With great excitement students from the five Cork Colleges of Further Education exhibited their enterprise projects at the Enabling Entrepreneurship Showcase in Cork City Hall.
The students participated in the 2022/23 Enabling Entrepreneurship in-college programme; developing business ideas, marketing plans and business pitches. Alongside the Showcase exhibition in Cork City Hall the students were vying for the 2023 Enabling Entrepreneurship Awards. Daniel Savage, PWC and Lene Roseaksoy, Aksoy Jewellers joined Aoife McAuliffe, JA Ireland to adjudicate the student submissions and select the student winners of the Best Business Idea, Best Marketing/Pitch, Best Showcase Exhibition and Business of the Year Awards.
JA Ireland partners with Cork ETB in delivering the Enabling Entrepreneurship programme and Helen Raftery, CEO at JA Ireland commenting on the importance of entrepreneurial learning at all stages of education said “Students who benefit from entrepreneurial learning develop business knowledge, skills and attitudes including creativity, initiative, tenacity, teamwork and an understanding of risk whether or not they go on to start a business. These are important skills for all students to acquire and each of the Cork Colleges of Further Education offer the Enabling Entrepreneurship programme to their students to support this learning”.
Cork ETB Director John Fitzgibbon in closing the Showcase said “We at Cork ETB congratulate every student who exhibited at today’s Showcase and I applaud their innovation, creativity and courage in developing and pitching exciting and original projects”.
Douglas Street Campus was represented by Carola Gamarra Gonzales, Digital Media Level 5 student, whose business plan was to build awareness of Cork around Europe and Amercia for tourists and also for potential employees and investors into the county
