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USC program to empower young entrepreneurs
University students from across Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom are gearing up for an exciting four-day residential entrepreneurship program which will start at the University of the Sunshine Coast on Tuesday 18 September.
The visionary Enterprisers program, developed by the University of Cambridge and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to empower young entrepreneurs, will involve 55 students, five high school teachers and a team of 18 facilitators.
The students hail from five Queensland universities, from Southern Cross University in NSW, the University of Ballarat in Victoria, Otago University in New Zealand and from four UK universities.
The Enterprisers program will be led and facilitated by MIT Sloan School of Management’s Professor Neal Hartman and the Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning at the University of Cambridge Professor Shai Vyakarnam.
Organiser Colin Graham, the CEO of USC’s Innovation Centre, said these lead facilitators would provide invaluable insights about identifying and seizing opportunities, building social networks and teams, being creative and making things happen.
“The facilitators have extensive entrepreneurial and business experience and will provide good role models for the students to learn from their behaviour and attitudes,” he said.
“For many of the students, this will be the single biggest thing impacting on them in a five-year period. It’s not often that you’ll get this group of students, facilitators and other business people together.
Mr Graham said this was the second Enterprisers program to be held in Australia, after USC staged the first one in February this year with help from the University of Cambridge team.
Details about the Enterprisers program are available at the USC Innovation Centre website: http://www.innovation-centre.com.au/
– Terry Walsh