FAQs

What is Global Entrepreneurship Week?
What is the Enterprising Streak Campaign?
How can I encourage young people to be more enterprising?
What’s the difference between Enterprising Streak and Make Your Mark?
Who is Enterprise UK?
emda's role in Global Entrepreneurship Week

What is Global Entrepreneurship Week?
Global Entreprenurship Week is about helping young people to develop the confidence, skills and inspiration to turn their own ideas into reality. It is a national celebration to inspire people in their teens and twenties to unleash their enterprise skills. It promotes business start-ups, social enterprise and young people launching new ideas in existing organisations.

What is the Enterprising Streak Campaign
'Enterprising Streak' is the East Midlands campaign supporting the international Global Entrepreneurship Week programme, which encourages young people to be enterprising. The campaign aims to unleash the enterprising streak of the region's youth and to stimulate creative ideas, giving young people the confidence to do something new and enterprising in their lives or careers.

How can I encourage young people to be more enterprising?
Nobody is going to tell you what to do - but we're happy to give you some ideas. Importantly, it’s not just about encouraging young people to think of themselves as the next Branson or Sugar’ it is also about enabling them to see the impact of their actions, that by using their leadership and team working skills, by spotting opportunities and taking measured or considered risks, an idea can be developed in to reality.

We'd suggest that you challenge your students, employees or colleagues to see what they want to do. It might be something as simple as planning and running an event to raise funds for a local charity. Take a look at what other people are doing in our events calendar.

What’s the difference between Enterprising Streak and Make Your Mark?
Enterprising Streak is the East Midlands Regional campaign, Make Your Mark is the National campaign. Make Your Mark is the branded name of Enterprise UK. Enterprising Streak and Make Your Mark share similar aims and collaborate on projects as appropriate.

The East Midlands branding was informed by the views of young people and we aim to consult them on a regular basis about the campaign.

Who is Enterprise UK?
Formelry known as Enterprise Insight, Enterprise UK is the organisation responsible for promoting Global Entrepreneurship Week across the UK. They are a coalition founded by the UK's main business organisations in partnership with leading enterprise development organisations with the aim of promoting youth enterprise.

The policy function at Enterprise UK is to raise the level and quality of debate amongst policy-makers and practitioners on the development of the UK's enterprise culture, and facilitate the exchange of ideas and lessons.

Enterprise UK's strategy covers four core areas:

1. Inspire (Enterprise Week, Enterprising Young Brits, the Make Your Mark Challenge, Make your Mark in Film)
2. Inform (website, partners)
3. Connect (young people networks)
4. Influence (Policy report, Policy conference and qualitative research).

East Midlands Development Agency (emda) takes a regional lead in communicating the campaign week events across the East Midlands, to ensure that local partnerships are developed and practical support is provided where needed. We work closely with Enterprise UK and recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding to enhance our collaboration.

emda's role in Global Entreprenurship Week
emda's role is to provide a central point of communication and information for agencies, educators, businesses and individuals who wish to take part in Global Entrepreneurship Week.

It is not our role to tell anyone what to do! Through e-mailed updates, we will share information and encourage people to take part. Our involvement with the campaign results from our passion to develop the enterprise skills of young people, to ensure that the region has a pool of entrepreneurial talent in years to come.

Local partners are asked to look to their own strengths and develop their own ideas that fit into the campaign's desire to promote enterprise (both enterprise skills and the concept of self-employment/business start-up).