ThinkYoung launched FAIL2SUCCEED campaign

by Marieke Vandenberghe & Spiridoula Sermentzeli *

To kick off the campaign, a debate on entrepreneurial failure was held in the European Parliament on Thursday July 11th. Speakers at this debate were Philippe De Backer, MEP for ALDE Group, Marko Curavić, Head of Unit 'Entrepreneurship', DG Enterprise and Industry, European Commission and Isabelle Rabier Founder and CEO of Dermance. Andrea Gerosa, Founder and Chief Thinker of ThinkYoung, moderated the debate.

Fail2Succeed was launched alongside the fourth edition of the Entrepreneurship Summer School in Brussels, in which ThinkYoung organized this together with Google and the European Institute of Industrial Leadership. The Entrepreneurship Summer School has brought 100 young aspiring entrepreneurs, coming from different countries to Brussels, to learn directly from experienced and successful entrepreneurs. During the debate organized at the European Parliament, interesting questions and proposals arose from participants and speakers on entrepreneurial failure. The main points discussed will be included by ThinkYoung in its Fail2Succeed campaign.

From September 2013 ThinkYoung will start conducting research in all EU member states on young people’s perception on failure. This research will go hand in hand with an audio visual documentary that will put a face and a story behind the numbers, giving real life cases of young Europeans that are overcoming failure. The findings will be presented in a series of conferences across Europe. Moreover, ThinkYoung will present a policy paper with the findings of the research to the European Commission.

Hong Kong

In August ThinkYoung is launching a pioneering edition of the Entrepreneurship Summer School in Hong Kong (12th -16th August 2013) to enhance cooperation between young Europeans and Asians. ThinkYoung has already attracted the following speakers: Raphael Cohen (Founder of Hotel Quickly), Jennifer Chan (Founder of Delta Think), Robert van Hunsel (Founder of Media Group Asia ltd), Carola van der Bruinhorst (Founder of Hong Kong office of Loyens & Loeff), Cheryl Wilson (Founder of Charitable Choice) and Tin Hang Liu (Founder of SEOLAB and Cityfan).

APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN!! www.entrepreneurshipsummerschool.asia  

About ThinkYoung

ThinkYoung is the first European think-tank concerned about young Europeans. Started in 2007 we have offices in Brussels and Geneva. We do researches, documentary movies and projects about, for and with young people. Our five fields of action are Entrepreneurship, EU-Asia, Education, Energy-Environment and Enlargement.

* Both authors are Media Officers at ThinkYoung