The Youth Citizen Entrepreneurship Competition is an international program launched by The Goi Peace Foundation,  Stiftung Entrepreneurship (Berlin) and UNESCO.
The competition provides a global platform for young entrepreneurs who aspire to create positive change in their communities

The Youth Citizen Entrepreneurship Competition is organized by:

The Goi Peace Foundation, Tokyo (Japan)

The Goi Peace Foundation is a public benefit organization established in Tokyo, Japan in 1999. Its mission is to support the evolution of humanity toward a sustainable and harmonious new civilization by promoting consciousness, values and wisdom for creating peace, and by building cooperation among individuals and organizations across diverse fields, including education, science, culture and the arts.

Its activities include educational and awareness-raising programs, research and studies, international collaboration and networking, and dissemination through publications and other media. The Foundation is an NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. It also maintains official relations with UNESCO, and co-organizes the International Essay Contest for Young People with UNESCO.

www.goipeace.or.jp

Stiftung Entrepreneurship (Foundation for Entrepreneurship), Berlin (Germany)

Stiftung Entrepreneurship was set up in Berlin, Germany in 2001 with capital and facilities provided by Dr. Günter Faltin (80%) and Dr. Dietrich Winterhager (20%), professors at the Free University of Berlin. Its aim is to foster a positive environment for the culture of entrepreneurship worldwide.

Entrepreneurship is a perspective on human activity that seeks to bring creativity and courage, imagination and initiative, to the tasks of starting and running business ventures and social organizations. Entrepreneurship offers an opportunity for unconventional ideas and views. It aims at achieving success through transcending established structures, and it attracts artists, mavericks and all those who formerly were marginal to the business world. The economic and cultural development of a society depends on business initiatives that apply economic, social and artistic creativity to existing problems. Entrepreneurship develops opportunities through a creative process.

www.entrepreneurship.de

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization – UNESCO, Paris (France)

In 1945, UNESCO was created in order to respond to the firm belief of nations, forged by two world wars in less than a generation, that political and economic agreements are not enough to build a lasting peace. Peace must be established on the basis of humanity’s moral and intellectual solidarity. Today, UNESCO’s message has never been more important. We must create holistic policies that are capable of addressing the social, environmental and economic dimensions of sustainable development.

UNESCO is known as the “intellectual” agency of the United Nations. At a time when the world is looking for new ways to build peace and sustainable development, people must rely on the power of intelligence to innovate, expand their horizons and sustain the hope of a new humanism. UNESCO exists to bring this creative intelligence to life; for it is in the minds of men and women that the defences of peace and the conditions for sustainable development must be built.