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GYEC

Global Youth
Entrepreneurship
Challenge
  • 2025 Schedule
    (Registration Deadline is March 21, 2025)

The schedule may change due to unforeseen circumstances.

Application period (February 1st to March 21, 2025)

Send your application form and complete your registration by March 21, 2025 (Japan Time).
 

Competition Schedule

 To prevent students from working at midnight, we typically designate five time zones. This ensures that teams from any country can receive the challenge sequentially between approximately 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. in their local time. While there may be slight variations in the chosen time zones from year to year, they typically include East Asia Time (UTC+9), Southwest Asia Time(UTC+5), Eastern European Time (UTC+2), Eastern Standard Time(UTC-5), and Pacific Standard Time(UTC-8).

 The Preliminary Round serves to determine the national teams of countries that have not gone through the selection process in their home countries. If you are NOT from Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia or Turkey where representative teams are selected at national competitions, you must attend this session. Based on the score of this session, up to three teams representing your country will be selected.

Saturday, April 12, 2025 : Preliminary Round  *Held in 5 different time zones

 08:00-Announcement of the Challenge via e-mail
  10:00-Submission of team photos via online
  20:00-Submission of business plan & video presentation via online
  21:00-Submission of questionnaire via online

 During the Preliminary Round, you will participate in a 12-hour competition following the same time schedule as the GYEC on May 25th. If you complete your required submissions before the deadline, you can finish the competition in less than 12 hours.

Thurday, Apirl 24, 2025: Announcement of the results of Preliminary Round (JST)
 11:00 AM We will announce which teams will proceed to the Final Round via e-mail

Saturday, May 17, 2025 : Final Selection *Held in 5 different time zones

  08:00-Announcement of the Challenge via e-mail
  10:00-Submission of team photos via online
  20:00-Submission of business plan & video presentation via online
  21:00-Submission of questionnaire via online

Thursday, June 5, 2024: Announcement of the winner 
  We will announce the winner online. (JST)

By Wednesday, June 11, 2025 : GYEC certificate and Score 
  We will send you the Certificate of Pariticipation and Feedback sheet with your score and comments from the judges via e-mail.

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