in consultation with industry experts that you can access for free, on any device, anywhere in the world.
Help the world to understand, value and support dyslexia.
A study of self-made millionaires in the U.K. found that 40 percent were dyslexic. Former Cisco CEO Chambers estimates that “25 percent of CEOs are dyslexic, but many don’t want to talk about it.”
Dyslexic minds see the world differently. They think creatively, laterally, often solving problems others can’t. They have the skills of the future. And they’ve transformed our past, inventing everything from the lightbulb to the iPhone.
But 80% are never spotted at school. So they never truly understand their full potential.
We can – and must – change this.
Our mission is to train every teacher to spot, support and empower every dyslexic child.
Highway to 100 Unicorns
A collaboration between GEN Thailand and Microsoft, innovators and entrepreneurs from a total of 16 countries (Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, New Zealand, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam) were invited to be a part of the Highway to a 100 Unicorns initiative.
Startups who submitted their application for Emerge X competitions in their countries were awarded free GitHub and Azure credits and focused business and technology workshops.
Three finalists per country will benefit from a year-long mentorship with technical and business deep dives, a Founder Bootcamp over 3 days, access to enterprise clients globally through Microsoft’s unique co-sell program as well as opportunities to interact with Microsoft experts and industry stalwarts.
Pitch@School Students' International Startup Pairing (ISP) Programme
Pitch@school's students' International Startup Pairing Programme (ISP) offers a unique opportunity for Thai students to team-up with students from other countries to create international startups.
Students from participating schools in Thailand and in other countries form startup teams to solve real-world problems and submit their pitch decks to compete at the Pitch@school ISP competition in Bangkok, Thailand.
Top teams selected will have the chance to attend a Bootcamp and compete at the Pitch@school competition in Bangkok at the end of the year
Online Course to Scale-up Creative Businesses
Creative Business Academy Asia Pacific is an online Business Development and Internationalisation course for Cultural and Creative Industries startups in the Asia Pacific regiona.
The academy, which is free of charge, will improve your business skills and help you understand the opportunities and challenges in front of you. The trainers are experts and partners of the global Creative Business Network from all over the world.
For the Creative Business Academy Americas takes an innovative educational approach, combining both the latest findings of educational science with the newest technological solutions.
Join GEW by attending or organizing an event this November and tell us about it
Global Entrepreneurship Week is a celebration of innovators who dream big and launch startups that bring ideas to life.
Each third week of November, GEW reaches millions of people of all ages and backgrounds through local, national and global events and activities. From large-scale startup competitions and workshops to small, community discussions – GEW reaches new audiences and connects participants to a network that can help them take the next step, no matter where they are on their entrepreneurial journey.
