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EDUCATION Partners 

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Partner With Us _ Education

Empowering young minds together.

 

Want to deliver a lasting positive impact on people, places, and planet?


Partner with us to deliver impactful, evidence-based entrepreneurship programs that directly support, uplift, and empower students and teachers around Australia.

Uniquely tailored by our specialist Education team to help learners and teams of all ages – from high school and university students through to teaching staff themselves – our programs help develop sought-after skills in creativity, design thinking, and entrepreneurship.

 

Participants are supported in learning valuable skills and how to apply them to work through real-world problems, and collaborate to ideate, innovate, pivot, and scale solutions for impact.

 

But it takes a village to raise an entrepreneur.

 

Mission-based, public-private partnerships, collaborations, and investment have the potential to create and nurture the vibrant ecosystem needed to drive innovation, experimentation, and growth.


Help us help you power Australia’s future leaders today!

 
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Young people (aged 12-24)

By 2030, we aim to enable 1 million young people to find purpose through self-employment and/or acquire and develop transferable skills through entrepreneurial education that embeds industry mentoring to help them become work-ready and set them apart from their peers.

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Peoples

By 2030, we aim to upskill 2,500 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to overcome economic disadvantage through self-employment by delivering culturally safe and sensitive entrepreneurial education, creating a ripple effect where the Aboriginal-owned business employs at least 1-3 more community members.

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Culturally and Linguistically Diverse
Communities (CALD)

By 2030, we aim to facilitate the establishment of 500,000 successful businesses owned by CALD community members through culturally sensitive, tailored entrepreneurship education designed to address economic and social disparities for community empowerment and financial freedom.

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Women and girls

By 2030, we aim to advance the careers of 1 million women and girls through entrepreneurship education, fostering a supportive network for pursuing entrepreneurial endeavours and leadership roles, and promoting gender equity, purpose, and opportunities for personal and professional growth.

 

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I've learned a lot about myself, especially around communicating with other people and that it's okay to get our there and make a difference.
Lilly J.
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Lynn Erkens
Chief Commercial Officer

Lynn Erkens brings a global perspective, and six years of experience at SSE, to her role as Chief Commercial Officer.

 

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