Global Entrepreneurship Week is a new event celebrating entrepreneurship around the world and engaging youth in the entrepreneurial movement.

Here's some information from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation on this week's activities I thought you may be interested in seeing (see below)--

From hip hop to public policy, innovative minds at every age will enjoy first-ever global celebration

Washington, D.C. (Nov. 14, 2008) — Global Entrepreneurship Week, a worldwide, open-source movement that celebrates entrepreneurship, continues to grow its list of interesting events, celebrity ambassadors and challenges for entrepreneurs. Check out www.UnleashingIdeas.org for all the details.

The Week, Nov. 17-23, celebrates the spirit of entrepreneurship and encourages young people to become more innovative and entrepreneurial. More than 600 activities are being organized across the United States. Founding sponsors for Global Entrepreneurship Week are the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in the United States and Make Your Mark in the United Kingdom.

“Innovation is the key to propelling nations beyond current economic conditions,” said Carl Schramm, president and CEO of the Kauffman Foundation. “The Week will offer education, inspiration and fun for aspiring entrepreneurs of any age, and anywhere in the world.”

The open-source nature of the Week has given local organizations license to create and promote fun events in their cities and towns. Two weeks ago, the Week’s leaders offered 10 cool things going on during the Week.

Here are 10 additional cool things to do during Global Entrepreneurship Week:

Speednetwork the Globe
Plan a speednetworking session in your community to share ideas and make connections – fast. All that is needed is a group of people, a whistle and a topic. Organizers hope that those participating in networking sessions will start talking about ideas to address some of society’s biggest issues. Speednetworking will give every participant the opportunity to create a new network of useful contacts with this event. Partners hosting the speednetworking session can customize it to their group. To learn more, visit www.unleashingideas.org/speednetwork.

WomenSpeak
National sponsor, IBM, is presenting two WomenSpeak Live Webcasts with a renowned panel of women business owners and women business leaders focused on "Women Entrepreneurs Leading Innovation Globally". The event includes a pair of global Webcasts, moderated by Marilyn Johnson, IBM, VP, Market Development, featuring top women business leaders highlighting leadership roles women are taking in bringing innovation to the marketplace. A 10:15 a.m. (EST) Webcast on Nov. 19 will feature: Maria Contreras-Sweet, PROMERICA Bank; Virginia P'an, China Pacific Partners LLC & TransCapital Group LLC; Bola Olabisi, Global Women Inventions & Innovation Network; and Marsha Firestone, Women Presidents' Organization. A 7:15 p.m. (EST) Webcast features: Chin-Ning Chu, Asian Marketing Consultants; Sharon Hadary, Center for Women's Business Research; Hiroko Tatebe, Global Organization for Leadership and Diversity; and Elizabeth Thornton, Entrepreneurship Faculty Babson College.

Entrepreneurship Gets its Groove
The Hip Hop and Entrepreneurship Forum at 7 p.m. on Nov. 19 at Penn Valley Community College in Kansas City, Mo., will examine hip-hop's cultural impact on U.S. business. The discussion, which features hip-hop pioneers Chuck D and P. Miller (formerly Master P), will focus on the cultural transformation hip hop has generated through music, fashion and lifestyle. The town hall meeting will also highlight the entrepreneurial opportunities that hip-hop has created.

The Chicago Forecast
Sponsored by Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center, the inaugural Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Forecast will discuss next year’s economy for Chicago’s entrepreneurs, the outlook for raising capital, international opportunities for local entrepreneurs and Chicago’s positioning for technology entrepreneurs. The panel discussion, at 5:30 p.m. on Nov. 18 at the Park Hyatt Hotel, includes Steve Kaplan, University of Chicago’s Neubauer family professor of entrepreneurship and finance; Anil Kumar, president and co-chairman, Quinnox; Cheryl Rosner, president and CEO, TicketsNow. Visit www.chicagolandchamber.org for details.

Entrepreneurship Unleashed - Chapman and Beyond!
Chapman University, in Orange, Calif., is sponsoring a week-long celebration of more than 20 events, including discussions for young entrepreneurs, women entrepreneurs and a film festival dedicated to entrepreneurship. For the entire list of Chapman University events, visit www.unleashingideas.org.

$5 Challenge
In this competition, sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Entrepreneurs’ Society, teams of students will have three days and $5 to generate as much money as possible. Students can register at noon on Nov. 17 in the William Pitt Union Ballroom. Teams will document what they do with pictures and present their success at noon on Nov. 20. For more information, visit www.pittesociety.com.

From Poverty to Entrepreneurship
Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition (GSEC) encourages students from around the world to find creative, unorthodox solutions to problems of poverty in the developing world. GSEC will engage creative minds across disciplines and encourage less conventional business solutions to global poverty. GSEC, which began on Nov. 12 and concludes on Nov. 21, is open to all students at accredited academic institutions around the world. GSEC teams receive guidance from mentors, coaches and judges, and compete for prize money. For details, visit http://foster.washington.edu/gsec/index.shtml.

YES to Entrepreneurship
The Aspen Institute Youth Entrepreneurship Strategy Group (YES Group) and NFTE Office of Public Policy will launch the I SAID YES! campaign of national leaders saying YES! to entrepreneurship in America's Schools at 8 a.m. on Nov. 18 at the Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2661, in Washington, D.C. The launch will include offering a Policymakers Action Guide to assist policymakers in bringing youth entrepreneurship education to their cities, states and nationally. The goal of the YES Group is to develop a concrete, viable strategy to advance the teaching of youth entrepreneurship education in high schools of low-income communities nationwide, while prompting public discussion and action at the city, state and federal levels on teaching youth entrepreneurship in our nation’s schools. For more information, visit www.aspeninstitute.org/yesg.

Innovative Storytelling
The Innovation & Collaboration Learning Cafe Series encourages participants to share success stories of creative ideas that have been transformed into innovations in their workplaces, their classrooms, their communities and their lives. The first session in the series is at 8:30 a.m. on Nov. 18 at the Pyle Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. For more information and to register for the first of the three-part series, visit www.ohrd.wisc.edu/reg/catalog_course_detail.asp?course_key=22307.

More … Mad Mentor
The New York Stock Exchange, one of the Week’s global sponsors, will host Mentoring Madness at 10 a.m., Friday, Nov. 21. The event will include a panel with Russell Simmons, music mogul and entrepreneur; Linda McMahon, CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment; and Peter Thum, co-founder of Ethos Water. They will discuss how they got started, their challenges and advise the next generation of entrepreneurs. Alexis Glick, from Fox News, will moderate the discussion. The event will be Webcast at www.unleashingideas.org/mentor....

For a complete list of activities, please visit www.UnleashingIdeas.org.

About Global Entrepreneurship Week
With the goal to inspire young people to embrace innovation, imagination and creativity, Global Entrepreneurship Week will encourage youth to think big, turn their ideas into reality, and make their mark. From Nov. 17-23, 2008, millions of young people around the world will join a growing movement to generate new ideas and seek better ways of doing things. Thousands of activities are being planned in more than 75 countries around the world. Global Entrepreneurship Week is: founded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the Make Your Mark campaign; sponsored by NYSE Euronext, IBM and Ernst & Young; and, supported by JA Worldwide, Endeavor, Entrepreneurs’ Organization, DECA, YPO-WPO, National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship, Young Americas Business Trust, YES - European Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs, Department for Business Enterprise & Regulatory Reform, AIESEC, Youth Employment Services, The Prince’s Youth Business International. To view a complete list of participating countries and organizations or to learn more, visit www.unleashingideas.org.