Social Entrepreneurship Competitions and Conferences

Triangle Health Innovation Challenge

Bringing together the Triangle’s best to build innovative solutions for improving healthcare. 

September 15- 17

Trent Semans Center for Health Education, Durham

See details at http://www.thincweekend.org 

Global Accelerator Learning Initiative launches first ever student competition

On September 18th, we’ll officially invite undergraduate and graduate students to answer a key question for the field of entrepreneurship by analyzing our unique, global dataset on early stage entrepreneurs. The winning submission will be published on www.galidata.org  and will be awarded a prize of $2,000. Plus up to two runner-up submissions may be awarded %500 each. The competition is open to individual and team submissions from universities around the world. Competition guidelines will be released on September 18th, and then submissions will be due November 3rd.  Global Accelerator Learning Initiative 

USD’s Center for Peace and Commerce Global Social Innovation Challenge

Colleges/universities world wide are invited to join the University of San Diego in the 8th year of student-driven social innovation. Can you imagine students from your university competing in sunny San Diego for $50,000+ in seed funding for their social venture while growing their global community of like-minded changemakers? USD provides the platform, a curriculum, and a global competition. Participating universities provide the students who are passionate about shaping a better world! Check out the website or schedule a call for more information. 

15th Annual Global Health & Innovation Conference, 

April 14-15, 2018 | Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Register for the Global Health & Innovation Conference by August 31 for a highly reduced registration rate (50% lower than regular). The Global Health & Innovation Conference at Yale, is the world’s leading and largest global health conferences as well as the largest social entrepreneurship conference, with 2,000 professionals and students from all 50 states and more than 55 countries. This must-attend, thought-leading conference convenes leaders, change makers, professionals and students from all sectors of global health, international development, and social entrepreneurship.